Star.
London, England, 1807-11-03 00:00:00

OLP P.4ILEI'.

Oa Satter,- y twelve prifoners were Hitt! two Of
whom were capitally co:Alided, vit.
R Brown an I H. Jel[op, [Jr It. sling three (beep, the property
of John Watkins.
Seven were c'tnvieted of felonies,
viz.
R. Norris, for Stealing two hives of bees the •,r.) erty of J.
Weeden.
J. 1 milord, for ftealing a dald's great coat and other things, .1
property of J. Darhyihire.
C. Miller. for (leafing a watch. the property of E Dingley.
Margaret Kelly, fur 'leafing three cotton gowns and other a if •
des, the property of Ann Cumming...
Mary Neale and Elizahtth Hurler, for Stealing two pieces
ribbon, the property of William Fanner.
\V Sanders, for Stealing an axe and a fquare, the troptrty o: •
G. Cury.
And three were acquitted, among whom was—
George Palmer, a young man, who was incli&ed
for that he, beiag employed as a forcer of letters, in
the General Poit Otfice, dii felonioufly kctete and
embezzle a letter, containing a 401 bank note, on the
sth of Auguli.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL, on the part of the Pont
Office, detailed the faits attending the cafe, to the
Jury. He flated, that the prifoner, who had held a
place of ann. that of a totter of letters in the Inland
Department with fidelity for fome time, was art aign-
ed for an offerce which was made capital, by an aft
of the 7th Geo. M. A Mr. Prefion, Barrifler, in the
Tensile, fent 471. 7s. encloted in a letter addreffed
to Mrs. Landrick, at Oakhampton, his clerk having
pieviontly got change for a cheque at the banking•
hnufe of Praed and Co. when he received a 401. note.
the laid letter was pot into the receiving houfe in
Temple lane, by Mr Prellon, but it had never reached
Oakhampton on the 7th r,f Angult, with the other
letters direiled to that place. The Learned Ccunla
obferved, that he would prove the employment of
the prifoner as foyer on the sth of Angutie which
would be tuflitient to [rove that he had an opportu-
nity of fecreting the letter. Inquii y had been made
at the Bank to flop payment of the 401. note enciofed
in the letter ; and it was afcettained that it had been
paid on the 7th of Angult (:he day it fhould have
reached o:.kharnpton) Sy a man who dated hit name
to be Wilfon, and who gave his addict:, which
was fiaious, at No. 6, Warren-ftreet. The numbers
cf the notes which were paid for the 401. by the Bank
in 51. notes, were known at the Bank, and two of
them were traced to the poffetlion of Meffrs. Mar Ihall
and Wells. Tilde rooes were endorfed with the
name of Paris, Tooke's-court, Curfitor-fireet ; and
this circumliance fixed fufpicion on the prifoner, who
refided at the !inure of Mr. Paris. On Mr. Parkin,
Solicitor to the Poll Office, going to the apartments
of the prifoner, he law there a man of the name of
Inman ; and the Stilt itor was informed by Mr. Paris,
that he had received cf the prifoner in al. notes a
quattet's rent, which was not due until Michaelmas.
Ott [earthing the pill-poet's apartments, a policy of
ittfurance for poi. on his goods was lontol, and alto
a quantity of black [ilk quilting, &c. and his [slaty
being only Sol. per annum, his poffellion of theft.
things more ftrungly excited fulpicion. In a few
days after, another circumft ance tt anfpired which
fixed an imputation on the prifoner beyond all doubt
in a reatmable mind. The 51. note, No. t Sco, came
early into the Bank, which was traced to Newnham
and Co. in ugull, and which had been remitted on
a bill of exchange, drawn upon Wells and Mainsail.
It occurred to thole perfons, that a young man who
lodged at the houfe of Mr. Pari., had purchafed filks,
&c. of them, which, as beim e defcr:bed, were found
in the apartments of the prifoner ; and dirk articles
were paid for by the fame perfon who gave his addicts
to Mr. PAtleS. " Thus," laid the Learned Ceunfel,
are the notes which wete produced of the 401. bill,
traced to the prifoner." The prifoner was completely
identifier! ; he carded home the cord he had purchaf-
ed, and lie lett the fiik to be fent to his apartments.
It was alto alcertained at the houfe of Wells and Co.
that the prifoner had purchafed lime black cloth of a
Mr. lint ,n, which had been paid for by another 51.
note, the produce of the 401. The Aunt ney General
concluded by hating, that the prifoner might relieve
himfelf hem tliefe
.laEts, by proving that lie had
Cliled the notes ti aced to his p, ittilion from tome
other quarter, or it would be for the Jury to decide
whether thele circumftances did not bring the has of
the robbery home to the prifoner. It al.() appeared,
that Inman, who was found in the prif,net's apart-
ments, had negeciated other notes, the produce ef
the 401.
The fa& of the notes was traced to the pill-anon
of the prifoner, and his tranit&ions at the honk of
Vsrells and Co. was proved in evidence ; but there was
no proof pofitive of his having Ifulen the 401. note,
and he was acquitted, after the Jury had retired for
an hour.
Yefterday eight prifoners were ttied, four of whom
were convi&ed of felony, viz.
John Cooper, for Stealing wearing ::pparel, the property of Wil-
liam Pulsford; fentenced to be tranfported for [even years.
Mary Chapman and Mary-Ann Margaret Riley, for Stealing
fix gowns, a petticoat, and various other article: of wearing ap-
parel, the property of Mary Levitt, value Sot. in the dwelling-
houfe of Robert Ltvirt
William Saunders, for (leafing on the night of the Itth of Oc-
toher, an adze, two planes, and a few other carpenter's tools, the
goods of James Ford—Guilty.
Mr. Common Sr.rt ea NT afterwards Lid, that the prifancr
(the offence being frivolaus) lhould be fined one Shitting, and li
berated.
The Court was engaged in the following trial,
from eleven o'clock in the forenoon, until fix in the
evening. From thus number of Jews, of both fexes,
who attended, it appeared to have excited confidera-
ble interelt with the people of that pertuation
'WILFUL MURDER.

George Houghton !loud indided for the wilful murder
of Alexander Hart, by mortally wounding him with
a bullet, on the ioth of October lA, in Bell lane,
in the parith of Chritl•church, Whitechapel.
Mr. R-snee slated the cafe on the past of the pro.
fecution.
Moles Moles, a boy, aged fourteen, being firs
interrogated on the nature of an oath, and the crime
of falfc fwealing, depofed, that on Saturday evening,
between the hoots f five and fix, on the loth of IA
Odober, he was playing at hoop with leveral other
boys, on fometuins in Stripe'e•yard, Bell-lane, Spital-
, fields. The deceated, Alexander Hart, was in
company, and was alto playing at hoop. Witnefi
law the ;intoner throw a brick amongtt the boys;
after he had thrown it, he went in at one door, and
loon after came out at another, with a gun in his
hand ; law him preterit it at the boys, and firs—.
Immediately alter, he obferved the (Rented, Hart,
to tall down on his face. No other gun was fired.—