Star.
London, England, 1806-09-24 00:00:00

OLD 11.1ILFr.

On Saturday twelve ptil.rers were tried, one of
Whom was capitally convicted, viz. D. Drew, for
Steiner a geldings the property of J Horton.
Eight were consided of felonies, vie.
t'. Ilaptifte, for Reading a decanter, sad ether articles, the pro.
nerve of Thomas Jervis', Eat fireteneed to be tranfported for (even
yews.
Mary• Good, for Reath,' three flirts, and other, Ankles, the
pruperty of J -Whitby.
Agee Bunting. for (leafing two gownr, a filk pettkoat, and
cans ntiches, the property of E. Early.
Vathanue Wilfoo, for ikabog cab. of bacon, the ptoperty
of
J. Dodd& And
J. facer. for Arabia pocket-book. and a Elver pencil cafe, the
property of C. Scheittce.
Sarah Hayward, a woman of the town, was capi.l
tally indieted for !leafing in the dwelling bottle, a I
elver watt+, vales above acis. from the pram of
George Rich. and his property.
The Profecutor laid, that he met the prifoner upon
Wert tnin net -by idge on the night of the 7th of Avid.
She eked hem fora glafs of ale, with which he
treated her ; and they afterwards repaired to a bottle
ip Whiterwolie.liteel, where the Profecutor laid his ,
watch upon a table, which the priluner transferred
to her pocket. The Profecutor never miffedshis
watch until it was ton late, and the Prifoner com-
pletely
out of reach ; however, having given infor-
elation of Iris) fs at the Police Office, Hayward was
taken five night; afterwards, with the watch ii her
paeffion.—The Ptifoner, in her defence, laid the
Profecutor gave her the watch in lieu of money.
Sir ssnow La BLANC Obrer,Cd to the Jury, that
the capital charge was done sway, as the property
was nut ender the pritteiSinn of the dwelling-hoefe,
but of the Profeeutor's perfim ; the larceny, however,
teemed proved beyond all quellion.—Verdiet—Guilo
of )(ohms laterally.
Mary :salter was indicted for felonioully Reeling,
MI the 25th of Jnly, a metal watch, with fee, ribbon,
and keycexhie el. the property of William Mediu
The profecutor, it appeared, is a young man, of.
fiftant at a dreggill's, No. go, Fleet-flreei. He was
returning home about twelve o'clock at night, and
Bad jolt iung the bell, when the Filmier, a thorough.
paced votary of the C:yprian goddefs, ran tip so him,
put one arm about his neck, and precipitating the
Other towards his fob, divelfed him of the article
Rated in the indidment. He immediately laid hold
ef her, and charged her with having taken pollillion
yrf his time-piece; this, however, the floutly de-
Med. The profecutor then invoked the aid of the
guardians of the night; they feiaed the gentle depre-
dator. and conveyed bar to the temple of their noc-
turnal jurifirsetion.
Li.. twit% brought to the water honk, die again
denied having or knowing any thing of the Gentle-
man's watch. Not yielding, however, implicit cre-
dit to her alieverations, they determined to convince
titeenfelves, and even proceeded to lurch her per-
fon t &le pockets the appeared to have none ; but en
farther exploring the prernifes, a pocket was direct-
veered in front, which learned tc have been recently
forced into that fituation. In this, Marlh's watch
was found, together with a few pieces of Silver coin.
time.lthe with its appendages, WAS pro.
ier.
deiced, and fads *doily identified by the profccutor.
In her defence, the prifoner firit alledged, that the
prosecutor was intoxicated at the time; sod fecond-
I 1
y, that the mifunderßanding of the watch area
out of a fpeculation in the way of her ordinary ire.
tle, but extra projejfonal on the part of the young
C. mSemen, Mr. Mirth admitted that he was ra-
sher effeded by what he had taken that night, but
by no means to Such a degree as mull be inferred
from the rwifotwr's Wit vations.
The fircosvia remarked, that the eircumflance
of the prifoner having denied taking the watch, be-
