Star.
London, England, 1822-09-23 00:00:00

Joseph and John satliliated; thinnislem with a
simple declaration of their inisocence. •
Edward Paine, a tobacco-pipe-maker., was in Craw-
ley's tap-room on the evening in.question, 'whenWin•
Satur Inv .lane Gibbs wa iniicted for stealing a Watson came in, and he remained in the nest settle
watch 1: oni the person of Paulo Rosa. to the witness at the time Crawley gave the alai m
The rim, csitor is an It itinerant vender of of " Stop thief!"
images. aad he met the i risrare'r at a public-house-in By the CouftT.,—Wm.: Watson.,
ran out at the time
Srintlitiehr He went .up Sharpe's-alley with her, the alarm was given. Witness did not go from Craw-
where she ti,,sk hi, watch, which was found in her ley's door at the cry of " Stop thief r because he
pocket b. the patrol who apprehended her. thought he had no-business with IL •
The defence was, that the watch was a deposit for • The ReCORDeII summed up the evidence, and the
certain favours granted at various times; that she had* Jury found Wm. Watson, Joseph Watson, and Purdom
been deserted by her husband, who had first sold all Guilty, and acquitted John Watson.
they had, and then left her with three children,which Sarah Medway was placed at the bar, charged in
drove her to the streets. Verdict—Gray. the indictment with felony, in having stolen and car-
Frank Purdom,William Corbett, alias Watson,John' tied away a table cloth and some spoons, the pro-
Meson, and Joseph Corbett, alias Watson, Were in- petty of the prosecutrix, who stated in her etidence
dieted for a burglary in the house of Tho'Crawley, that she had let some lodgings, together with the use
and stealing a quantity of sovereigns and other coins,, bf the articles in question, (among others), to a female
his property.
of the name of Morris, with whom the prisoner lived.
Thomas Crawley rents a house in White's-yard, Mr. C. PUILLirs took an objection to this indict-
Rosemary-lane. It was broken open on Tiresday, the I ment, which should have been, he submitted, under
30th id July. He did not know whether the window :the recent' Statute passed expressly with a view to
by which the entry was made was up or down that cases of this kind, and not under the common law
nigh t.:, It is on the first floor at the oack.of the house. form as for felony. The goods, for making away
He had seen the window about three hours before :iwith which the prisoner was charged, the prosecutrix
at that iiiie it was up. Elizabeth Press- ave him an I admitted to have let to Morris; they had, therefore,
alarm about halt-past nine, that his house hid been passed out of the control!' and custody of the true
robbed. fie beard that there was a man, and owner into the keeping of Morris, from whom the
three or four wish him, upthe gateway,with a ladder. prisoner had obtainedthem. The Learned• Counsel
Witness went up, and saw a light in his room,and he submitted, that under these circunistences no case of
asked-it that was the servaiit, but received no answer. felony was made out.
—A man behind him gave a whistle, and called out The Coldia•lN SaitilLANT told the Jury,. *it the
"Rover." Witness then saw a strange man's back in .objection appeared to him to be fatal; and after some
the room, and c.aled out ...Murder! lam robbed; the little hesitation, the Jury, under the instruction of the
people's pro,erty is gone.". The man then leaped out Court, which delivered a suitable admonition to the
of the wiltdon, and witness caught:him in his arms. prisoner, acquitted her.
They so uggled,. and others came to 'the mans assist- M. Holliday and Lee, two females, were put
ante, got hold of witness's leg, and they both fell ; to the bar, on a charge of stealing six pair of stays,'
the man was then rescued. To the best of his belief value 40s. One of the prisoners was, hOWever, so
Wihiam Corbett was the man. Witness was not struck dreadfully affected, that although a chair was Pro-
with violence ; they only srruggled to'get away. He vided for her, it was found impossible to sustain her
pursues them, calling out " Stop thief r He heard in it, and the Common Serjeant directed her to be
money in William Corbett's pocket jingling. They removed for the present. Her groans and sobs were,
were not taken till about three-quarters of an hour audible in the Court for some time after she had been
after. The pi isoners lived near him, and he knew carried out of it ; and it being out of the question to
Pal doiii and Joseph Corbett to be'the men who ran proceed with her Case,.
