The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-02 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, OCT. 31.

ACQUITTAL OF MIL ADAMS FOR FORGERY;
Balthazar Adams was indicted for feloniously'
forging, on the 4th September, an- acceptance to.
a Bill of 147:change for 2001 purporting to be the
acceptance of Messrs. Snow and Co. bankers,
with intent to defraud them, or Messrs., Hurd anti
Johnson, solicitors.
Mr. ARABIN stated, that the prisoner stood
charged with, that he having in his possession a
Bill of Exchange for 2001 did feloniously forge
an acceptance thereto in the name of Robert Snow,
with intent to defraud R. Snow veld Co., and in
another count to defraud W. Hurd and G. John-

son.

Mr. ALLEY stated the -circumstances of the case
to the Jury.
Mr. G. Johnson stated, that he was -a Solicitor,
King's Bench Walk, InnerTetopie.
W. Hurd Was his partner : he had never seen the
pri,otier but once before the 4th of September,
upon which- day he came to their chambers : it
was about one o'clock in the day. He Said he
had asked Mr. Hord to discount a bill of 2901.
for him, but that he had not found it convenient
to do so from his private purse, and had directed
him to him (Mr-1°1)1;50n). Witness took th,e
Bill of Exchange and gave him a cheque for
1971. lOs. deducting a discount-of 21. I.o*. Wit-
ness sent the Bill of Exchange to the banking=
.-
banking-
house of. Messrs. Snow and Co. within half an
hour afterwards, and it was then discovered, that
the acceptance of " accepted for self and Co.
Robert :Snow," was a forgery. -Witness sent
John Percy with it. •
Mr. ALLEY then called a witness,. named
Charles Ctuntnings, but be did not appear : het,.
was 'Consequently ordered to be called •upon his
recognizance. He was, pursuant to this order,
caller! aloud three times in the moilarinanner,.
but did not appear ; and Mr. Allcy then stated to
his Lordship and the Court, that in the absence of
this witness, he could not, with safety, proceed
further in the trial. '
Mr. Baron GAthtow observed, that the Learn-
ed Counsel had stated, that the absence of the
necessary witnesses he could not satisfactorily
proceed with the trial ; and as he was sati,stieii
of that fact, be did perfectly right in saving the
valuable-time of the Court; for, - fortunately, by
the law of our land, a prisoner was always pre.-
surned innocent until he was found guilty by a
Jury of his Country. Under these circumstances
-there was notking_for the Jury to consider—they
-were; therefore, hound to acquit the prisoner.
The Jury instantly pronounced the prisoner
Not Guilty, and Mr. Adams, who was extremely
well dressed and powdered, bowed
_to the CoOrt
• and withdrew.

- CASES OF FORGERY.
J. Leonard was capitally convicted of uttering
a (urged 11.. note, with intent to defraud the Go-
vernor and Company of the Bank of England.
Sarah Leonard, 'the wife of the last prisoner,
was indicted for a, similar offence towards the
former prosecuttix. Guilty—Death. The son of
the prosecutrix and the Jury recommended her to
mercy, as in all probability she acted under the
influence of her husband.
Sarah Farinilo was indicted for a similar offence.
The Inspector proved the note to be a bad one.
4n her defence she said her husband gave her the
note, and told her the name and address to pa
on it. He was at the door when she went into
the shop,' and as in duty hound she .obeyed him.
Guilty—Death.
Gilbert Warren was capitally convicted of utter-
ing three forged notesiiirOwing them to be so.--•
Death.

