The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-13 00:00:00

OLDBAILEY-(THIS DAY.)

• OLD COURT.
John Price, aged 19, was' indicted for stealieg a
4tooch and other valuable. articles, on the 12th of
Angust, the property of henry Blake.--Guilty of
,tealing below the value of .5/.
John
.MURDER.
Osten, aged 44, was charged, on the Co-
toner's inquisition, with the wilful murder •of his
!1), John Costen, aged about nine years, by striking
him on the head with a pint pewter pot, on the 15th
August last. The indictment charged him merely
*hit the manslaughter ; other counts named the de-
!eased as John Causton.
Sarah Ewell, of No. 5, Parson's-court, Islington,
stated that she was at Mr. Sinnott's, in Coppice-
SOW, Clerkenwell on a Friday in August; it was
,Pre .weeks ago yesterday; she was then sifting.
•7* prisoner, ,the Costen, was also there at
aim
14 o'clock la afternoon ; knew his son Willi
;13sten, who was alio there; he was about 10 years
°_`!l. The latter had a pint pewter pot in his hand,
silt.h tea in it. The father asked for some tea, and
oe boy
bee gave
, him the pot and laughed. They had
hen w°llting there 'all the afternoon, and witness
rd no words bet Ween them, Did not know what
boy was laughing at, unless it was about the
di
eetl The father threw the pot at the boy
didrY he received it. Saw the pot fly, but
not see him throw it. He was about
14 Yards from his son, when she saw the
utter fall from the blow. Did not know if there
w
t4siany tea in the pot at the time the boy handed it
otio hs father. 'When the boy fell, the father jumped
the dust-hill where he was sitting, and picked
slrnh 111). - He took him some distance off, and fetched
tilandkeychief which he left on the dust-hill. Wit-
-1 tiled Went away, leaving both of them there.
scitne blood coming from the side of the boy's
47,d...The. father seemed very sorry, but witness
1.4 not heat him say any thing. He was always a
'hid father to the boy before-that.
tebecca Flint at. Mr . Sinnott's yard on the
AL was •
t've day. The boy was taking stuff away for his
.4ther..
i N. witness corroborated the testimony of the
Ltkee one, and added, that when the boy laughed,
4 father said that if he laughed at him (the
ICher) he would throw the pot at him. After the
12°11er had thrown the pot, he tied up the boy's
ler
'4(ld with his handkerchief, and led.him out of the 1
.

o„%ve Ashley stated, that the boy drank the tea
't of .the pot before he gave the pot to his father,
akt
t„ ihiughed at him. His father never spoke a word
b— aim before he threw the pot. He cried very
een about his son all the next day. He had always
boy
a god father. hen the pris
Ilway,o he took him to'
the doctor'soner took the.
•Ray..rsn• Harwood Lawrence, apothecary, No. 2,
treet,, Clerkenwell, remembers the boy being
',hi:ought to him by the prisoner on the 15th of Aug.
1:,"e blow had fractured the skull, and the wound
nesshied profusely, the brain protruding from it. Wit-
advised the prisoner to take the bey to the
ospitalafter he bad dressed his head.
41.50ner left the boy in witness's shop for a few
inutes, and then took him on his back to the hos-

