Star.
London, England, 1805-12-07 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY

Yefterday twenty-four prifoners were tried, 18 of
whom were conviaed of felonies, viz.
W. Azford, for Beating a pair of boots, &c. the
property of T. Wiley : W. Matthews, for' Realing
a box, containing paper, the property Of R. Buttery;
G. New, for ftealing a 'peliffe, the property of J.
Maycock ; J, Crowder, for Realing a polighing wheel,
the property of J. Meek ; Ann Brown, for ftealing
a goofe, the property of J.'Allwright ; J. Taylor, for
dealing a petticoat, the property of S. Burford ;-
1. Nowland, for (leafing two pounds of bacon, the
property of W. Davis ; S. Threlkeld, for Realing
two pounds of briftles, the property of J. Watts ; T.
Slater, for ftealing a vice, the property of J. Elliott ;
J. libifter, for Healing a quantity of copper nails, the
property of Meas. Meadows; J. Williams, for Real.
ng a blanket, the property of_Mary Robinfon.
Bicautr.—Jane Butt svits:tried upon an indift-
ment, charging her with intermarrying with John
Stanley, her RA hufbandhding Rill alive.
William Butt, the brother of the &II hnfband,
gave in evidence, that he was prefent at the marriage
of his brother with ttre'prifoner, on the Bth of Janu-
ary, 1798 ; and that his brother was in Court.
John Taylor, parifh cletk of St. Martin's, proved
the prifoner's fecond marriage, on the 25th of No-
umber, 184, at that church:
The ifrifoner left hlr defence to her Counfel. She
was found guilty.
Ann Raiford and Catherine Laurence, were indi&ed,
the one for Cleating, and the other for receiving and
concealing a gteat quantity of haberdafhery goods,
the property of Mr. Bell, a haberdather, in Bridge-
ftreet, Wcftminner.
It appeared the prifoner, Halford, had lived fer-
vant at Mr. Bell's nearly four years, and lately found
an opportunity of robbing the fhop of different ar.
titles, to the amount of fixty pounds. Mr. Bell
miffing many things, had information of a box, con-
taining the goods, being fent by the prifoner, Hal-
ford, to the houfe of the prifoner, Laurence, alias
Rems, where it was found. The Jury found them

Guilty.
Harriet and Elizabeth Todd were capitally inditied
alto, for privately Itealing a Over watch, the pro-
perty of John Morris, on the night of the 7th of
Novamber.
From the teftimony of John Morris it appeared,
that, on the night mentioned, he had taken his lodg-
ing at an hotel in the elegant fatuboorg of Dyot-
fireet, St. Gilcs's. On entering the dormitory which
was atfigned to him, he perceived the door had
neither bolt nor lock ; but conceiving hat, in a man-
!ion fo hofpitable, the flightell barrier wculd be fuf
ficient to enfure fecurity during his numbers, he
fallened the door with his garter. He rofe about five
in the morning, and found the door 1611 fattened,
and his watch fafe. He then refumed his Humber,
rofe again at fever!, mitred his time-keeper, found his
garter cut through the Gordian knot, and the door
open. He immediately roofed the matron of the ho•
tel, and made known to her his misfortune, made
due (earth upon the premifes, but the watch could
not be found. He communicated the circinnitances
and a defcription of his watch, at the Public Office,
Hatton Garden.

Mr. Page. a pawnbroker from tiquor.pond•Fireet,
to whom the watch was offered to be pawned by- the
prifoners at a very early hour on the morning of the
robbery, furpeOingfrom their appearance that it was
not an honeit acquirement, fent for a conflable, and
took them to the Public Office in }Litton Garden,
where the defcription of the watch left there by Mor-
ris was found to correfpond with that which had juft
been offered to be pawned. -
Mrs. Webb, the hoffrefs of the Dit-flreet Rotel,
proved that the poifoners had slept in room adjacent
to that of the Profecutor on the night already Itated;
aid that tiny watt away abort -half pall fit: in tht