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lURDErt.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. I.—A Coroner's Inquest
I%.a.s..ilrehl on Monday and Tuesday last, before
ROGER CALLAwAY, Esq., Coroner of this Borough,
on the body of Thomas Huntingtord, aged 71
yews, a shipwright in this Dock-yard, who was
found dead in .fiis bed, covered with blood., early
on the: morning of Saturday last, at his lodgings
in Orange-street, Portsea. A verdict of Wilful
Murder- was returned against his wile, Sarah
flurztingford, ag.,l about 60, who has been con-
sequently committed for trial at the next County.
Assizes. The circumstances of this horrid crime,
.as they appeared in evidence, are as follow :
Huntingford and his wife retired to their bed-roam, being
the front garret, at their usual hour on Friday night; it did
not appear that either of them was intoxicated. About
three o'clock on Saturday morning, Samuel Bately, a super-
annuated shipwright, who occupies the hack part of the same
horse, was awoke by, the steps of some person coming down
.stairs, which person he hoard so out at the back-door. He
imniediately threw .open his window, when he discovered a
female in the yard walking to and fro; With some garment
wrapped round her head: He called, but receiVed no an-
swer he saw the person return-into the house. He put on
part of his clothes, and opened his' dour, when he discovered
Mrs.Huntingford going up into her own room with a lighted
candle. She appeared alarme-tc shook notch, and, ou Iris speak-
ing to her.she dropped her candle; which went out, and she ex-
claimed, "I am .murdered and 'robbed !" Bately took up the
candle, and went into the landlady's (Mrs. Jennings) room,
the front room on' the first floor, where he lighted the candle.
Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Huntingford went up stairs; Bately
fdll,,wed so soon as he had dressed himself, and also Went into
the room, when th, deceased was discovered lying in the bed,
covered with clotted blood : a great profusion of blood was
. upon the bed, and blood was also spattered on the wail at the
head Of the bed, and on the floor. Bately immediately called
more neighbours, and went for a surgeon, who, on seeing the
deceased, pronounced he haft died from bursting a blood-yes-
' sel— the idea of his hatinig been murdered not at all being
then presumed; but before he went away, he desired that a
handkerchief, which was tied round the' deceased's throat
and head, !night he removed, to ascertain. it he might not
have been strangled; on rennoeinng which, five wounds
Were found • 'on the forehead, four of which • had frac-
tured the skull ; several other wounds were also
found on the bead, particularly one on the left tem-
ple, where the bone was so depressed, that a finger
could reach the brains—all of which appeared to have been
made with a heavy cutting instrument. When Mrs. Jen-
nings and 'lately went into the room, and' discovered the
dead body, Mrs. Iliwingford said, that two then had been
I here, and murdered her intsbaad. The truth 'if this asser-
tion Was instantly riennied by alt the imitates ot the house,
who had heard no noise whatever, and wino found no violence
.had been used on the doors. In reply, Mrs. Huntiagford
said,
her husband had been down the yard ht:foi-e he went to
bed, and had forgotten to fasten the door on his return.—
' She was asked why she had not made a • noise? She re-
plied, they had threatened her with death it she did so ;
that one was tall, and had a tomahawk in his- hand; and
one a short malt, who had a lantern, "and huth their faces
were blackened. She also said, that she was in bed at the
time ; that they asked for money, and on he.- husband's
making resistance the tall man struck him, and killed him ;
that they made no noise, because, she said, they had 'no shoes
on. Upon being asked why she should have gone into the
Yard without giving alarm, she dknied she had been into the
• yard ; but Bately swore positively to her being in the yard,
and to his having met her. in the.way going up stairs front
the yard to her own room; that she remained on the second
step (nom the first landing-place, while Bately lit On: candle
she had dropped, by the candle which was in Mrs. Jennings'
possessiou, who also saw. her at the same time. An instru-
ment, of the shape of a common billhook, but heavier and
mare sharp, was found in the coal-hole, at the foot of the
stairs, and past which spot Mrs.. Huntingford went on
her going and returning from her garret to the yard.
This instrument accorded with the' wouuds, and was bloody.
In further proof of her guilt, it appeared, in examining of the
bed, in the first moment of the discovery, by Mrs. Turnbull
(a midwife), and another neighbour, that. only one 'person
had lain in it that night ; there was no second impression,
and the deceased was lying in the middle of the bed, perfectly
dead and stiff,_ and from the appearance of the blood must
have been dead sortie itrairs. Mrs. H. upon this contradic-
tion to her-statement being observed, acknowledged she had
'not been to bed, though, in the first instance, she stated she
jumped out a 'bed on the first appearance of the men in her
room. Upon her person there was not much blood; upon
her pockets and one of her petticoats there were some small
spots. -The deceased's pockets had been turned inside out,
but were not bloody ; and a small box, in which the deceased
at times had kept money, had been opened, but without
violence, No Money however, was in it, nor could any
found upon the wife. It appeared this wretched woman
had, yrevionsly to this shocking discovery, p.u.vned sine
spoons and her husband's best coat, which he had that day
asked her for, and as she had been long addicted to sottish
drunken habits, it is presumed 'the fear of detection, front
having made away with his property, and the hope of finding
money in his box, had led her to the perpetration of this most
depraved and horrid deed, which must have been effected
shortly after they had retired for the night. The prisoner,
•formerly, many years kept a grocer's shop at Portsea. The
deceased had been upwards ot sixty years a shipwright in his
Majesty's dock-yard ; lie was of a remarhahly quiet iuuffensive
disposition. They had been matried upwards of 40 years.---•
It is not the least shocking. part of this horrid transaction,
that the woman, throughout the proceedings, spewed the
mast callous insensibility.