John Norman Weeks, house-surgeon of St. Bar-
olotnew's Hospital, stated that the deceased was
brought in on Friday, the 15th of August. His
)361111 was extensively fractured and driven in on the
tilins• The wound above the right ear was about
three inches long. - Part of the brain was exposed.
Attended the boy till the 21st of August, when he
1111 in the Hospital. The head has been opened
!tire death. The brain was in a state of suppura-
-I,la froM the inflammation caused by. the blow.—
Re round edge of a pewter pot might have inflicted
'44 a blow. Death ensued from the suppuration.
tk Wm. Kirby,officer of Hatton-garden, apprehended
,prisoner on the Coroner's warrant in Mr. Sin-
kt tt dust-yard. When prisoner saw witness, the
:li('saki he knew what witness wanted, and went
tth hint -very quietly, and appeared very much hurt
What. had happened.
Olenjamin Lidbetter, the City Marshal, proved that
Cr"tttholomew Hospital was in the city of London.
he prisoner stated, in defence, that he asked'the
''ll9‘)" for some cold tea; the boy laughed at him, and
binythe pot, after having drank all the tea ; he
sli going to hand the pot back to the boy, but it
tkrd from his hand ; the boy ttied to move away
*IP it; and • fell with his head on a sharp stone,
cut his head in the manner described.
ohms Sinnott, dust-eontractOr, gave the prisoner
le"cellent character for humanity for the last 12
kt; ditring which he had worked for witness.
1,4111 ad been one of the most humane men in wit-
-4 4 employ, even to the horses. The deceased
,11titteious lad, and under very little control.
litiAttother witness gave him a good character for
rnsratty.
tiiarall Ewell recalled, and examined by the COURT,
tidal at there were many stones lying about in the
Ilk,' Yard. When the boy fell, he pitched his face
ot
ohe. 11
Witness believes, was taken to the prisoner's
Itutbeeca Flint recalled—Had also seen stones there.
th:se toAshley recalled—The boy fell with his face
il'elalleeks recalled—The weight of the boy
liket W
ilg on a stone would not of itself have been
Yto have produced so deep a wound. It was
hible if he were knocked down by a pint pot and
4,„. en upon a stone, but it was not probable. It
1,411 depend on which side of his head was towards
r,rsther when he was struck.
hot'lle of the witnesses here said, that when the
; *truck the boy, the back of his head was towards
father.
thiqr• Weeks—By a Juror—There appeared to be
one blow received on any part of the head.
tikrtJustice LITTLEDALE summed up the evidence,
ipt,ternarked that no malice appeared to have existed
• father towards the boy, as the prisoner threw
he!.the- only thing which appeared to have given
t%suit or provocation, instead of taking or fetch-
t:pL4 stone or other weapon. There appeared a dis-
a-nt):ry in the evidence, inasmuch as the three
peen said they believed that the occurrence took
44
on yesterday three weeks ; while the two sur-
oge~l swore positively that the boy was taken to
kft,t;f them at his shop, and the other at the
htkt on Friday, the 15th, a week before the time
tied by the women, and died a day before the
./s't lithe evidence of the women were true, it
'4"to,
weal on
that the child, which, died at the
On the 21st, could have been the same
calt-",_was wounded the day afterwards, and in that
sesii,ue indictment must fail, as no one had proved
host the father at the hospital. The surgeons,
only Ler, had sworn positively, while the woman
itity'r-lizied us to the date, and he trusted that the
IniedaWsauld have but little trouble in making up their
he on that subject.
turned Jury deliberated for a few minutes, and re-
ligoter ( nisi Verdict of " Not Guilty" on the Coroner's
for wilful murder, but " Guilty" of man-
i thp indjctment,

NEW COURT.
RI3IIF.RY OF THE WARWICK NAIL.
W
sManz 17yse was indicted for feloniously l'eceiv-
vk several
one-pound notes of the iitratford-tipon-
4'pjrin.bank, he well knowing the same to have been
e.
II 14r, 13110DERIcri and Mr. RYLAND conducted the
cI.W 11!P Prosecution, and the Hon. Mr. L.,he
v kl
his,:trt. Was - Ul-Atiitsw.i appcued for the prisoner. Th
e
r tried for receiving the
ntes, because
~ I? to the fact of his not beim, seen about the
0
it7tycle4 at the time of the robbery, and other circum-
-1,,,,,.. ". there wa6 reason to believe that IL! was not
kil_
agitalliirryt that part of the transaction.
that
deposed that lie is clerk to Sir
;, Or ly rine arid CO. They were agents to Messrs. ,
f, the and Co., who issued 51. and lot. notes
,11Q Stratford and several other banks. The 10/.
N were made payable at Messrs, Glynn find 1

