The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-31 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, A UQ. 30.

John Smith and Hannah Cqlfin were indicted for felo-
niously stealing from the person of James Grigg, a watch,
money, and other articles, value 61., his property, and

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James Coleman, as an accessory after the fact.
From the peculiar situation of the prisoner Coleman,
this case excited considerable interest, and there appeared

an additiOnal number of Magistrates on the Bench to
wit-
ness the investigation.
The first witness called was James Grigg, the prose-
cutor, He stated that on the 20th of this month (August),
he had occasion to go down to the Kent-rOacl on some
pressin6 business, when he met with some friends who in-
vited hun to take something to drink. He accepted their
invitation, and frequently repeated his libation until he got

intoxicated, until 'indeed he.was quite drunk.
Cu AIRSI A N.—Perhaps you were so drunk, that, you re-
collect very little about this alleged robbery ?
Witness (with a great portion of sang froid.)—l was
not so very drunk, but I recollect going into Church-street,
and there I got robbed.
CHAIRMAN.—DO you know in what part of Church-
street you got robbed ?
Witness—l believe it was under the gateway ; at least
tlu told me so.
CitslitSlAN.—llinder what gateway ?
Witness.—Under a gateway near St. George's Church,
in the %rough:
CHAIRMAN—BiIt.if you were as drunk as you thus can-
didly confess you were, how could you know that the
prisoners at the bar were the persons who robbed you ?
Witness—Oh ! but I was not so drunk but Icould
swear to the prisoners.
Cll.4.lltAtAN—Wit.s there any one present or near to you
who could positively swear to the transaction, or who
could identify the prisoners at the bar; or either of them;
as the persons concerned in the robbery ?
Witness-0 yes, Mrs. Richardson saw the whole
transaction. =
Richardson presenting herself)—
Then be good enoUgh, Mrs. Richardson, to place yourself
in the witness-box.

M. Richardson stated, that
.she was going to bed oh
Sunday night, the 20th of August, at about 11 o'clock,
when she heard a repeated cry of " Help, help;" and some
one swearing dreadfully. She. went down stairs and
opened the back door, and saw two men and a woman
in the middle 'of the road. She had every reason to be-.
lieve that the prisoners at the bar, Smith and Caflin, were
of the party, and that they had got the third person, the
prosecutor, on the ground, in the middle of the road.--,
The woman was holding the latter up. She stood for
some moments, and then looked in the prosee-utor's face.
The female prisoner seemed
.to have her hand in his
breeches pocket. Witness interfered, and eipostulated
with them on robbing the man, us she supposed they were
doing, when the female prisoner, pushing her away, ,said,
" it was nothing to her, it was her brother, and she had a
right to do as she liked." Witness said she was sure it
was not so, and endeavoured again, unsuccessfully, to ex-
tricate him from her. They then pulled him up, by the
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head and neck, towards her place, and she said the
shotild not bring him in there. The male prisoner Smith,
at that time, had one of his hands in each of the proseeu-
toes pockets, On seeing this, she (witness) called out
for the " watchman," and on her repeating the cry, they
both ran away, leaving the prosecutor in his helpless
situation.
Charles Kirby, a constable of St. George's, Southwark,
sworn.—He saw the prosecutor in the early part of the
evening in a very drunken state, in company with the pri-
soners. At about eleven o'cloCk at night, he was roused
from his,bed, by a:Violent knocking, and an equally vio-
lent 'announcement that a Man had been robbeli On hear-
ing the deicription of the man so robbed, be said be knew
him, and hoped to be able to meet with the persons whom
he suspected. , In the course of the night he fell in with
the female prisoner, and took her into custody. On
searching her, he found on her a gold seal, a ring,.and
key. He asked her where she obtained them from, and
she said she-got them from Smith. Tie kept her in cus-
tody, but was not enabled to find Smith till the next
morning.
Richard Poele, an officer of Union-ball, produced a sil-
ver watch, which he received from the prosecutor's mo-
ther, who stated that she had received it from Coleman.
Martha Grigg, the prosecutor's mother, Sworn.--. The
prisoner Coleman brought the watch -to •me at half-past
seven o'eloelt on Monday morning last. He had been
with me several times 'previonsly to endeavour to settle
this Matter. He came first on Thursday last, and spoke
of my son's robbery,: He came next morning, and said
that he thought he could get the property beck if my son
would keep out of the way, and not prosecute, so as to
let his sister oil; for he was afraid she was guilty of having
assisted in stealing the watch. She told him that she
could say nothing about it, as her son had lost his things,
and it was his business to look to them. Coleman begged
that her son would not trouble himself about the matter;
' they might easily manage it ; he, Co
Irmo!, would take
her son to Eghtun races, and if he-wow consent to stop
out of the way till -Saturday, be would find the watch and
pay him for all lie had lost. • Witness asked him about
the hut and other things'' which her sMi had lost, and he
*aid that 'what' he could- hot find he would replace. 0"
Saturday night he tame again, and on Sunday morning ho