off with Wiiiiant Corlett. Witness laid, hold of-PUT- The CostmOm SERJIANT informed the Jury, It was
dom, and said, " You thief, you are the. man who with regret he must tell them, that notwithstanding
foynted.this plan." He made no reply, but tried to the length to which their labours had already, run, it
get away:. The people called out to witness not to ' was absolutely necessary that they should attend in
Jet him go; and he took him into the house, and sent :their placeson Monday morning for this particular case.
for a cinistable. He went up into. the room, • found Edward Oar. ber, alias Captain Barker, aliai the
his box mened and robbed, and a dark lanterivalight knowing Captain,"
,and William Goddard, were
.in-
in .it,. • They stole about 'l5 sovereigns, 40 'crown dieted for unlawfully, know ingly, and wickedly con:..
pieces, 4t) half crowns; *2OO shillings,*2oo sixpences, spiring-tt!gether,•teclifratidPraecis Lee of the sum
a silver watch, &c. in all about 1004 This money 40110.5 t 'against 'the statute. '
was laid Aside to pay his brewer ; and they knew that, Air. Arm win us stated the case.to the Jury for the
on-the I,t of. August, he.had to settle with the brewer. pi osecution, and characterized it as one of the most
He had never got any of his property again. The :audacious frauds that had ever come before a Court
same day he had 5.% in copper ociney,which he was of Justice. The Learned Counsel called the tollowing:
counting, and which took him a long time. During The gey. Francis Lee, residing in Hanszpilate,
this Purdom and William Corbett were in and out :Sloane-street, deposed, that in the•early pact of May
every minute, and they observed, 44 What a Wag last, in consequence of an advertisement in a•news-
(qualinty) of motley thereis!" While witness was paper, he neat. tollts.S, Whitefrians, to a stable
pursuing the *as. Purdoti laid hold.of him by the there, where be saw the defendant floddard, who
wrist with both hands, stopped him,.and said,." Craw- was apparently acting in the capacity of groom.--
ley, a bat's the matter with your Witnesi nsade no The two horses which were advertised were there,
answer, but sh •ok him off.. arid %skims,' 'examined them. A conversation took
Cross'-esa.s. isiea—He keeps the Bunch of ,Grapes. place• lietn een them upon the nierits 'of the horses,
or Two Bieweis, It. sennacy-lant. Thehouse assis a:. which Goddard described as two of the best hunteis
regular goodone. When he Went into it bad cha.: that ever were crossed, gave a long history of the
ratters resorted to it, but he had got rid of them. He pedigiee of them, and said his master would hot have
still persisted in.his.knou:iedge M tbeprisoners. • parted; with them for any money, but that he was
.Elizabeth Press lives in White's-yard, near the pro. compelled immediately to go abroad. Goddard went
secutor. On the night iu question she saw the pri- on to-say that hls master,•Captain Barber, was an of-
sows, whom she knew; in :the yard, about five :heer of theTioniskillenDragoons; that he, Goddard,
minutes before the robbery of Crawley's house. She had been lus.groorn ever since. he left.Mr; Tierney
went and told Crawley that there were Shies or four, &stuns,- the-banker, two years-ago ; and that he slid
Men in the yard, and directly after she heard-Oleo', mot intend 1;0 accompany 'the Captain; be 'should like
of " Stop thief r She then saw.fordom take hold- Vtlfy insets, to go **wherever the horses Kent, and
of Crawley as he was running 114cm:fine people.- She' :would '.be-glai to lave the witness
.if he. wanted a
did not know any of them ; they were ,strangers; pions. --While this conversation- was going on, the
Crass ley's window was open, bat Ate .saw no one defendant;' Barber, entered the stable; and told nearly
j amp out of it. . • Sattetto(y_tadihuF, that he had hunted the horses
Nary Press, sister of last witness, corroborated her 1411i:144 Middletout houndctwo er.three.ietisons,
testiniony. Sbe saw Purdorit with ,a ladder going and that they were woof thrbest things in England.