. .
Co.'s. Witness had to count -the notes presented
for payment, and to sort them out. He marked the
number of each on the back of the outside note.
ON the 26th of October, 1827, there were paid into
the banking-house thirty-seven 10/. notes of the
Stratford bank, and thirty-nine 51. notes of the
same bank. On the Ist of l\ovemher there were
5341. worth of the prosecutors' notes received. OR
the 19th 634/., and on the 20th 1,152/. Amongst
these were some 1/. notes, and others were received
previously to the amount of 19,500/.
Henry Wellington, another clerk of the banking-
house of Messrs. Glynn, and Co. deposed to receiv-
ing certain notes produced when paid into the bank
on the 20th November.
Cross-examined.---The placard issued after the
robbery,
,promised to give the numbers of the notes
issued in a subsequent bill, but in the subsequent
bill no numbers of one pound notes were given.
They did not take the number Of the ones because
they were not properly payable at their house.
Mr. Holloway, another clerk to Messrs. Glynn,
_ _ _

and Co. corrobo-rated the testimony of Mr. Pargiter,
and described the notes paid into their bank, prior
to the 20th of November, which notes he gave to
Mr. Greenway.
Cross-examined by Mr. LAW.—The notes which
were returned by Messrs. Glynn and Co. to the
Warwick bank, were so returned for the purpose of
being again sent into circulation, and it was the case
that notes were thus circulated with Messrs. Glynn
and Co's. marks upon them.
Re-examined.---No one pound notes in black ink
were paid by Messrs. Glynn and Co. after the date
of the robbery.
Mr. R. Greenway deposed, that he is a partner in
the house of Whitehead and Co. On the 21st of ,
November, he received a' parcel from the clerk of
Messrs. Glynn and Co„ it was a blue bag. He was
staying at Furniial's Inn Coffee-house, to which
place he took the bag. Had taken his place to
go to Warwick by that night's mail. Took a
parcel, containing sovereigns, out of the hag.
In the evening both bags were brought down
stairs, and a portmanteau. The porter took
the portmanteau a little before eight the coach
came to the door. Witness directed the
porter to take the bags and put them in the seat of
the coach; he did so, and witness followed close to
the coach door. A person inside the coach opened
the door, and witness directed the porter to get
in, and put the bags in the seat. He appeared to
raise the bags, and deposit them on the coach floor.
At that moment a person from the back part of the
coach ran against witness, and when he recovered
the shock, he observed the porter putting the bag
with the sovereigns into the coach seat. 'Witness
observed to him that he had not put the blue bag in
the seat. He appeared to search the coach for it,
and declared that it was missing. Witness examined
the coach, in which there was a woman. Saw next
morning a person, who was introduced to him us the
person who ran against him, but it was not the pri-
soner. There was nobody there but the porter and
the woman. The bag was missing, and people then
collected.

Cross-examined.—Witness then took every means
to make the circumstance known to the public, and
a reward of 200/. was offered. The bills stated no
one pound notes, because they had not the numbers
of the ones. No other one pound notes of the Strat-
ford bank were afterwards coined in black ink.
There is no mark upon the notes produced which
could inform a stranger that they are not notes pro-
perly in circulation. There are now about 400/. of
these black one pOund notes properly in► circulation.
There w,s:4'about 12,000/., and since the robbery no
one pound black notes have been issued. The Bank
has recovered about 19,0001. of the notes stolen, but
none of the one pound notes were recovered.
Robert Dobson, a book-keeper to Messrs. Water-
house, knows the prisoner. Is in the habit of chewy-
ing country notes for persons that he knows, and
charges them a shilling in the pound. On the sth
July the prisoner brought him five one-pound notes
to be changed. Witness told him that he would
tell him on the following Tuesday whether he
would cash them or not. He called en the Tuesday
and witness cashed. them. The two notes produced
are two of these which witness cashed for the pri-
soner. A fortnight afterwards the two notes pro-
duced were returned to him. On the evening of
the 15th .Tuly the prisoner brought ten more IL
hates, when witness said if he called on the Thursday
following he would be able to cash them. The
prisoner said, " If these notes pass all right, I can
put you in the way of several more." Witness sent
the notes to Glynn and Co., and, in consequence of
the answer he there got, he spoke to Gardiner, the
police-officer. The witness here identified one of
the ten notes, upon which there was an indorsement
at the corner.

