Star.
London, England, 1822-04-27 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSION&
419

Wednesday, John Mackink Collins, a :gumm—
ing fellow, about 40 years of age, was indicted for
marrying Jane Blanks, Elizabeth Mason, his former
wife, being then alive.--The first witness called was
John Bloomfield he lived in Bartholomew-terrace,
City-road ; saw the prisoner married to Elizabeth
Mason. Witness believes she was possessed of 4.400.
They had one child.
Elizabeth Carter, the sexton's assistant, produced
the register of the marriage from the parish of St)
Matthew, Bethnal-green.
Jane Blanks knew the prisoner ; he went to Church
with her in June, 1821; said he was a widower, and
a man of property ; told witness. he had formerly
married a black woman, who had died in his arms ;
witness knew him three months before he married her.
Lazarus Blanks, father of the last witness, con-
, firmed her testimony.
Elizabeth Mason, a very handsome yoaftg woman,
as called, in order to be identified ; she held in her
arms a beautiful child ; she was much affected.
The prisoner in his defence said, that Blanks and
her father knew that he was a married man, and that
Mr. Blanks first knew him when he was confined in
Chelmsford Jail for debt; he said that his wife was
living in London with other men. He charted both
the Blanks with perjury.
The RECORDER, in summing up, observed, that
formerly this offence only fell ender ecclesiastical
censure; but on account of the frequency of the
crime, it was made transportable. It was quite evi-
sient that the prisoner had been guilty of perjury,
when he procured the license at Doctors' Commons.
The Jury deliberated a few minutes, but on being
informed there were two other indictments for similar
offences, they instantly returned a verdict of—Gaiky.
The RECORDER told him that he was a vile fellow,
who had made it the business of his life to seduce re-
spectable young women, and spend their money,
thereby ruining, their prospects for ever. He had
been guilty of the vilest perjury, both in proctuing
the license and at the altar of GOD, when he swore
there was-" no impediment," Sec. and it was not fit such
a person should remain in this country,--Transported
for seven years.
-Thursday, Captain R. B Johnson was put to the
Bar, charged with stealing a no Bank note, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Nelly Proby, in her dwellinrhouse, at
Hampstead ; but on being called the prosecutrix did
not appear, and her recognizance was ordered to be
estrcated, and the Captain to be discharged. He ap-
peared to have a long written defence in his hand.
Edmund Desmond and John Davis, too very young
lads, stood indicted for burglariously breaking and en-
tering the dwelling-house of Mn Russell, an eminent
law-stationer, in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's-Inn,
and stealing therein two watches, and upwards of
£so.—Guilty—Death.
The RECO Rag n (Mr. Knowz.vs)immediately desired
the Officer to call them up for judgment. Desmond,
upon hearing this, seemed convulsed with horror, and
was obliged to be supported by one of the officers.—
He then addressed the prisoners to the following effect :
" Edward Desmond and John Davis, you have been convicted
of a burglary, in the commission of which property to a consider-
able amount has bean stolen, and it has been attended with cir-
Curnstances of great audacity and aggravation. You entered the
dwelling house of these persons, situate as it is in the heart of
the metropolis, in the dead of night, with a determination to
plunder to any extent that opportunity would permit, and pre.
pared to commit any outrage, even to the crime of murder, upon
those who might resist you. It is well for you that the alarm
was given so soon, and the attention to it so prompt, or you
world perhaps have had even a heavier crime to answer for in
this wait!, and in the next, than that of which you have been
convicted; for it is apparent enough that you and your com-
panions would nut have hesitated to deprive a fellow-creature
of life, rather than your purpose should have been frustrated.
Under these circumstances it is impossible for the Court to foresee
that the determination of his Majesty in Conseil upon your case
will be otherwise than unfavourable. It cannot, consistent with
Its duty, hold out to you any hope of escaping from the full exc-
eption of the sentence I am about to pass upon you. You will
have an opportunity of preparing for another world, under the
care and instruction of a Reverend Gentleman, whom the law
has humanely provided for persons in your situation. I implore
you, therefore, to lose no time, but, from the moment you go
from this bar, to have recourse to him, and to seek for mercy in
that quarter whence alone you can expect it !"
The sentence was then passed in the usual form,
and the prisoners were removed. Desmond was sup-
ported out of Court. Two or three females fainted.
The -unfortunate delinquents are the sons of respect-
able parents living near the place where the burglary
was committed.
John Nightingale stood indicted for wilful anctcor-
rupt perjury, in having sworn, on the 22d of Decem-
ber, that he was not present at the waggon-office of
Messrs. Russell on the day named in the indictment,
in company with a man named John Paynter, a por-
ter in the house of Messrs. Perring, and who had been
sent with a parcel containing L 1360. The circum-
stances of the case were detailed in this Paper on the
trial of Paynter.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Re-
CORD= sentenced him to be imprisoned six months
in Newgate, and then to be transported for seven years.
Friday, Thomas Eden was indicted for feloniously
stealing eighteen sovereigns from John Matthews.
A witness proved that they were in company on
the night of the alleged robbery ; but in his cross.
examination by Mr. ANDREWS, he admitted that the
prisoner stated in public company that he found the
purse and eighteen sovereigns in the room, and that
Matthews did not complain of having lost anything.
He believed both parties were intoxicated.
The prisoner's employer, and several other respect-
able persons, gave him a most excellent character.
.—The Jury expressed themselves satisfied ; but the
Judge,Mr.ARABIN, interfered, and with great minute.
ness read over the evidence, and informed them that,
to pick up a purse, and not to return it to the owner,
was as complete a felony as picking a pocket.
The Jury deliberated fora quarter of an hour, and
then requested to retire, when the Judge again ad-
dressed them, and observed, that if they believed the
prisoner had the money in his possession, it mattered
not how he came by it.
The Jury then retired for an hour, and afterwards
returned a verdict of Guilty.
Thomas Short was indicted for stealing the model
of a Revenue Cutter, the property of Robt. Williams.
Several witnesses were examined, and the fact was
clearly proved against the prisoner, nho pleaded dis-
tress as the cause *of the robbery.—Guilty.
Frances Abrahams, a female of the Jewish persua-
sion, was indicted tor feloniously uttering, on the