SMUGGLING AND MURDER AT DEAL.

The following is an extract of a letter from an
Officer belonging to one of. his Majesty's ships in
the Doctw►►s, dated Oct. 2S :

t, We are in a state of bustle and confusion,
in consequence of a murder comMitted a few
nights ago on one of the seamen of the Severn,
by a noted smuggler of Deal. A number of the
midshipmen of that ship had been ordered to go
to a public-house in the town, to arrest some
men who were exchequered, on which they met
with some resistance and the midshipmen placed
a man at each door of the -house, under arms, to
prevent their escape; but one of the • most. Ruda-
eions ran violently out of the front door, imme-
diately turned short upon his heel, and shot the
-guard through the head. The poor fellow died
immediate/y. The rest, with the murderer, after
discharging their pi,tols at the rest of our men,
One of whom was wounded slightly, succeeded in
launching a small boat, and pulled like devils for
the coast of France. No time was lost in send-
jog to London for some of the Bow.-sireet offi-
cers, who arrived last night. This morning at
day-light., some Midshipmen from the Severn
landed tinder arms, to search the town and houses
of the suspected, in which arms-were found. The
'poblican and all his • family were taken into cus-
tody, aril packed off in a stage-coach for Lon-
don, they being charged With aiding and assisting
the escape of the murderer."'

CALAMITOUS On Thursday morning,
hetWeenthree and four o'clock, a fire was disco-
vered in'a small earthenware shop at the Halfway-
houses (opposite the Wiltshire Lamb Pond),
which was. attended With most calamitous and af-
fecting consequences.; the burning to death of a
girl of sixteen, and a boy of fourteen years of
age; of a- woman so severely that
'her life is despaired of.; and the breaking of an
.arm and ,otherwise bruising a young man; with
thetlitai'lleitruction of the house and every arti-
cle therein.: -the persons escaped from it with
barely ,any. coveting. The origin of it cginut
eveu be surmised.lll eitlref< ofothe. survivors.

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT- AT Allo°.

