The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-25 00:00:00

CROWN COURT.

John Filmer,was indicted for feloniously kill rig
and stealing two sheep, on the 20th of November,
in the parish cf Little Mongehap, the property of
Thomas Davis, a farmer in the neighbourhood of
Deal.

Mr, ADOLPHUS conducted the proseention.
appeared !hat the servants of the prosecutor had
safely penned up his sheep on the night of the
20th of ,November, and next rooming the sheep
in question were missing. 'Suspicion afierwards
fell upon the prisoner ; his house was searched,
the skins, of the sheep were found. and great 'part
of the flesh-cut up and preserved in pickle.•
The facts were clearly msde out, and the Jury
found the vrisnuer Guilty—Death.

•
Mercer Ludgaler, a young Inv) of genteel ap-
pearat►ce, was indicted for stealing, on the 6th of
March, at Maidstone, a horse, value 801., the
property of John Arckoll.
Mr. .13sneris conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. D. -PoLLocK the defence. . 3 . .

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It appeared. 01 evidence tliert: the prosecutor's
'groom had. fastened tip'the horse in question in
I is mast, is stable on the night of the 6th of
Match:, N,:xt morning the horse WAS missing,
,onl Mr. Arckoll went to Smithfield, and the very
same day he. saw his horse in the .pwsession of
a horse-dealer, named Dawson,. who, upon being,
asked how he became possessed of it, said that be
harl purchased it of the prisoner for 10/, The pri-
soner w-.s after Wards 'apprehended, and he Vo-
luntarily confessed that :he h‘td broken open the
nr.•secotor's stable, anti taken the horse away.

The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended
in to mercy.

DESPERATE OUTRAGE, &

Monday might last, at a late hour, as Mr*l34-
niel Smith,, of 'murk•street, Bethnal Geen,'"ae-
companied by his son and nephew, of S:rpney.
were ,passing by the Red Lion public,hOuso, in
Whitechapel-road, a gang of 30 or 40 villains
rushed on them, and began to ill use and' at,
tempt to rob them. The party attacked, being
aware of their intention, made a desperate resist-
ance ; Mr, Smith, jun. 'collared one villain, and
kept him safe till the watchmen came up. In a
short time the whole of the watchmen of the ad-

jacent beats came to the spot ; and on proceed-
ing with the villain in custody towards the watch-
house, some (Mims being taken into custody;
their gang exclaimed, " My boys, rescue,
rescue !" on whick a numerous body rushed On
tire watchman, and ma►ie a general .attack with
sticks, bludgeons, and weapons of-every descrip-
tion. Those without weapons of offence wrest-
ed the patroles cutlasses and stii:lts from them,
and laid upon them in a most unmerciful mariner.

The place .was in the utmost confusion.; and the
road was entirely illed with watchmen and thieves
fighting. %Villiers Rogers, nephew ofMti. Sink
in assisting his cousin off the ground, received a
most tremendous blow of a bludgeon on tlielettd,
arid he was left on the ground apparently dead.
Mr. Smith, senior, .was very much injured on his
head and bply, as likewise his son, and being
.taken to a' surgeon', bad their wounds dressed,
.and were conveyed home in a coach, in:a hopeless
..condition. A matchman named Burford had his
skull fractured from a blow of a- bludgeon, in a'
terrible manner, and received othier. cuts:.o 'his
body, &c. He &vas conveyed to the•Lonidon.Hos-
pit al in. a lifeless COndition.. Another_ watchman,
named Rove, was likewise dreadfully lacerated,
cud fractured the skull, and ilea in a dangerous
condition. Me villain taken by Mr. Smith,- juu.
and given in custody, was safely Cake') to the
tvacchhouse, and in the morning '(yesterday) he
was brought before, the 'Magistrates at LoMbeth-
su ect. Messrs. Smith,, sea. and inn., W. Rogers,
and several vatchmen and others, 'attended at the
office. They all appeared very weak
_horn the
loss of blo«1, haying, their heads hound up, &c.
exhibiting narks of the almost yioletite.-The
prisoner was fully committed to Newg,' ate to take
lets trial.

110/313ER1' OP LORD ELLRNBOROt7GH'S PREMISES.
Wethesday night some villains dia'gged• the
fine piece of water belonging to Lord ELLENEO,.
ROUGH, at Rochampton, arid carried off nearly
the whole stock of tench and carp. The net used
for the put pose must have been one with very
small meshes, great numbers of extremely small
fish heingfound scattered on the banki of the hike.
—The robbers were not satisfied with the great
quantity of fish which they
w obtained, but also car-
ried off to large nets of the value of 301. -Which
were placed to dry near the hotise of his Lord-
ship's gardener. The marks of the wheels of a
cart were traced from his Lordship's grounds to
the banks of the Thames, where it is supposed
the plunder was put on board a boat. •
BURGLARY.—Three ruffians in disguise erect-
ed an entrance into the house of Mrs. INNES,
Pratt-place, Harrow-road, on Sunday night,
by scaling a wall of eight feet at the back of the
house soon after dark. Mrs. J., her maid servant,
and daughter, were in the parlour, when one of
the thieves entered,_ and after securing them in
the room, they proceeded to ransack the house
of portable articles, but they were. disappointed
of much booty. Mrs. I. having paid away 401.
on Friday last. They got 2/. 10s. in money front
the lady, her watch from -the mantle shelf, and
some silver spoons, a' silvei waiter, tea caddy,
and other articles, value 401., with which they
.decamped. No personal violence Was committed.
SUDDEN -DEATH.—On Sunday morning last, as
Mr. LUKE, a Gentleman of independent fortune,
who resides in Bermondsey-street, had just finish-
ed his breakfast, and was in the act of reaching a
Prayer-book from the bookcase, for the purpose
of taking with him to Church, he fell doWn and
instantly expired. klis.soo was in the room when
the awful circumstance took place, and instantly
sent for a Medical Gentleman, but every 'elfin( to
restore animation proved ineffectual,