The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

tarily at the office; saw Byrne and Roebuck on the I
Friday, and Byrne said to him that it was a shoeking .
affair, Mr. Smith was coming up on the next claY,
and it was a pity that it could not ..t made up.
John Mapirstone met Byrne near the Menagerie
the New-road on the 21st of November. She
accosted him first, and he accompanied her to the
Green Man, where they bad something to drink,
Had never seen her before. Went with her to a
house of a certain description in Winslow•streer•
She gave him her address as fliece to Mr. Smith ;be
prisoner. Witnees wrote it down at her dictation'
James Hoare had seen the prosecutrix before,
Met her in the street, and again by appointment a4'
Mr. tstnith'.3 On the last occasion RoeiJuck wiebe3
him to get over the area, he decliced, and Byre('
then pointed up, to signify that Smith was 100ki.4
out of the first-floor window. Upon this Roebuck
said that he had better be cff, or he would 'et the'
girl into words with the old man. She told Ilia; t°
knock at the door of the next house, and ask fc4;
borne one who did not live there, that Smith stlight
think he was inquiring for some one.
The Jury here expressed themselves quite butibi
!led of the prisoner's innocence and returned a vet',
dirt cf acquittal.
Mr. Justice PARK perfectly agreed with the ver''
diet, and asked if Mr, Alley had any application to
make.
Mr. ALLEY said he would certainly apply to, the
Court for a committal for perjury against Byrne and
Roebuck, and hoped the Court would show that while
woman was protected by the law, man would also
meet with some protection. Such a measure .was'
duo to the protection of the public, of himself, and
of ,:ti ory man who heard him. Those women had
sought to destroy the life of the man before them hi
the moral murder of perjury, and uo person would
be safe if they wee suffered to go unpunished. '
Mr. Justice PARK immediately committed thew,
end added, that if a conviction had taken place, he
should hive thought it a case which called for mercy'
but the evidence of the prosecutrix and her witneaa
had been perfectly contradicted, and he perfectly
agreed in their verdict.
Byrne and Roebuck were theft ushered into Nei"
gate, and the prisoner was brought from the doc;cf
and bound over to prosecute.

NEW COURT.
Hetncock and John Hancock (two
looking fellows) were charged with stealing
two fowls, the property of M. Robinson, Esq.
The Jury found both prisoners Guilty.
T. W. Jones, the eon of the prosecntor, said thcs;
prisoners belonged to a most desperate gang i,
thieves, who infested the neighbourhood of Wing'
ton. The depredations they had of late committed,.
particelarly upon small tradesmen, had become mgst,
alarming. Besides the present prisoners, there vreol
six others of this notorious set of thieves in custodP
All of them used to live in cottages in the fields, e
considerable distance from where any watehrno"
was placed, they therefore had the greatest facility
of conveying stolen property to their homes with-
out detection, and which they had done to a veil
went amount.
Mr. Sergeant AaAnIN inquired if the prisoPel9
were known at Newgate.
One of the turnkeys said they had been both of
them tried several times at that bar, one of them to
lately as the last Sessions; ha was then acqtrirted,
bid was shortly afterwards brought back to his,' 4
quart ere.
Mr. Sergeant ARAI3:24—We will take care thst
that shall nut be the case again, at least for sort"
time to. come ; I will mark the prisoners for trait''
portation.
Thomas Perkins was charged with stealing two
coats, value V., the property of Mr. William Tui'
ne,.—Guilty.