Star.
London, England, 1814-03-31 00:00:00

YORK, MARCH 22,

John Kippar was charged with robbing Robert
green, of his watch and snme silver, on the highway,
in the parish Rothwell, on Saturday, the 13th. of
November last.

Robert Green stated, that lie lived at Leeds, and
went to visit some friends at Woodlesford, on Satur-
day, the ,13th of November. Witness set off about six
o'clock in the evening ; it was a bright star-light
night ; when he had got to a place called Rothwell-
Haigh, he was stopped by a person•who 'mid a pistol
to his face, and said—" Your watch and your money,
or your brains." Witness told him he had neither
watch nor money : but the man said he was deter.
mined to have them—on which the witness told him,
if he mukt have them, iv,. might take them. The man
then took a watch, and from six to nine shillings in
silver, from him ; he also took some copper from
'him, and then directed him to go about his business.
The whole tram action occupied about five minutes.
Witness said, he took such notice of the features of
the person who stopped him, that he could swear pa-
sitively that the prisoner was the man. Witness stated,
that on the following day, in consequence of some in-
formation he had received, he went to a public house,
at Middleton, kept by a person of the name of Foster,
accompanied by a constable, where he saw the priso-
ner; he immediately recognised him as the person
who had robbed him, and directed the constable to
take him into custody. The prisoner was searched,
but no property that he could identify was found upon
him ; but in the corner where he had been sitting,
was found an handkerchief, containing two watches
1 and a loaded pistol. One of the watches was that
which he had been robbed of the preceding evening.
Benjamin Blackburn, and William Dawson, the
deputy constable of Rothwell, corroborated the evi-
dence of the last witness.
• The prisoner said he should make no observations
on the evidence which had been given against him ;—*
he should only draw the attention of the Court to the
cruel and barbarows treatment he received after he
was taken into custody at Middleton, Not choosing
to walk tOßothwell, to which place they wished him
to go, they procured a cart-rope, and he was dragged
along the road by twenty men, like a wild beast.—
When be arrived at the public house he was still con:
fined with the rope round his body, and his hands so
closely hanckutled as to give him the most intolerable ,

pain. IA this situation, both tintind with the rope 1
and fettered, he was insulted, struck at, and other+
wise ill-treated by a number of persons in the house ;
and when he complained of this treatment, the con-
stable told him, he would punish him still more. In
short, his suffering and pain were so excruciating,
that he entreated them to shoot him, and put him out
of his misery. At last two Gentlemen came in, and
procured some remission of hi 3 torture. The prisoner
concluded with stating, that he was in such misery,
that at that time if he could have procured any instru-
ment, he should have taken away his own life, and
saved them the trouble of appearing in that Court
against him.
The prisoner's voice, wkich had been firm during
this address, faultered at the last sentence, and he ap.
peared softened, even to tears ; buthe soon recovered
his firmness.

After the Judge had summed up the evidence, the
Jury, without a moment's hesitation, found the priso-
ner Guilty.
He was then tried upon another indictment, char-
ging him with a similar offence, committed the same
evening, near the Fame place, on the person (if John
Wing Walker, whom he was charged with having
robbed of a silver stop-watch, and from ten to fourteen
shillings in silver. The Jury found the prisoner guilty,