The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-15 00:00:00

FELONY.

GUILDHALL, 4.7-- North and lob:
Duy rte cthirged by Mr. Annei, No. t 02, Cheap-.
watchinaker„ With robbing-hi, shop. He stated
that last evening, about seven o'clock, as P.e was at
tea in tti,' parlour, he heard some-person attempting
to open the shopdiior that led into Freeman's-court;
he came into the siiop, 'but Cue person ,A as gone;
he returned to firnsh his tea, but sat in a position to
give him a lull view ot the shop door and window
-fronting Cheapside. He saw a maa open the door
wit li.gieat -Prei..aut ion, put his arm in, and take some-
thing on tie work tuan's bench in the window, and
shut the door ; out, and on the left hurt side
ot the: shop or perceived a man standing,. whost.•
figure 'appeared like the p r.-o. that opt t led. the door;
he yeizeo hold or hint; it Na, the prisoner, Day ; he
did not stem startled, nor. Liu he make. any resist-
ance. The witness perceived himiVef,. anxious to:
put his right nand in ids pmtit t, which he suProsed
was for the purpose of dropping something; he
closely watched t'ito ; the other 'prisoner, North,,
came up, and Day handed hits a watch, and the
case of a *, aifh: The vicriess seized 'tiorth also,
on which they O4.rrtc,truggled to :esrue themselves;
but he made an alarm, and, several persons came to
agsistancr, And ,ecuted thew ; they were brought
into the warehouse ut ;Mess, s. Towers and Sitnp.
son, and in the pass ige leading to it Nprth dropped
the watch and watch-case, which were afterwards •
found. .• •

Officer belonging to the Poultry Compter
produced them, • and Mr. Alines ideotttied the watch
as bell% one that had been fete with him to have
a glass put in ; and the watch-case was his pro-
perty..

Both the pr;soners, in their defence, said they
were innocrnt, and wholly unacquainted with each
'wilco. DI, said, he was a steward to A merchant
shp ; and North, a man about sixty years of age,
Said he was a journeyman hatter,.
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They were tufty committed- fur trial.

• Eow-STR EET.—Yt.sterday Esther Hall was brought
to the above office; by Croker, the Chi:stable, on a
charge 0,1 pot-stealing.

It appeared by the statement of- John Greatorex,
Of the Adam and.'Eve public-house, Tottenham-
cuurt-road, that prisobier last night was deJected in
his premises with a new pint peWter-pot, which
was pioduced ; and the deponent smearing that
it was his property, the prisoner was cointnit-
trd.

Jane Brown was brought up from St. Clement's

Watch-l~u~l,e,

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Will,dm Franck,. of the Edinburgh Castle, Strand,
depos,:d; that last nisht, about 1 i o'clock; the pri-
soner came into his house, and had hafta pint of neer
at the bar, and in about live Ktirrutes afterwards she
was brr;ught back by the'witness, John Cape', the
watchman, who'sbewect him the tin box now pro-
duced, .w;:ieo :Cipel said he bad wand upon the
prisoner, and.which. is his, Mr. Francis's., property,
and was bit% On the bar a shot! time before the pri-
soner ca 44 e.. The watchman alsotit.posed that he
saw the prisoner tome out of the houses with thC:
box, and that- she ran up L:ttie Druq-lane into a
court, and concral,:,-,d hersel in the pity of a house
there, from wh6itCe tit,. to, I, tier 'into ,custody with
the box in her pos!,e:+sion.—Cointnit led.

Il itliam !hike, 'tie driver ofd hackney coach, No.
749, 'was summoned before the Sitting Magistrate,
by Mr. itobeit Bigland, of the -Heralu's Office, on
a chalge of rxtoriing more than ms tare.
_B. stated, that on the 9.h Instant, at the
P7ough and Harrow, Hammersmith, Ibe found
Nil...lke with the hackney coach, No. 749, whom he
asked to take him to town, which he said he would
do, if he would give him half-a-guinea, which he
(Mr. Bigland) agreed to, and got into the coach; but
the defendant refused to set him down, without pay-
ing him halla-guinea beture he got out of the
coach. Cunvuded in .the penalty of 40s.
Yesterday John Barnett and James Kingston,who
had: been detained on suspicion of stealing le. d,
were again brought up, They urged in their de7
fence, That it is usual to bring the cuttings of lead
home from the places they work at.-Tgey were
tined 4os. fur the misdeal auto.