The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-07 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

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Elizateilt Russell, .alias Iluxton, was tried on aft
indiamerli charging her with, stealing et!itain iiiti-
cies' of wearing apparel, the .property of Lairs
Dcilew. ' . ,
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Mr. 1301. LAND having stated that the priioner had
stolen the child of the prosect.yor, and exphined.the
motive for charging,het with stealing the clothes ra-
tber than with stealing the child, he proceeded. to.

call h s ~iti,ses,es to prove the 144.
Mrs. COX was first called. 41}e0t.poscd that she
lived in St. Martit..'s-laue, Cannon street. She was

actrainted with, James .Dellew :and his wito; the
(orm-.,r is tr, Warehouseman, in the city. On Mnu-
da), the of November, Mrs. Dellew being ill,
sent her little son, Thomas Dellew,:a.child d►rge
ye4rs of age, and firs sister, five years of sge, to sxit-
pess, to be taken care of. In. the• cour,o of that
morning a lady came into the shop, to purchase
some apples, and witness at that time
.having the.
little boy in her arms, she put him dowry, and pro-
ceeded la serve her customer. The lady seemed to

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take part icolar notice of the children, and gave them
some of the apples she had bought. At that trio-
mem a young woman came in to purchase potatoes,
and after her came another person to make some
other purchase. waving served these persons, wit-
ness for the first time mimed the 'lady and the two

children. She immediately went out in search of.
theta, and after some time Mal saw the letle girl
running down the street,
.wi!h an apple one hand
and a small 'plumb cake in the other. The child.
told het% that she had been with the lady, who told
her 'to go. hew, and seid she would take her bro-
ther
t 9 his mother; The little boy wits dressed in; a
light.coloured frock, a bliele.skirt; blee piobefore,
and a,pair ot lePt her half-boots. Witness, eitholigh
she had a pertect recollection that the lady. was sery
genteelly, dressed, could not remembet the colour of
• her garments, nor could she recogoize her person.
Mary Bignell, deposed, that she lived at INlrs.
Slate's, pastry-cook's shop, on Fish-street hill. On
Monday, the 18th of NOvetilber, I.llo,priSinip,r came
into her miatreis'e shop, dressed in.a blue cloth cloak'
trimnsed with fur, a straw hat with a blue flower, a
dark eolourie4.gown, and a ~white apron ; shs was,
accompanie4 by a little boy dressed as described by:
the' last witness, and,a, little girl.
The sister of he little boy was then put forward,
and witness
,rocoguized her to be the same child that
aeeompanied thu reisoner. She putehesed two
phubb and two seed cakes, and then went ont of
the shop with the children. Inquiries were made
in'five minutes efiertvards, when witness give all
the information site could on the subject.
Miss Slate coreoborated the testimony. of the last
witness:
Antic Wakefield deposed, that she lived ~at
Messrs. Payton and. Cd.'s, hatters, on Fish.street.
hill. Oa the .i Bth of November a lady came into
her master's shop; she was dressed in a blue .eloak
tilt-tuned with fur,
.and wore a .straw hat and a blue
flower, hut shecuuld not recollect her person. She
had a littlejtpy' h her. who wore to hlue pinhefore,
She, eat the child on ille. counter, and asked for a
hat of ...the value of half-a-iguinea, Anti,on g.etting,it
she asked fOr a feather, whiCh eitoes bronehrher.
Witpesi then asked her if she 'should set it In, but
she said, no, as she was in .t great hurry she then
paid eleven shillings and went out. Witness as
ptesent at Union-Hail when the .ittle girl; the sister
pf the child stolen, poiteed out the prisnee; ((Gm
'amongst other -ladies, as the person who had ado
her to the pastry-cook's j shop,..and had taken her
'brother away. Thisves eight days afterwards;
John Shergold 44osed, that he was A labourer in
the Service of the East India Company, alid)n;(;),e
of the Child Stolen..., He wag distrthating hills. tor.
there daya:before received any tidingie He then
ici:etved such informatem AS induced him to o to
the lodiing of the prisoner, in Trafalgar place,'
Lock's-fields; be wag accompanied .by two officers.
Ott arriving at the house, he was .told she wa.s net at
home ; the landlady however promised to send for
tier, whielisite did. Here it appeared, teen the
testimony of the witness as ta titb:eonversAtion. he
had with, we prisoner, that she was, a woman of
loose .charatter.—He first saw her in the 'front
room in thesecond .floor, but Out seeing any thing;
there:which could lead to a dikovery of his nephew,.,
he persuaded her to take him into a back room,
which he also shrverecl with a scrutinizing eye, but
was still ,unable tog tin any trace of what lie so
,much desired. He then asked. her to put.on .her
cloak, with a view to see .whether it tallied with the
description be had heard frOm,,the pastry-cook's
shop ; hut she refused, and proposed mekieg hint a
comfortable cup of tee,' as she supposed he was going
to stop, all night with her. Atter wine further eett.
versatility be called, up, Goff, one of the ,odicers who
had accompanied hint, and at once toid; the prison e.
the iribjeei of his visit, namely, to search for his
riepheW, who had beetystolem She, seemed. retch
hula, and asked 'how he hedsobtained any direetioo
to her.. _Witness then told her that he bad been in-
'ormed by a Gentleman who. had lost-a 611141, but
had found it again, that it was stolen by a tieotp.
who wore a blue cloak; and leathers inkier hat: The
prisoner
.then said she.bad no such clothes, and
offered to ACV her werdrhhe to witness. Witness,
iefused"to see them, and said, if, she was an inno.
.0414 ffigsp she would hayen! elajettion tepee the