ISth of March, ten counterfeit Winer, estirknow-
ing them to be so.-
-Mrs. Ransom was employs. ,
Officer, to make the putchalawlikk east her
witness having received the good money, which had
been previousir marked,went to retticoet-lane,where
she saw the prisoner, and asked ler.for "tea bobs,"
(shillings). She
%gave the base coin immediately to
the officer, who; in searching a chest of drawers in
dip prisoner's room, found 214 shillings, 209 six-
pences, and 111 half-crowns; ,all counteifeit, which
she said had been left in the room the day before by
a young man who was a stranger to her. The officer
saw a man in the yard of the house,who made a sig-
nal to the prisoner, but he effected his escape.
The prisoner made no defence, but called one per-
son who gave her a good character.—Guilty, and
sentenced to be confined one year in Newgate, and
to be fined one shilling.
Thentas Baxter stood indicted for selling to David
Edwards, on the 13th of April, twenty counterfkit
shillings, for six good ones. The Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.
The following Were convicted of felony—Mm. Neatness's,
aged 64, for stealing a quantity of corn ' • James. Perks, aged 24
for stealing five bottles of wine; Thomas Fowler, aged 20, for
stealing a coat ; John Gutteridge, aged 29, for stealing a tilizi
T. Goodman, aged SO, for stealing a pair of pantaloons ; bu
Hughes, aged 62, for stealing a copper; John Johnson, aged SS,
and John Christopher, aged 22, for stealing a handkerchief ;
Mary Kitchin, aged 17, for stealing two pewter pea; Robert
Bainbridge, aged 14, for stealing 141bs. of beef ; 6111.11111 r Lessard,
aged 74, for stealing five shilling ; Rebecca Monis aged 21, for
stealing a gown; and William Shearing, aged 92, for stealing
401bs. of lead.
John Franks was indicted for stealing two tea.
trays, the property of P. Hoist.
The prosecutor keeps a sale•shop in Whitecross.
street. On the morning of the 31st ult. his house
was on fire, and a number of thieves took advantage
of the confusion which prevailed, and plundered to
a considerable extent. The prisoner was stopped
about a quarter of a mile froni the house, with the
trays in his possession, valued at Cl.
Some witnesses gave the prisoner a good character,
and the Jury found him—Not
The following were also acquitted—Obadiah Lawless, aged
14. of stealing 141bs. of beef; and William Stephens, aged 22,
lot stealing 40lbs. of lead. _