1 naming, raying, they were "going to a place„wherd
{,'hey Would get ainie money. •• ' • - .
The Jury found a verdia—Guilty of Ileallog to
the value of 395. _ . - - ..
gefeph Whom/. whO bated himfelf to hivilien a
Lieutenant in the Navy, was tried nn a charge of
Dealing three filver tea fpoons, and one filver table-
limn. the property of Mr. Job'? Wiffin, a klidthip-
man.
The eircumfiances of the cafe have been already
deferated in the report of the prifoner's public en-
Initiation before the Magiftrates of police, before
whom he was at firft taken. The cafe on the part of
the profecution this day, retied entirely on the evi-
dence of the young gentleman who had loft the pro.
petty. He defcribed the friendthip that he had con-
' ceived for the prifoner at their firit interview, on ac-
count of his fuppofing him to be a brother officer ;
the different invitations which he had given the pri-
foner to dinner and breakraft with him—the prifo-
ner's having in teturn invited him to go And fpend
the dip with him on board his !hip, and then leav-
ing him in, an abrupt manner, after which time the
fpoons were miffed. but which he had' pr smiled to
lend him previoully ; and laftly, what patted between
both, on their accidentally meeting together in the
Drees, were all delcribed in the sutlers, blunt. and
candid manner, -peculiar to the naval charafter,
which, in more than, one it:Raneei excited the laugh.
ter of the people preterit, particularly one, part. in
which he raid, that he blamed his ovn credulity, af-
ter the ftranget had made his efcape with the fpoons.
The prgonerina(ted on it that he had been a na-
val officer, and that he was in expectation of another
appointment. He raid that he had done fome ads
of kindnefs for the proferntor, and denied any know-
ledge of the fagwith which he was now charged.
The Jury, without ham' don, pronounced the pri-
foner—Guilty.
Mr. ALLSY moved an area a judgment in the
cafe of White and Richardlon, who were convitted
on Wednefday Lift of cutting and maiming, under
Lord Ellenborough's Ad. He quotted feveral cafes
in which it was decided under other laws, that the in-
didment muD contain an averment of fome fail as
the ground upon which the profecution veiled. be-
fore any mini/lion could legally take place ; the in-
diament did not aver that the profecutor was in the
ea of apprehending either of the prifoners, and
though in point of fad it might be fc ; and, on ac-
count of this deficiency, he fubmitted that the in-
diftment was not maintainable at law. His fecond
objedion was to the cafe of Ricbardfon only. The
instillment charged him with the joint commnlion of
the crime, though he was not prefent at the time.—
The aft of cutting the watchman by the hand of
White, was not proved to have been done in further-
ance of their original and joint intention, but was
incidentally confequential. and molt probably origi-
nated in the mind of that man at the moment.
Baron Glanittt and Judge Gaosa, both refined the
application on the firlt ground ; cm the fecond a cafe
was referved for the opintm of this Judges.
• Two prifoners, one lVnr. Croft, the father of the
other, a theamaker, aged 43. and the other Mt.
SwithGrofi, a lad about 15 years of age, his fon,
were indicted capitally, fOr having priAately Men a
box, containing leveret (hires, (locking;, handker-
fehieft, Sm. value 4os. the property of John Riggs,
a flatter (hoemaker, in the neighbourhood of Shore-
ditch, who was formerly the boy's mailer, and (m-
-ist other articles, the property of Mr. Riggs, fattiest.
and Ann Eaftes, his fervant maid, on the aoth of,
November lall, at eight o'clock in the evecing.
The greater part of the property was trared to the
/hops of different pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood
where they had been pledged or offered to be put in
pledge by a boy very like the prifoner, within an
hour after the things were miffed. At one of the
(hops the Profecutor came in at the very moment
when the Pawnbroker was holding up a fhirt to the
light for the purport of examining it ; the boy ran
out, but he could not (wear that be was the perfon.
Another perfon purfued and took the boy, who prov-
ed to be the younger of the two prifoners. Two men
and two women laid hold of the perfon, and the boy
efcaped for the moment, but was afterwards taken,
and his perfon was (worn to be the fame. Almoft
all the retraining part of the proptsty was found in
a bundle in the elder prifoner 's band; he raid it was
bis own property. His defence .alfo Dated, that his
fon told him that he found the property in White-
chapel road—that. he had interrogated the lad very
particularly about the manner in which he cater bi
them, and the youth perfilling in his f ory, he coat[
&red the property as his own.
The landlord of the houfe where the.fatke:lodg-
ed. and another perfon, gave him an exceitent cha-
railer.
The Jury deliberated about five minute*, and re-
turned the father—Not Guilty; the fon guilty of
Dealing only to the amount of 395.
Mr. Baron GRAMMA, however. cautioned the elder
prifoner to beware of the confequences of his being
brought into that Court again, under any charge, of
.a criminal natures
Alitabetb Dixon, alias O'Hara, was tried on 'a ca-
pital indiftment, for privately Dealing from the per-
son of John Ticket, :561. in Bank of England notes,
and tome other property. on the 6th of November 1 al
John Ticket was a warehouremant ;n the City, and
on his way home to Iflington, upon the night men-
tioned in the indictment, being an amorous twain
about 50, he met the fiepherdefe, now at the bar, on
the road, and, after tame ern&r preliminaries, they
'adjourned to an adjoining field. He Ihortly atter-
wardsfound out, chit the had been soling note:, of
his property, to the amount of t 561. with a guinea,
fome Giver, and a few tickets for admiflion to the
divertifements of Sadler's Wells. He charged the
lady with the theft, which the potitively denied; and
he then gave her in cultedy to the watchman. Tee
notes,however,could not be brought forth. Mr.Tickel
even returned to the field which had been fo recently
the fcene of his imprudence, to fearch for his pro-
perry : but alas I none was to be found. On his re-
turn to the :vetch houfe, however, probably from
fume principle of foli-itude for his annotation and
amufement, the Sadler's Wells tickets were fecretly
conveyed into his pocket by Come inviable hand.
Thomas Franklin, the conftable of the night. when
the prifoner was charged in cuftody, proved that his
own official refearches about her perfon were fo ex-
treme minute ape!' ferutinous, that he met have
6fou e property, if it had been any where about
bet... he Jury acquitted the ptifonet.
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