Yesterday week, between the hours.of ►l3-n
tlia•
in the forenoon, the dwelling-house‘ of Mr., ao.
pry, a miller, near the Berkhainpstead4oad,
ing to London, . was_ robbed of articles to s(en,
amount. The whole neighbourhOod• tvet?•oo
gaged in the religious services of the tinY• ears
Impey, a maiden lady, now upwards of .70 y Q
old, was the only person in the house ; she I°:f.
pellet' to be in the passage that leads to the „
den, making arrangements for the faniily
when she encountered a" man-, penetrating Aijitgir
the back premises, Who knocked her down. 't
this, the miscreant had 'the ferocity to d'. lie-
clown, step by step, to the cellar.. Ile g
flicterl on her several blows, and left her weiteritiilc
in blood. Thinking her dead, the villain tje #
door latch by a suing to the door•nost•
Impey, at length, so far recovered as 10 rec",.....-
nine the villain who had thus maltreated:Mer 'nut
Silver and halfpence were the chief booty. s-,
the robber and his colleague soon sheered o'Pe
Shortly after, a man of the earneolJoSeph 091.ci;
who was employed at Mr. ltnpey's mill, haPiliro
to go to the house, which is' about two ntini-et-.AI
yards from the mill, knocked -at the door sey
got
times, when the door not being opened, 'eli_of
into the orchard, and, on listening at the bac" 4
the house, distinctly heard a most distreSsll.l6
noise: he called, but received n ansWer•
then g
ot into the back part of the house, veherc Ira
,i
soon percei ed the cellar-door fastened wits ,
gimhlet, which induced him to venture down tl,
ej
stairs. Descending to.the bottom, be discoveiot
Miss linper in a most grievous state, her ‘41": ,g
and face being coveted with blood. She had I'Lat
sufficient strength remaining to tell him
Itastert
had happened ; he _told her ,he would
inns
to procure assistance, but she iutreatedpo
not to leave her. Hatch assured her the": 6'aisbg
appearance of a robber, and that he had no (I°.-1,,
was gone ; she then consented to his goo,.
Hatch ran with all possible speed to Berk this
stead, and alarmed the congregations ctrl ee
Church and at the Quaker's Meeting; an
at)
alarm became general throughout tier tow" ;0
.neighbourhood. Every possible exertion '01,4
made on the Sunday to trace out the robbenk•oil
the only suspicions character till: could be
1;06140,
upon was a man. who had been seen iu
`vas
stead, on Sunday morning, begging. It tites
certaiited that lie had left the town about the
oce
the robbery had been committed. Lie vrasPbbere
ever, soon brought back to Betkhamstead)
f the
be was examined before the Magistrates °,tee
district; but nothing appeared to criteiteV•i,,og
man. Mr. Henry Hase, cashier of thel3ll3oo
Englamk, and other highly respectable Gericle•eve/
who reside in that neighbourhood, were g-cionsA,
that such a daring .offence should have heel,' AO°
mitted, and the, perpetrator of the borriu-sppli'
remain at large. They accordingly Mot!! 00
cation to Mr. Birnie, at Bow-street, on rsiti
for officer to he sent to Berkhamste°,("speed'
Bishop was dispatched with all possible, or/
Soon after his arrival the be.ar was
he having ascertained that ago
an of golte
ferret description had been seen coming °„."‘#
Impey's houie between eleven and tweivc,,e- 01-
; on
.§unday. A boy of the name of 305erthe
• stated,. that he believed the robber (07 fito(),(if
of a respectable butcher in that neigh`:(":l'lnr
and, in consequence,. he wes apprehritue-.3140:
shop. He underwent two very long tr: i\PP:
dons, on Thursday and Friday, before t.",1e4 /°.
strates for the county, and was COlll'iniure°lll
turther examination. Mr. bteelea the
5
attends Miss Impey.

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SUDDEN o Orl O.
DEATH.-Yesterday Riter"- , oterie
Howlett, copper-p!ate and letter-press P vi,liffr;
Frith,street, Soho, while reading the ne'r.'"iiiiti'
dropped down dead, 'be !taiga'. been ilie
before in perfect health. ek
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On Friday last; at Qutenhithe; Mrs. J. loos
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Ye;ter4k;Y; tit, GlOncesterlllace, the LailY°l—*
Esq. of a son.

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MARRIED. (Or'
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On Saturday last, at St. George's, BloomsbLUlLott-fr
Esq. of Lincoln's hut, to Miss -Davison, of 1-'s' WI
el', ' o,
in the parish of lqslip, Middlesex. f-I3'°) ter
On Saturday last, at St. John's Church"l,Y
dat,gt,
George Pears, of Friday-street, to Elizl,
James Busted, Esq. Sutton-place, Homert""'
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On the 21st ult. at Richmond, Mr. William or
aged 91. MO, ~,
(ant —0,
On Thursday last, at Tunbrike Wells, tile Ittioell-,11600
of Arthur Baily, Esq. of Uppet Bedford-place, ' ocnrY
On the 29th of October, at Peckham-AY',
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the 3d or King's, Own Ile • tof Pragr '4.
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youngrst daughter of the Reverend l'lrilip
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Tuesday last, at North Bradley, -Mr..l"n lace, a' se
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years of age, to•MiSs Mary (hook, of the sartietil'e pie. brido
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Weeds, of the above-mentioned place. ~;is 0
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Blakeney, Norfolk. - - pal
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the morning of the day on.wilicli be dic3, 0'
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