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The man who refused to give his name, and who
stands charged with publishing, in a number of
The Republican, a libel, entitled " A Ann }ear's Ad:,
dress to the Reformers of Great Britain," was put to
the bar. He was very genteelly dressed, and ap-
peared careles% of his situation.
Mr. Samos the Clerk of the Arraigns, having conversed
with the Recorder, said to the prisoner, " Have you anything
more to say now than you did at the last Session r
Prisoner—Yes; what do you wish me to say? I wish now
to be tried.
Mr. Stratron—Are you guilty of the Indictment, or not.
Prisoner—l pleaded last Session.
The Recusant—No, you did not.
Mr. Summon—Will you give your name?
Prisoner—No, I will not.
Recoamm—Then you will be remanded if you will not give
your name. We will see whether you or the trots the struniest.
Prisoner—l have already been confined four months, and I
wish now to be tried. _ _

Itscomut—lf you will not give your name, the Court will
remand you. °Dicers take him away.
The prisoner was then taken from the bar, and
Mr:Murray and the respective Gentlemen concerned,
left the Court.
SURREY SESSIONS, APRIL 26.
One of the traverse cases excited considerable in-
terest and amusement. A young man was tried
upon an indictment. charging him with having as-
saulted the wife of Mr. -.

The prosecutria, Mrs. —, is a handsome young
woman, apparently not more than twenty-two, and
re,iding with her husband in Great Park-street. The
defendant is a tinker, and her brother-in-law, being
married to her husband's sister. Considerable in-
timacy, it appeared, had existed between the parties,
both before and after the marriage of the prosecutrix,
to- whom the defendant at all times was particularly
lantrallant, but as his wife was mostly present, the gal-
ies
were never carried to such a height as to ex-
cite suspicion. After the marriage of the fair pro-
secutrix, the conduct of the defendant was less equi-
vocal ; in short, his flame burst forth with great vio-
lence as soon as he conceived it might be quenched
without danger. The pro.ecutrix deposed, that the
defendant took an opportunity of calling on the 16th
of March last, in the absence of her husband, and of
declaring to her that he had been violently smitten
with her charms from the first moment that he had
seen her, and be had burnt long in secret, and im-
plored pity for the passion which she had inspired.
This took place in the front room of the first floor.
Her younger sister was there when the defendant
entered, but the prosecutriz said she desired her to
go down stairs. The defendant then made his de-
claration ; said he would be a friend and protector
to her all his life against the world, if she would, for
one night, allow him to take her husband's place;
and he proceeded to take such liberties with her per-
son as obliged her, she said, to scream out, when he
desisted. She described the circumstances which
were charged as constituting the assault with great
minuteness. After he had behaved in this wafter to
her, she bade him take his hat, leave the room, and
never shew his face there again.
Mr.TUATON, for the defendant, cross-examined the
prosecutrix with great ability. She said she had made
a mistake when she deposed that it was she who de-
sired her sister to leave the room upon the entrance
of the defendant. It was the defendant who had de-
sired Ifer sister to leave the zoom. The prosecutriz
continued : she said she did not rush out of it upon
witnessing his conduct. She was in her own room,
which it was not for ber to leave ; but she bade the
defendant quit it instantly. She went alone on the
next day (which was Sunday) and dined at the de-
.fendant's, with him and his wife. But it was to ace
his wife, and not to see him, that she went there. She
swore most positiiely that she had never sat upon the
defendant's knee, or kissed him, on any occasion. He
bad attempted something of the kind, but it was be-
fore the family, and she had resisted it successfully.
It appeared, further, that in the same house with the
prosecuttix lodged a single man with a Lad?!
The husband of the prosecutrix was, called, but it
appeared his intended evidence related to a subie-
quint transaction. He swore that fie had never seen
his wife kiss the defendant, on any occasion, of sit
upon his knee.
Mr. Turron, on behalf of the defendant, repre-
sented this as a case which was but• too common,
where a handsome woman had-listened with satisfv-

