The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-08 00:00:00

SeyOND DAY.-11IVESDAY, TJUSE,7.

Merril Nolloy was indiCled for stealing, Bank
notes of the value of 401. and 32 guineas, the pro-
perty of Eliza Martin, on the igtn of April; in her
dwelling-houae, in Burr-street, St. James's.
The prosecutrix was a fiir Cypriati, and the pri-
soner a gentlenL:n%, `;room, the L'ici4co of the fair
damsel ; and die money in' oestion wAs stolen from
her eseriloir, during her absence at a love feast, in
Matlhorough-street, she aiserted, by the prisoner,
who had free ingress and egrejs to her house during
her abseLce, and who reniiiined in the house on the
night of the robbery, :while the reposed in the amid
of an Hibernian admino, who successfully wooed
her at a house in Aiarloorough-street, and returned
home with her.

There was a good deal of prevarication, howoer,
in the testimony of the prosecutrix, and the Jury,
nisei t very able Comment oil the evidence by Baton
GRAHAM, acquitted the prisoner. ".
James Butler stood indided tor ,having assaulted
Thomas Dukes, on the night of the sth Deeeru-
,ber, on. the King's highway, puffing him in tear,
and taking from his person twenty-five shillings, a
gold ring, and a silk handkerchief.
The prosecutor stated that he was.stantting in the
Haymarket on the bight mentiooed in the indidt.
ment, conversing whit n young woman, When
some person came up, struck tutu a violent blow- on
the face, and knocked him down. He was deprived
of Isis senses for wale time, and on recoreving,
found his pockets turned inside out, and his pro-
perty taken away..
,He was a little intoxicated, and
had no recollettion of the prisoner.

trances Adams, the girl with whom the prose=
tutor, had been talking, &posed, that while she was
speaking with the prosecutor, she saN the prisoner
come towards them and strike Dukes on the head,
Who immediately MI: She stool ed to assist him,
and While in the ad of bending over h:m, she was
herself cut with some sharp instrument across her
forehead, In consequence of which she lost a great
deal of blood,. and was render&'d senseless. ,:She
could not swear that the prisoner robbed •Mt.
Dukes, nor- could she swear that it was be who
struck, h&.

James Bligh, one of the Officers of Quaen-square
PoLce Office, staved he ha I another charge against
the prisoner, and in consequence of information lie
received, he .apprehended him at Banbury ; and on
bringing him to town, the witness Adams identi-
fied trim as the person who assaulted Dukes. She
could not be mistaken in his persnn, as she had
known him nearly three years, and saw tutu almost
every 'night preceding the robbery.
Three witness, s were Caged on behalf of the pri-
soner, wild depoSed, that in a conversation they
had with Frances Adams, on Monday night last,
she declared, as already stated, that she could not
swear that .the prisoner robbed Dukes; or that be
cut her; hut that he knocked down Dukes, hoKE.
ever, she was clear.

The' Learned Judge, Baron GRAILS:I7, summed up
the evidence with great preciSion, and adverted with
much perspicuity to the singular consistency of the
evidence of Frances Adams, throughout the whole
of her testimony, which he conceived, entitled her
to credit. He left the Jury.,•howevef, fo ditiw their
own conclusions, riccording to their view ot the
circumstances of the case. The Jury u ea 6 not per-
fectly satisfied of his guilt, and returned a verist
of--.4equittal. •
John Green was indicief for wilfully and mai:-
ciously shooting at Jane Woodford, with a pistol
loaded with a ball and powder, and wounding her
so that her life was thereby endangered.
Jane Woodford stated, that she was a servant to
Mr. Manton, of Harrow-Hill Com Mon, and that
the prisoner was a gardener in the same •amily. On
the 7th of May, between nine and ten o'clock in the
evening, she was in company with the prisoner,
they only being -in 'Vie house; the prisoner asked
her if she was going to bed ? She replied, she was
not going to bed until the washerwomen who were
coming had arrived. The prisoner said, if she did
sit there, she should sit without a fire. He-then
raked the fire out. Witness went towards the
kitchen -door, and the 'prisoner pulled her back;
at that ,moment the washerwomen rang at the
gate; ,he went to the gate, , using at the
time very abusive language, and would not let
the women in. Witness wanted to let them
in herself; but the peisoner gave her a blow and sent
her back, and insisted that she should not ..admit
them. She then went and unbarred one of the
kitchen windows and called to the women who were
outside not to go, or she should be killed. The pri-
soner re-barred the 'window, and while he vt as in
that nal, she admitted the women. When she re-
turned there teas ..no—candle,, and she desired the
women to wait until,shc went to her, own room and
struck a light. She returned with a candle, whicli
theprisoner extingusihed. Ste then went up and
struck a second light, leaving a candle burning in
her own room, and bringing one down in her hand;
she also lOcked her room-door. He put the second
light out ; but having brought the tinder-box down
in her hand, site struck a light a third time, which
he alSo endeavoured to extingnish, hut without
success. He then struck the witness several blows,
and 'nsisted on her going up stairs, which site refus-
ed ; he endeavoured to force her up, but she re-
sisted,' wring this time.heused the Most oppro-
brioui language, and insisted that the washerwomen
should leaVe the house. Finding be could not at-
tain his purpoSes, he biought three large dogs from
the yard, and at that moment one ot the women
went tor assistance; 'Witness and the other
women in the kitchen. The prisoner immediately
threw witness doWn, and used her very ill, striking
her, and observing, that the old Woman gone out
should keep tan ; and went ty bolt the tioor after
her. While he was gone for that purpose, witness
concealed herself in an out-house, and'when she
saw 'the prisoner return to the dwelling-hutt,e, she
went out, in Older to let the woman _ in v‘ hen site
returned. As she was going across the court for
that purpose, she saw the prisoner go into a closet
in her sleeping-room, in which arms were kept.
'On his coming out, she went to meet the • wuntAn
that was gone for a,sistaoce, st ith whom, and a wan .
who aceomi.ankd her (Anthony Dirt 111:9 she •re-
t iiroed to tile house, and on entering the kitchen,

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