The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-09 00:00:00

HATTON.GARDEN.

Yesterday William Newill, Robert Dennington,
William Williams, and James Carrot, who under-
went numerous private and public examinations
during the last five weeks at this office on a charge
of sheep-stealing,
were placed at the bar before
the sitting Magistrate, Mr. ROGERS, for final ex-
amination.

Mr. Oldershal,v, a solicitor, attended the prose-
cution on the part of the Society for Prosecuting
Felons, and Mr. Harmer appeared on the part of
the prisoner Newitt.
Twenty-three witnesses were examined at con-
siderable length? the substance of whose evidence

was as follows :—Thirty Leicester sheep, part of a
lot of seventy-one, belonging to a Mr. Neale, of
Wardley, in Rutlandshire, and consigned by him
to Mr. Thompson, salesman, of Islington, were
stolen from their pens on the morning of the
3d of August last. They were driven by the
prisoners, Denninf.,,ton and Williams., who have beer
costertnongers living in the neighbourhood of Saf-
fron-hill, directly to the slaughter-house of a man
named Johnson, in the lidgeware-road, and having
' left them there in the name of Newitt, who is a
butcher, and formerly carried on business in Little
Turnstile, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and who, the eve-
ning before the felony, engaged Johnson's slaughter-
house for the purpose of killing, these men proceeded
to Newitt's residence in the Coal-yard, Drury-lane,
and called him out of bed about three o'clock in
the morning. Newitt procured three or four
butchers at Newgate-market, and taking them to
Johnson's they killed the sheep, and got them
ready for sale in the course of the day. Newitt
then provided a horse and cart, and removing the
fat and skins to Mr.' chandler, in Clare
market, sold the fat, weighing 30 stone, to Mr.-,
Sadler, for which he received three guineas in parr
payment, and afterwards sent the skins away in the
cart to the Regent's canal, into which they were
thrown at Kew-bridge, but were discovered the fol-
lowing morning by one of the Bow-street patrol.
Newitt next ordered 23 of the carcases to be taken
away from the slaughter-house, 14 of which were
delivered to Mr. Poeklington, salesman, of Newgate-
market, six to Mr. Chandler, of St. John's-street,
Clerkenwell, to be disposed of on commission, both
of whom paid Newitt upwards of 301. for them,
and the other three were delivered at Basham's,
St. Anne's-court, `'ardour-street. On the Sunday
evening previous to the morning of the felony,
Williams and Dennington were seen inquiring for
Newitt at his residence. They were two days
afterwards seen in the company of Newitt
at the Green Man public-house, in Drury-
lane, where Newitt changed a 5/. note and paid them
some money. After Newitt's apprehension, they
were heard to say, that had it not been for that cir-
cumstance they had nothing to fear, and if they had
money they would go into the country. They were
apprehended on Saturday week selling fruit in
Leather-lane, Holborn, by Limbrick and Hall, officers
of this office; and Newitt was taken into custody at
the Wellington public-house, Pentonville, by Morris
and Bond, two of the patrol.
The prisoner Carrel, who is a drover employed at
Islington, was taken on suspicion of having opened
the pens and let the sheep out, but there being no
evidence against him, except Newitt's assertion, he
was discharged. The other three were fully com-
mitted for trial.

A hackney-coach driver, of the name of Barman,
was fined 5/., and in default of payment committed
for two months to the House of Correction, for as-
saulting a man named Young, in a brothel, in Phea-
sant's-court, Gray's-Inn-lane, the night before.