servant ot the pastry•cook, where the . Jay Ac-hl-)
bad stolen the child had purchased some cakes. The •
prisoner declared herself perfetily-r.s illingAtty ee ally
one. Witness then sent for Mary Bag-e1.1,' o re-
cognlzed the prisoner as the lady who hart purchased
the cakes for the children. Witi,ess next propo,ed
drat she shoald accoMpasiyAthirr to liter natter's
.o.s.
Fish-street- hill,•tO which tie 'fdsci,ave,d. Oil their
'way, the prisoner ntiessioned, him
.closely as to Coe
mode of his discovering her. Witness then-told her
:hat he lord heard she was acewicd of taking a
before. She confessed she had, but at she had 1441
the Mothitr's perthission, Witness ihen, aslad her
if sb‘• had permission to haVe the cliiid,' why ...he
beit it? She contcs4ed she had stripped it, bot not
to hurt it. "By this time they i d arr,ved at the
hatter's 'shop, wh, re the wiiness a,ked Anti Wake.
field if she Could recollett her. Slue said she teas
about the satn- height of the person who bought
the haifor the child, on the t Bth of Nnyember, but.,
she did not 'remember lierpersoo. Upon heariog
her talk, however, she said The vast e,
and firmly uelieved to he the person who
bought the hat for' liitlei Dillow. Winess ;ben
condwried her to Union-hall, and have her charge
ot an officer.

V:iinegq on his crosq-examinet;on said, be bad not
sect] any eintht.s i ..ti•e prisoner's.toont which cor-
re,pootied \vii h those detcribed b .114 witnesses
a; worn by the prisoner when sheiwas suppusod to
11,4 e
,ocilen !,e• clad'

John Mills, formerly a soldier in the Guard,:,
deposed, that he plyed as a porter in Thames-street.
On the` Bth rt Novert,ber he saw the prisoner
rtriVing iwo hole 'i•childrt-ii helorchor ; the ehle4t
Seeniel reluEtant to go, and the riioner took the
youngest in her arms, and she, was going io btif
cakes (or them..: Witness walked alter them to the
end of the strut, his attention being minified by
the prisoner'
,"„ raiher Snubbingthem." Shortly
afterwards be s'aW the hide ,reiurn alone 'with
some cakes in iis He p us pos'itive its to the
,person'olthe prisons r.
On the part of the, pi-I,oller, her .landlady
.called, and she 'positivOy swore si:e li.id pot quit (c.c.!
her lodgings on the 18th of NoVember. §l,c al-o
swore most positively that she had not'it btu ci. aI to

tier possession.'c ""'
• She was eerroburatell thislaa by. Mary Wriglv,.
a waiber-woman idthough on teroos
of intimacy with therprisoner, she bad never. seen a
a blue cloak in her Teotn.

