The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-21 00:00:00

OLD 11.A.ILEX SESSIONS-(T01

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OLD COURT.
.HionwAT, ROBBERY.—Benjamip. saundcre and .
Wasley. were indicted for.asSaulting and robiliug. ~r;lliam Price,
ka-Chelsea pensioner, at or; the sila,OfJamiariv It' zip-,
pbared by the'eviderie4 'he prosecutor had:.tie rn drinking
with the .pfisoneit "Oil- the the abO+4:' days
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Isoi3kets, the other man, who has been taker;, knelt upon
his breast and stopped his mouth With his hand.. While he ivas down.
one said to the other in a low tone, "mind the left-hand pocket,
that is the one the money is in." They got some silver from that
pocket, but three or four sovereigns that were in the pensioner's
watch-pocket they did not get, although they tried all his pockets.
When they had got this money, one of them said to the other,
" Come along, he is done ; he'll never rise again." One of them
then raised his head from the ground, and let it fall heavily, and
the ,prosecutor fainted, and recollected nothing more until be
was found by Whitehouse, a beadle of Isleworth. On the latter
telling him not to lie there, as he would be robbed : he replied,
that it was already done, related the facts of the robbery, and de-
scribed the persons who had done it. Whitehouse stated that he
'vas att:,iet'ed to the spot by the graans of the proseviwa-, whom 1
conveyed to the toll house, and gut medical assistance. Believed
he was perfectly sober when he recovered from the effects of the
.vs.—The landlady of the Castle stated, that the prosecutor on
leaving the house asked her the road to Hounslow, and seemed
sober. He had been drinking with the two prisoners and another
man named Manning in the tap-room, and the latter and the
prisoner Saunders left almost immediately after the prosecutor,
leaving Wasley in the tap-room. The latter, when they were
gone, asked the ostler what it was o'clock, remarking,
that if any thing was done that night, it would be laid
to him, and reminded him that he was there then. He went
away about an hour after the others, and was seen at Isleworth
with Saunders at about a quarter before eleven o'clock. Man-
ning returned to the Castle, slept there that night, and has never
since been seen in the neighbourhood. At the public-house at
Isleworth, a witness swore, that a person coining in who seemed
to be an acquaintance of Saunders, observed to the latter, " Why
you've been robbing Somebody' to night, or you would
not be so flush Of ' money ?" Saunders replied, that he
had knocked a man down and picked his pocket.
The prisoner now stated that it never took place, that he had no
money there, and that he actually owed for the beer lie had at that
time.
The Jury found the prisoner Saunders " Guilty," and Wasley
Not Guilty."