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London, England, 1830-08-09 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT, LEICESTER, Atm. 7.
(Before the Cnizr Mawr.)
Josrph Donef,ani was indicted for having, on the 3d of Ma re
Iva, feloniously stolen and carried away from the dwelling-house of
Lord Southampton, at Quorndam, in this county, various diamonds,
necklaces, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, of the value of
3,0001. and upwards, the property of his Lordship.
The evidence did not bring home the charge to the prisoner, and
the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
DERBY, AUG. 7.
Thomas Wilson, aged 15, and Williams Wilson, his father,
were indicted, the former for stealing bank-notes ands bill of ex-
change, amounting together to 1581. 19s. the effects of Mr. Thos.
Lee, out of a letter put into the post•office at Crich, and the latter
for receiving the same notes and bill, knowing them to have been
stolen.
There was another indictment against the prisoners, charging
that the letter containing the notes was stolen out of the post-office,
which would be a capital felony A second count in each indict-
ment charged the notes to be the property of Mr. 11. Williams, of
Manchester, to whom the letter was directed.
The Counsel proceeded on the indictment for the larceny.. The
prosecution was carried on by the posj.office. Both prisoners were
found Guilty. The younger, in consideration of the character for
honesty given to him and the father, and of the recommendation of
the Jury, was sentenced to seven years' transportation ; and the
Judge gave him hopes that he would be sent to the establishment at
Sheerness, instead of being transported. The father was sentenced
to transportation for fourteen years.
The Counsel for the prosecution did not proceed on the second

indictment.
The Learned Judge told the younger prisoner that, if he had
been tried and found guilty of stealing the letter out of the Post.
office, which, probably, was the fact, the sentence of Death would
have been recorded against him, though it would not, perhaps,
hare been carried into execution.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Nonwicu, FRIDAY.
This morning Mr. Justice PAR KE passed sentence upon the se-
veral prisoners for the county. Judgment of Death was recorded
against Rymer, for robbing the three friendly societies at Blofield,
The Learned Judge then adjourned, attended by the High She.
riff, to the Guildhall. Owing to some mistake, either of the She-
riff's carriage driving to the wrong door, or the City Sheriffs not
being In attendance, the Learned Judge declined to alight, and drove
to his lodgings.
In a short time afterwards his Lordship took his seat on the
Bench, and the Grand Jury came into Court with several bills.
Mary .'add was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury—she
chi room that a certain child, of which she was delivered, was
the child of one Corporal Emerson, whereas it was the child of some
other person.
Witnesses, relations of Emerson, who has since died abroad,
proved that at the time she became enceinte, for some time previous
to that period, and subsequently, Emerson was either in a state of
extreme debility, or far away from Norwich.
A parish officer, named Billham swore to her confession to him
that She had sworn the child to the wrong person ; but that, Emer-
son being dead, she thought there would be no piece of work about
it. He said she called him out of a certain room to tell him this.
The prisoner, an interesting-looking woman, about 30, said,
" You know, Mr. Biliham, it watt you called me out, and pee.
. corded me to say what 1 did."
The witness would not swear whether he called her, or she called
him out ; and here was another instance of the necessity for watch.
ing confessions, which there is no doubt are very often, indeed, very
improperly obtained, although the mode of obtaining them is gene-
rally kept out of view.
he prisoner has a husband alive; and, although the belief was
that he was abroad, not one of the witnesses could say where he was
et the time, non constat, but that he might have been within access,
and even in Norwich, at the time. The indictment stated that the
child was born out of lawful wedlock.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. recommending her to
Mercy.
Bliham said the prosecutors (it was a parish prosecution) had de.
ir:d him to do the same thing.
The prisoner burst into tears, and the Learned Judge deferred the
sentence.
0. Pratt was put to the bar, capitally charged with having, on
th- 4th of Oct. last, unlawfully, &c. known and abused Emily Gee,
of the parish of St. Martin-at-Oak; in this cite, she being under the
age of 10 years. The prisoner was a miserable.looking creature,
and seemed to feel himself in a very precarious situation when he
was placed in the dock.
Alt. Pa arrow appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Slant for the
defence.
Emily Gee was called, but, before she was examined, Mr. Smith
said he had been informed that the prisoner was tried at the Sessions,
,upon an accusation made against him by the same parties, and sm
quitted. fie had not the proceedings before him, and, for anew he
knew, it might have been for the same offence.
Mr. Justice Panex—No. it was not. •
The girl was then examined as great length by Mr. Patrrott.
and gave her'evldenee with considerable confidence.
Upon her cross-examination. which alio occupied much time, alba
swore to a period of four minutes, and to another period or two mi.'
antes, admitting at the same time that, from the. first enticement o(
her by the prisoner into his house to look at his birds, to his throw.
ing her down. she was in extreme terror, so as not to know what abe.
was about. Upon being asked- &twilit hour she rose from her bed,
,she answered, " It's so long ago 1. forget." Her father was . a
weaver, sod *he filled in for him when he was it'work. She Id
so neat day, andwdid not tell either her father or mother for a week;
The prisoner bad told her notaor if she did they would bomber. •

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The learned Juocit followed the am-examination with several
close questions, and it became clear that the capital charge upon
such evidence could not be sustained.
The father and mother were called, and deposed to the girl having
told them, upon being questioned, what the prisoner had done ; to
the father thereupon going to the prisoner, and bringing him into
the presence of the girl and her mother ; and to his saying he was
very sorry for what he had done. He would not do so again, and
would pay for any expenses caused by the injury done to the child.
Mr. Troughton, a surgeon, was called, whose evidence was so
conclusive against the prosecution, that the kerne.% Judge immedi-
ately stopped the ease, and directed an acquittal.
At the Sessions this miscreant had been tried for the minor of-
fence but the evidence appearing at that time to the Learned Re.
corder,, Mr. ALDERSON, to be in proof of the capital charge, he
had held that the misdemeanour merged in the felony, and directed
an acquittal, which the Jury very reluctantly pronounced, and the
prisoner was ordered to be detained, in order that another bill might
be preferred against him at the Assizes.
STAFFORD ASSIZES.

