The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-25 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday having been appointed for resuming the investigs, •
tion against several individuals charged with receiving hap., thd
property of 3lessrs. Price and Thore+, hop.faetors, knowing :
them to have been stolen, this office was crowded by parties in,
terested in the proceedings.
Mr. Thesiger attended for the prosecution, which we order,
stood was instituted by the majority of the jli,p_raetors
I ing in Southwark, and Mr. A odreivs, on behaft of the defend•
ants ~whose names are as follows :*-,,Tarles flaw, .1.7..ph. Nei
son, James Maynard, Ja tars alit' ,Jots;: Xenia:, all
of whom appeared to be rtspeetable men. The principal
evidence against the defent"anta is that of a tnan molted ruy,
who was some time al4o warehouseman and foreman in the
employment of .31easra Price, who considered him 44 confithm.,
tial and taunt-worthy person, until discoveoics WOre made which
ultimately proved that their good opinion of. him was 4.founded
in error. Considerable quantities of hops were missing front the
► warehouse of the firin to Wititeer4",is,oreet, and also in Pea..
eross.street, Southwark, over which had the complete eon.
troul. Upon the discovery of the deficiencies, lie was, xiispeeted.
and ultimately, together with a man named Simmons who was
icharged as the receiver, committed for trial to the last 'Kit.a.,,ituo
assizes, fur stealing the hops. Upon that °erasion Foy WillS46,
quitted, but Simmons, the..reeelver, was found guilty„ and sem:
tented to be transported. Subsequent to the trial, the individual
who had a narrow escape of convietion,,lihe infornistion to'his
former employers, by way of making reparation for the injuries
he had committed upon their property, against tint present de•
fetalants, all of whom he charged, tow the receivers of hops,
knowing them to have been' stolen.
The evidence against Nelson, one of the parties impli-
cated in the charge, was in nubstanee as t(tllowl :—Puy
stated, that he was acquainted with the defendant, Wile teas
a ; that in a conversation with that individual, at
tin Talbot Inn, he said, " Foy. if you furnish me with
hops, I will furnish you with money." Foy ~iltnitted that
he ;Treed to the proposal, and forthwith sent him a pcicket
of hops worth at that period 104, fOr which he Foy )-only
`receiveXtii. The hops, he acknowledged, V/krf: the property
of his employers, who tlid not authorize bun to dispose of any.
Foy added, that the defendant was aware that the transaction
was not sanctioned by the Messrs. Price, and therefore must
have known then he
,W 3% receiving stolen property. The. evi.
dente Foy was stren,„,,,,theticd by that of it witness named
Jones, Who pined that he carried hps, mark- 1" route and
Cu." by order of I'oy, to the delentlanes premists, airti 3tr.
Thonma, one of the partners in the: firni,, stated, that aeyeral
pockets of hops, marked as above, were stolen from their ware.
house in Redeross-eross.
After a letigthenell discussion between the Counsel engaged
on both rides, in which Mr. Andrews contended that the evi-
denee-of such a character as Foy should not be received in any
court of justice, the magistrates at length decided that the case
aainst the defendant was sufficiently tstablished. to warrant
their sending hint before a jury fur purchasing the hops, know-
ing them to have bten stolen.
The defendant was then held to bail, himself' in theism of
WO/. anti two sureties of 60/. each, to answer the charge at
the next assioes.

The next case gone into Was against the d efendanf 'Wakelin.
Foy, upon being examined, after havii.g stated that he was, not
authorized to dispose of any of his employer's property, deposed
that he was also acquainted with Wakelin, whom he had some •
tratwictions with in the month of March, last year, when that
perscn purchased from him one poeket of hops, marked
" Levett and Co. ;" for which he 'gitVe Min (witness) .Five
Pounds. Their plac,i of meeting was at the Talbot, and also; t
the British Liun public.hotise. where matters were arranged
tween them: Foy added, that the defendant truest have betttcon.
viheed, at the time he bought the said hops, shut they were riot his
(Foy's) to dispose of., and that the firm did nut authorize their
hops to be sold for half the money that they were worth ; and
another circumstance, ho added,, which proved ' dud the
fendant must have known be was receiving hops out of the
premises without the authority of the owners Walli that the two
pockets which were sold to him for WI. were sent to hirn ait
unseasonable hours.
Jones, the, porter, proved that he:carried the pocket of hops
to the defendant's premixes, and Alt Thomas stated that,mc.ve.,
rid pockets of hops marked us above were missing froth their
stock. •
Foy, was here examined by 41r- Ahdrews, and in reply to
the itacstions put to him, admitted that he had sold his em-
ploy,rs' hops to six or ~.even indivitlit his, without their sanction
'or kc owledge ; that. he was tried at the late Kingston Assizes
for stealing the hops, MA acquitted ; and that the receiver Sim-
mons, who had purchased them front him,' was convicted and
sentenced to transportation..
Air. Andrews, as in the previous ease, submitted that surely
the magistrates would not hold men to bail upon the evidence
of such a man 10 Foy,, whose evidence could not be believed
upon oath.
The Magistrates, however, observed, that the case against
Wakeiin ryasequally strong as the one that preceded,d, and
therefore they should deal with it precisely in the same man,
her, anti send it before a jury.
The examination of the charges against the other defliiidtint
was postponed until next Tuesotty.

V F I lEE: WousAO:
procored a healthy fall grown fowl, a short I iece of a poisoned
blow pipe arro'c was broken otr, and up into its thigh, as
near as tmotible betwixt the hkin and the flesh, in ordar, that
might not l,eincoinmogied by the wound. For the first cc in
Wr.lked a' en , walked very s(ow)y,', and did not lippeaY the
least tie,ino ed. During the seeotal 31111111te 'it stood *tilt, aid be-
gan to peek :he grooriti t. and ere anether.lia&cl.nnted,'
fretittett t y opened and 311,4 t 'l'ice tail hartttnwdropv,
and the wing-s ;:tmost totn-ned the grolind. liy the term hattip,il
or the third ntinitte. it had 43t down, searee ablo- Ile rapport
its hesd, wtiictc t r ieel .;t1441 then recover*Litw,ilerOlidlf4ll
nodded vg:tin. r lower t,very
traveller slurnheriag• in an ereet'liontiotif tifeinflitaor,u'd'otiserniatt cap4i
"Pen "d shut. Th, tOurtii TninotoltrOutittlt on Oenvultinni,
end lite and tbe ti:'th terminatettiMetAlgr. liesh,Or .the •
k tut le'r4t3, 'it k6il,}Y eitirbyP‘itit4;"g. un or knife.--
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(11Taterton's Wandering's.)