tow-aids 'Crawley's back window; but she lost sight of He ttilkeittbuilliaelyof dice:Nobleman and of other
him behind a cart. Two other men were 'visaing peistati Of rank. • The price demanded for the horses
about the yard. She afterwards jaw Purchim go•in at was.llls ;Pintas, but it was .agreed upon finally to
Ir was moonlight, and she knew him. be 1051.-if. upon a trial.w itness should fully approve
Mary Wood lives in Blue Anchor• yard, but %satin of them. - Barber requested witness to make a de-
a house in Whititryird on the night in question.— posit, linwe'vet Shut!, and then he said, no other per-
She saw Billy Watson run up the yard,with Crawley sort' should "see. she horses. Witness gave a check for
pursuing him and ichers. She did nut know the rest 51.-and wrote out a warranty dictated by Barber,
of them. There was money jingling in Watson's coat who signed it.. 44 Edward Barber, Avon Lodge,
pocket as lie-ran, and, by the sound, there appeared Stratford4ipon-Avon." He represented himself to be
to be a great deal of it. • ' a Captain in the ,Enniskillen Dragoons, and son.of a
Cross examined—lt was a dark night. The sound Gentleman of forme, the proprietor of Avon Lodge.
she heard was not the jingling of keys. On a subsequent day, naming the Bth of May, wit-
William Sitterton lives in Blue Anchor-yard, and mess went to try the horses, taking with him a rough-
was at his father's bed-room window on-the night in rider belonging to the Life*Guards, in. order to be,
question ;he knew the prisoners, theWatsons, but not assisted by his judgment. Jr happened, however,. to
Purdom; be saw William Watson running up the be an extremely wet day, and the horses were only
and Joseph Watson after him. Crawley fol- taken once up the street. Witness observed a lump
lowed•thenr, crying " Stop thief r Joseph wawa on the off fore-leg of one of them, and remarked it
was calling to him " Run it, you- to Barber, who said it was .a mere nothing, and as-
" Elizabeth Britten -taw John Watson and Pardon sured the witness," upon his word and honour as an
pressing in at Crawley's, and a little time after. she Officer and a Gentleman, there was nothing the mat-
-beard Crawley call out " Stop thief r.. She saw the ter with the horses, or he would have told him.—
. latter seize Purdom, and say to him, " You rascal, Witness said he should like to haie a further trial,
you are one of the thieves that robbed me." Purdom but Barber objected, repeating the asseveration " upon
. answered, " Don't say so, when you know I have his word and-honour," &c. Witness conceiving that
• been drinking.in your house all the evening." Win. he was dealing with ," an Officer and a Gentleman,"
Watson came up to her soon after with I pipe, smoak- agreed fur the purchase of the horses, and also hired
• ing as if he had just .o;pine out of a public-house, and Goddard as a groom. Basher then propOsed, that
asked her what wits the Matter ? She said that Craw- while Goddard was getting ready, they should go to
ley-had, been robbedi-aed :he 'went away. • his hotel and finish the business. Witness went with
Samuel Miller, an officer of Lambeth-street, took him to an hotel in Bouverie-street, where witness
charge of- Purdom' at Crawley's ; he went•the same wrote a draft upon Coutts and Co. for 1,300, and
night to `Watson's =ether, in Cable-street, and found laid it on the table. They had • been there about
. John in bed, 'with the candle burning ; Joseph came twenty minutes, when Barber thrust his hand. in a
.up at the time, and they took him, but they allowed , seemingly indifferent manner across the table, and
the boy John to r' main in bed on his proMise to at- took up the draft, at the same moment tiring from
tend at the office next Jay, but he did not ; he was his seat, and observing, that as he (witness) had only
taken by a' police officer a day or two after. I given Goddard three-quarters Of an hour to get ready,
c),Vatsb•was talEen -key day. Ihe would go and hasten him, that he might not be
afieses..Fortirue,--an er oth Otter, found a hat in the behind his time. He then left the room. Witness
. • - • found
• wed- opposite .to Crawley's. window,. but no one waited about half an hour, when he began to be
andlie did not know to whom it belonged, alarmed, and went out towards the stable.' At the
purclompntlin a.3yrittendefence, in which he said bottoms of the street hi found the tip horses, in the
be was .snoop in the taproom of Crawley's house at care of a.man nanied.Jones, but neither of the de-
she time of the robbery, of which he knew nothing. lendants was to be seen. He then instantly drove to
- Win. Watson said he wits drinking with two other Coutts's, where be was informed that his draft had
Gentlemen at the time of the robbery, in Crawley's. I not been patio, and be.daireithat it bight I* itapPid•