The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, APRIL 18.

John Pettit alias Smith, James White, James Mar-
tin, and Samuel Hellick, were indicted for breaking into
the dwelling-house of Sarah Howard, No. 42, Goswell-
sn-eet, St. Luke's, and stealing therein ten sovereigns, and
a variety of articles of household furniture.
The evidence proved that, on the 3d instant, the pri-
x finer Pettit entered the house of the prosecutrix, and said
that his name was Smith, and he was a broker, and had a
warrant of distress to seize the goods for a Mr. William
Chapm in, who claimed 1201. for six years' back rent.
He produced a paper, which he represented as a warrant
of distress; and he broke open doors, and proceeded to
levy. The goods mentioned in the indictment were car-
ried out of the house by the prisoners, and placed in a van.
A clerk of Mr. Freshfield, the solicitor, arrived at the
house, and gave Pettit into custody. The other prisoners,
as soon as they found that Pettit had no lawful authority
for making the seizure, assisted in carrying the goods bark
into the house of the prosecutrix.
The RECORDER. did not put James White, James Mar-
tin, or Samuel Hellick upon their defence, as they appeared
to be acting under a belief that it was a legal distress.
The defence of Pettit was, that he had been employed
by a person named Chapman, who represented himself as
the landlord of the house, to make the distress.
The REcoitima, in summing up the case to the Jury,
pointed out to their attention the facts tending to show
that Pettit knew there was no claim for rent. Pettit gave
a false name, anti represented himself as a sword-broker,
when, in fact, he was a carpenter ; and, upon being asked
where his employer (Chapman) resided, he gave an ad-
dress, where, upon inquiry, no such person could be
found ; and, in fact, there was reason to believe that no
such person as Chapman was in existence. If the Jury
believed that the prisoner Pettit went to the house fur the
purpose of stealing the goods, and not under a supposi-
tion that he had authority to distrait), they would say he
was guilty.
The Jury, without hesistation, returned a verdict,
Guilty—Death; and
The RECORDER advised him to prepare for the pro-
bable consequences of ss aggravated a crime, as it was his
conviction that his Majesty would be advised to direct the
law to take its course,
Thomas White was charged with having, on the 25th
of March last, at Marylebone, forged an order for the de-
livery of two dozen of sl.erry wine, with intent to defraud
Alexander Archibald ; a second cauat charged him with
the uttering only.
The prisoner is a man about 40 years of age, and of very
gentlemanly exterior.
Ann Byfield, a handsome widow, about 30 years of age,
said that in March last-she kept a chop-house in Crown-
court, near the Temple, and being in want of wady cash,
she was introduced by the prisoner to a Mr. Archibald, a
hill discounter, at No. 8, Thayer-street, Manchester-
square, to discount an acceptance of her's for 21/. 13s. 9d.
She received 14 in cash, and was to receive the temain
der in wine. She scot a aervant for the wine to Mr.
Archihald's house, anti then learned that the prisoner had
obtained it on a forged order (which was produced.) She
swore positively that she never authorized the prisoner to
write the order, or to send for the wine.
Mr. Arch;l4l proved that the primer brought the
order to his hotise; anal the wine was sent to the prisoner's
lodgings, in Hadlow-street, iatirtoasceseent.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that h was to re-
ceive 3,!. for getting the bill discounted, and he had the
sanction of the prosecutrix to procure the wine to sell to
the best advantage.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.
The 6easiona having closed, the RECORDER pft;ac.al thA
sentences as follows
Diarx.—Thomas Gill, stealing goods value 126!. and
upwards, is a dwelling house ; W. Henry Cara, for utter-
ing a forged order for the payment of money; Sarah
Bowen, far stealing goods value 181. in a dwelling-house;
Richard Harper Green, for uttering a forged bill of ex-
change ; John Davy, alias Wheeler, for breaking into a
dwelling-hon=e ; James Bray, for stealing goods value 181.
in a dwelling-house; John Dearman, for entering a dwel-
ling house and stealing therein ; W. Powell, for the like
offence (prisoner exclaimed " I am innocent now I") John
Shaw, for robbing in a dwelling-house; Robart Nixon
fur a like offence ; James Smith, for uttering counterfeit
shillings, having been previously convicted as a common

utterer; Sarah Ash, otherwise Jane, wife of W. Ash, for
a like offence ; Eleanor Fox, for highway robbery ; Mary
Steel, for sante offence ; Patrick O'Donnel, for robbery on
Elizabeth Coombes ; Peter Daley, fur same offence; John
Harris, for burglary; John Pettit, for robbery in a dwel-
ling-house; Thomas George Dawkins, fur breaking into
a dwelling-house, and stealing therein ; and John Ballard,
for same offence.
TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE.--Eliza Green, Thomas
H;gginbottsin, George Bassett, Edward Eatit s, Eliza
Davis, Mary Ann Coran, Eden Simpson (who said to the
Recorder " Thank yon, Sir, and may you be stiff when I
come back,") George Morgan, William Herritt, William
Heron, Margaret Sullivan (who exclaimed " May you
stop where you sit till I come back, you old --.")
Fort FOURTEEN YEARS.—George Perryman, Charles
Sullivan, Ann Keene, Joseph Gibbons, Francis Beck,
Thomas Smith, Harriette Storer, Alfred Hawkins, Martha
Soper, William Connell.
Fon. SEVEN YEA M.-Ann Pitt, James Hill, Henry
Brown, William Perry, Ann King, Susan James, John
Judson (who fainted when he received sentence, after ex-
claiming " Oh, my wife and family !"), James Jones,
James Hobbs, William Davis, John Watson, Edward
Evridge, Samuel Oakley,"Richard Goodall, Edward Gable,
Henry Grady, Stephen Smith, Edward Colbrook, John
Harman, Henry Williams, William Stirling, John Sellers,
John Warren, George Collins, Robert Hurst, John Jones,
James Taylor, Charles Austin, Horatia Elisha, John
Plimpton, George Hooper, William Watts, William
Howell, John Moss, Jane Bitchie, William Davis, Thomas
Harding, James Haywood, Ann Maria Martin, Sarah
Stephenson, George Kilpatrick, John Newman, John
Scales, William Holmes, John Macnarnara, James Avery,
Sarah Mason, Maria Tourney, James Reynolds, Eleanor
Ginnor, Jane Harvey, Thomas APCarty, George Gray,
John Thomas, Mary Morris, William Jones, William
Pope, Henry Bacon, John Brown, Robert Carter, Robert
Barn, Thomas Mansfield, Jane Chapel, Ann Cordwell,
Thomas Purdy, John Goodrich, Robert Woodward, Wm.
Tuck, James Golding, William Jay, John Butler, Charles
Dunn, Elizabeth Spice, Ann Taylor.