(Before Mr. Justice Bosmtnurr.)
Joseph Balkier and Fred. Shorthotsse, two very respectable.
looking young men, were charged with the wilful murder of Mr.
T. Gelber, on the 13th March, 18Y.8, near Burton.upon-Trent.
The deceased, who was a farmer, had been found dead on the road,
and his horse fastened to a gate near him; he had a fracture in his,
scull; but although some suspicious circumstances seemed to indi-
cate that he died a violent death, there was no evidence to directly
inculpate the Owners, or to positively rebut the presumption that
the unfortunate man was killed by a fall from his horse. Under
these circumstances,
Mr. Justice BOSATIQUET said that this was a very lit case to be
investigated, but that the inference from the evidence reasonably
was, that the deceased came by his death by a fall. Ilia Lordship
then directed an acquittal. Verdict, Not Guilty.

YORK ASSIZES, Auo. 5.
RODIERY AT THE RETTINO.ROOM, DONCASTER.
Thomas Farra 4, aged 64, was charged with having received a
1001. bank post b, which had been stolen from the Donauiter
Betting-room, well knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Starkie and Mr. Dodd appear foe the prosecution, and Mr.
Cottingham and Mr. —.--.. Dodd for the defence.
It will be in the recollection of our readers, that at the last anises,',
two persons, named Smart and Jenkins, wets tried for the robbery
and acquitted—and that it was then proved that a pawn tia
Madden had slept with Jenkins at Doncaster, and had suddenly Id
Doncaster on the day the robbery was committed. The lima
Counsel said he could prove that the week before Doncaster
Races, Madden, Smart, and Jenkins were together at the Coach
and Horses public-house, at Birmingham; that Madden instead of
going to York, where he said he was going when he left Doncaster,
ed to Sheffield, where a female servant saw him at the George
nn, with an immense number of hills and sovereigns in his pos.
session, which, on seeing he was observed, he hastily put into a
bag, and set off in a chaise to Chesterfield. On the road he in..
gutted of the driver to which house at Chesterfield they generally
went from the George at Sheffield, and was told the Angel; then,
said he. you must go to the Commercial. Before he got to Ches.
terfield, however, he stopped the chaise and got out, took his bag,
and gave the post-boy 2s. 6d. and sent him back again. From
Chesterfield he should trace him to Birmingham, again at the
Coach and Horses, where he was told that he was wanted, which
caused him to be off. All traces after that time were lost, an.
ail very recently, when he was apprehended. lie should further
prove, that prior to his visit to Yorkshire he was short of money....
The evidence against the prisoner was this. He resided at a place
called Scdgley, nine miles from Birmingham. Up to the last as-
sizes no note was traced to any one.— Shortly after that period, the
prisoner went to the bank at Stourbridgc, and tendered a 1001. bank.
post bill, which Mr. Onodred, one of the proprietors of the Betting
Rooms, could identify as part of the property stolen on the 17th of
Sept. last. He wished particularly to have the whole amount in sove-
reigns, which the bankers refused to do : and he ultimately received 40
toys. and 601. in 51. bank notes. lie then gave his real name and ad.
dress, "T. Farrady, farmer, on this side Wolverhampton." On its
being discovered that the note was a stolen one, and stopped at the
Bank of England, the prisoner was asked of whom he received it?
when he said that he sold a horse in Stourbridge market, to a person
named Lignum, for 351. and that he got it of him. He was then
asked why he was so anxious to receive nothing but sovereigns for
it—" Because," said he, "Lignum desired me—and I gave him
30 sovereigns and a 51. note." If he had sold the horse for 351.
Lignum would not hare wanted that sum, but 651. out of the 1001.
note. His house was then searched, and letters were found signed
" G. M." being the initials of Madden's name. He, however, did
not refer to this robbery, nor did it appear that Madden could
write.
Several witnesses were then examined to prove the above facts.
Mr. Ooodred identified the note, and two clerks from the Stour.
bridge hank proved that Farrady paid a 1001. bank bill at their
II bankin -house, but they could not identify the note produced as the
note dby Farrady. There was another clerk present when he
paid t, and that clerk put a mark upon it, but he was not present
here to give evidence. In the absence of his testimony it was im-
possible to trace the note to the prisoner, who was consequently ac-
quitted.
The Learned Judge said he did not understand why the receiver
should he indicted first; the prisoner, Madden, ought most certainly
to have hen tried before Farrady.—The trial tsted the whole day.
George Madden, aged 35, charged with having received a number
of sovereigns and bank-notes, knowing them to have been feloniously
stolen. Theevidence adduced on this trial (which occupied the
Court the whole of the day,) was • repetition of that in Farrsdy's
case yesterday, and the result was, that Madden was acquitted.
AUGUST 7.
Both of the Judges sat at Nisi Prius yesterday. Mr. Justice
BAYLEY having early on the preceding day disposed of all the
eases in the calendar. The civil causes which came before them
were of the most uninteresting description. Mr. Justice BAYLEY
set out to open the commission this day at Durham. The Counsel
have been pleading before Chief Justice TINDAL without their
wigs and gowns.