Severdl witnesses were then exattined .to the Fro.
cotter's character, who -all bore tcstimoui to her
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neral good. cntiduti..
The ReottbEtt, 'ittrnniing up the evkh
served* that )liere was 'nothing to fix the vti,oi•er
with the gniit but Ler identity ; be the' ii ii.stooei:d
ease in which six ‘,vitrwsses had sworn to the t.er,un
of a Gentleman mR having committed a rohh,irsi at
Hampstead, who :atttit-,,vtirds pro% cd to detnow:;tra-
non, dent he was' to Lbodolvat :the time at
was said 1161,nd been Vilry,ef the poi iwe iniliiited
to tint. tiaVti: then'Ovolt:d to the, rrliltt pro‘i:d
on the part of the pitianer, he exhotted the' Jury,
to cltret minds of all fimjudice, and tam thir
judgment wPiolly upon the fact 4 beroFe them,. .11
ihq had :thy doUbt. as' td ;her guilt; her Bond eli,t-
raCter otlght !,,hrpwit into the scale of mercy ;
if, on .the'eontrary,, they wet e fully cony. loct-d of
her crimitiality, they wbuld return a v
,
coroingtv.
jury, after a alloqcqnsp.loo9n, returned a
%TIP:A of Acrittrd, . •

- Sever..l females were cprrind out of the Courtin It
of insensihtlity during the,. trial, from the
crowded State of every pot.of it. The trial lasted
11'0,11 five mild nearly ten o'clock.
?It:mos Diibbins wi4s capitally indicted for assault.
io4 'Witiimn.Sinith, on the King's. highway, vOtting
hilt) in tear, and repot his person a Silver
watch and two guld.sears, and acquitted.
,Honor' Th uipttioAed rt.' 9 j year,., wag tried on an
indictment, clArzt,tisher With the wilful mower of
Stephen• Brawn, li4tiand; on the 5 it) of No.
vembe( hist,' in thdliilt?istiOf St.llunatan, Stepney,
and acquitted.. ',"

.14411 TNEATRP.--The heavy, common-place,
chaiii3 pl. The Man of Ike) MOW last night intro-
ducat 'Dar. Gar,Ny, an actor of reputation on pro-
vincial boards, to 'the London audience, in the part
of Sir Pertinar M'Sycafilont. It is but justice.
t(),lll,is, Perfoimer to'state, what we are, assured is
thela4..t, that he very reluctantly took this part rot'
his .Onset, fully lware of tl4 merited 'fame Which
;Cooke had acquired init. As it was, therefore,
inconformity te *le wish' of the Manager, and not
in the indulgence of en over-weening confidencein,
his., own .power 4, th* he thus came forward,. by
wOuld be entitled to alenient consideration, if his
abilities had not 1114 justified the discernment which
'assigned the part to -him. Mr. h'RANT is a good-
lookitig u,iddltmized and, middle-Aged man. He
.<eermert to hate.4l,vety just conception of the part,
aivl ;,ti th'e,wholei-ow,taiped it In such a manner as
to desetve the applosse which he received. He
has some pra6tices touanlearn, which are usual on
I. the provinclal sine, the chief of, which consists of
intetje(niortal interpola;ions of rather a vulgar pa-
tine. It w.is observable, that when he had uttered
his shame in the dialogue, he did not sufficiernly
support the&eharaaer, and aid the,progress of the
fliuk; by what. 'is termed .bye.ple.ty. Altogether,
however, he made/ a Very. respt..6.table 'stand in a
part rendered , more arduous b) the high repute of
his immediate predecessor, and is likely to 'become a
ttieftil Alit* to the co nic strength of the C,frvent.
-‘Garden Company. I.lley who are more competent
to decide than we pretend' to be, gave him the
rake. of bcing. Y,cry.corred in his prouttnciation of
'the Caledonisottialeti.

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