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fortunate and indistreet eV*,
that might belong to Outraged virtue. And the de-
fendant now stood at ,the ,Par for an assault, for.
sooth, upon a woman Whose delicacy was such as to,
allow her, to live under the same roof with a kept
mistress, and whose sense of the Outrage VAS SO high,
as to allow bee to go alone to dm Mow, anal
dine at the same table, on the next day, With the
man who had thus assaulted her, as she wOulkariatil
them to believe, in such an sopa:datable massnet..j...
To constitute an assault, it was necessary, in seek
case, not that the criminal or overt acts were such as
the husband might object to, but that they Should
against the will or consent of the Wife. The revolt
of this, he contended, was the case, and he hoped lb*
Jury would shew such Ladies, that if they, by their
conduct, invited such assaults, and got found out in
them, they were net to make a Court of Justice in-
strumeptal in shielding them from the properconse-
quences. An action tor damages would have been
preferred by the husband, but unfortunately he had
only his wife for his witness.—The Learned Counsel
was proceeding to call evidence for the purpose of
shewing, from the conduct of the prosecutes, subse-
quent to the alleged assault having been committed,
that she did not consider at that time the assault to
be of the outrageous nature now described, or express
ny angry feeling towards the defendant.
The CHAIRMAN refused to receive any evidence of
facts which took place subsequently to the day laid
in the indictment.
Mr. Towros then called the father of the defend-
ant, who stated that he kept a tinman's shop, and he
proved that on the day before the assault was stated
to have taken place, the prosecutris called at their
shop, and asked his son to call at her house to take
away a saucepan which had a hole in it. The witness
swore that he had seen the prosecutrii voluntarily sit
on the knee of his son Ig mere times than he had fin-
gers and toes," as well in the presence of her husband
as in his absence.
The CHAIRMAN, in summing up the evidence, re•
marked that it was singular that no one had heard
the prosecutris scream, as she described herself to
have done when assaulted ; although, from the speci-
men she had given of her voice in Court, her scream,
if she did scream, must have been faint indeed, not
to have been heard by the whole house.—The Jury
immediately found the defendant—Net Guilty.

Ma. Omni's DIVER—The Anniversary Dinner
of the Co-operative and E:onomical Society (founded
on this Gentleman's Plans), took place on Wednesday'
at Guildford-street East, Spafields, and was well and
respectably attended. The dinner was furnished in
a style of elegant economy, and consisted of good
substantial fare. After dinner, Mr. Owaw read his
principles upon which the lastitution was founded,
gave an account pf the advantages and progress of
the Society, and enlarged upon those evils which it
was intended to remove, and those blessings it was
calculated to difflise.. The CHAIRMAN and Mr JONES
spoke in a very able manner, and elicited much and
deserved applause.

BI RMS.
. Saturday, at Stonehouse, Mrs. Davis, of three fine boys, one of
whom with the mother, are dead ; the other two are doing well

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don to the praises sir liktiseiletr, and received but
with-the (mammary cajoles the penifestatien of the
passion-.criminal. certainly— sviiiih her charms had
inspired. But hem the idyllists' ltavins infortus"
irately come to the besban4 ehohn. d• elem.
state herself in his inrour, turned round tipton pow,-
fortunate and indiscreet wigbt, wr)ii all the !irtilence