The proprietor of the Bolt in Tun deposed to re-
ceiving six Stratford-upon-Avon notes from his book-
keeper (Adams), which he kept in his iron chest
until after the examination of the prisoner at Bow-
street, when he gave them to Gardiner. The notes
produced are the same which he received from
Adams. Two of these notes were the same number
as two of those which had been given loy the clerk of
Messrs. Glynn and Co. to Mr. Greenway, on the
(lay of the robbery, and which had been subsequently
stolen.

Richard Gardiner deposed that the six notes pro•
duced were those which he bad received from Dob-
son. Witness searched the prisoner, but found nothing
on him.

A former conviction of the prisoner for being at
large in Greenwich after the sentence of transporta-
tion had been passed on him, was read, from which
it appeared that he was sentenced to transportation
at Hertford, and on being subsequently found at
large, he was convicted at Maidstone, and sentenced
to death, but received his Majesty's pardon, on con-
dition that he should be transported for life to New
South Wales.

The prisoner, in his defence, merely protested his
innocence.
Mr. Justice GAZELEE charged the Jury at con-
tiderable length, who returned a verdict of" Guilty."

DOVER, SEPT. .12.—Mr. GREEN and Mr.
PEARNE, who ascended in the balloon from this place on
Wednesday, landed safely in a field between Knowlton, the
seat of G. H. D'Arrx, Esq., and Hamden, the seat of 11.
W. HARVEY, Esq., near Eastry. The wind was propel-
ling the balloon rapidly towards the sea, and the aeronauts
found it necessary to lower themselves earlier than they
had intended. They returned to Dover late in the evening
and Mr. GREEN still remains here anxiously looking out
for a good opportunity to cross to France.
EcoNomY.—We have just been informed
that a happy couple have delayed christening five of tbeir
children till the appearance (which is near approaching) of
the sixth, for the purpose of claiming some reduction in
the batch..—Berke

A man and woman were prevented joining in
n
d of the woman,, tiiethhoelyimpbalnedassaonEt at when
minattirmimoinnoy, at , Loughborough, last week,
by hen at the church door, of
fo
supposed dead, being still
Stockport Advertiser.
a rmer hus
liv ba
among the ing.—
THE HARVEST.--We are h
with to state
better
sitwt-erith a few ex-
that the harvest in this neighbourhood
ceptions, completed, and in a state far than might
have been anticipated, considering the wet summer we have
experienced.—Becks Chronicle.

The new bridge over the Carron, at Denny,
is now open for the use of the public. It is a handsome
and substantial structure, reflecting much credit on the
taste of the projector and the skill of the undertaker.._.
Edinburgh Evening Courant.

A violent storm of rain, accompanied with
rem•irkably loud thunder and vivid lightning, passed over
a large district of country around Stamford on Tuesday
morning, about four o'clock. A tire-ball fell in beeping
Fen, and set fire to a corn-stack, but the rain speedily ex-
tinguished it. Three stacks of wheat belonging to a
farmer in Postland, were entirely consumed, which, we
are sorry to say, were uninsured. Weston church, near
Spalding, was also injured; and at Coats, near Whit.le-
sea, upwards of eighty lives were lost !—but they were
those of sparrows, which had taken roost upon a tree for
the night, and %vele there struck dead by the livlitning.—
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