*see the was &arched, was a flrong confiderath,n
WO her. The charge was laid as a tingle felony.'
The Jury found the prifoner
On her hearing the verdie, the prifoner claimed
the reilitution of her property which the Officers had
withheld, and ofed the moll unbecoming and ;trio'.
tillable language.
(Laser She was tried on an indiament, for fe-
loniottfly forging and cou:nerfeidng, and uttering
the fame, knowing it to be fo forged and comfier.
feited, a certain paper writing, purporting to be the
kit will and teflament of William Cooper, formerly
a fearean on hoard the Belifarius of Liverpool, and
who was drowned in the year 1799, in his voyage to
Ilamborgh ; with intent to defraud H. Cooper of
Kt:lrwin, in the Orkneys.
The prifoner, an old woman, lived in Wapping for
many years. She kept a /hop, and had rieslings with
many treating people. The &reefed, Cooper, had
long been in the habit of frequenting her houle, al-
ways taking up his abode there when at home. In
the year 5798 he went on board a merchant (hip in
sky River. called the Setif:trios, bound to Liverpool.
in which he fahed. From Liverpool the went North-
%boot to Hamhurgh, and, in fpring of the following
year, Cooper was unfortunately drowned in the Elbe.
Imelligence of his death was communicated to the
prifoner by her fon. alto on board the Belifaritts, and
the Pantie!' nerdy after proved at Doetuti' Commons
a will, purporting to be the will of the dectafed, be-
queathing all his property, a hook, and a confider able
rum in the funds, to the prifoner. It was only lately
that a fccond enufin of the deceafed,an inhabitant of,
the town of Kitkwali, in Orkney. heard of the de-
mile of his relation I end underltanding lie had left
ptePerty to a confiderable itnount, he came to Lon-
don, and begin to Stir in the bufinefi. With this
view be friend out the prifoner. his coufin's Cole exa
fluor, and fent a perfon to demand as infpeeTion of ,
the probate of the will. This fatisfedion he obtained.'
after a good dee) of difficulty. He obierved the will
was acceded by (Mr. Coombe, 'a refpeetable attor-
ney, tefidiog in Simplon's gareens, and by his clerk,
Mr. Arnie; but upon making the requifite enquiries
of thofe Gentlemen, they both pofitively denied'i ay.
leg nulled Cooper's will, or that they had either
ever brows art ken him; and shaft awing negatives
they repented on the trial bens* the Jury. L• vi.
was then produced. tending to inspects the
Jury that the detested bad a great regard for the
ptifontr. It was folly made oat, that (be had the
charge of all his money ; that Eke received by his
fpecial authority and dimities the rents of his hear:,
which Else occalionally repaired ; and it eras alto
(worn, that he had proesifed to make her his wife on
his mom from his laft voyage.
11. Cooper, the pcifon againh whom the Witt.

i merit +(fledged the fraud to have been intended,coold
not prove himtclf to h her at law to the decals/.
but met ely that be was* relation of his,
Sir Simon Ls Bt,aiii therefore tild the Jury, tbe,a
their mutt aiqttit the prifoner. as ilia principal ale
leineor was not proved—Verdiet,'Not Guilty
Hamm% alias Lieu Cabe/O, was capitally indieed
(Anne wilfbl murder of her female Isaflard child on
Sunday. the t3th rf July 1011, in Sr. Luke's parills.
The prifoser was a widow. having loft her. hufband
I four years ago. On the Morning of the day men-
tioned in the indierrent t the lodged in the Threejolly
Weavers public book, Brieklene). (he felt berfelf
very uneafy, and called to-a Mrs. Gibbon, who was
alto a lodger in the farne honk, to get her Tome beer.
Mr Gibbon thought it was highly improper for her
to drink beer fo early in the morning, between lyres
and eight o'clock, and recommended the mote po.
, tent, nd invigorating liquor called gin. According-
ly, they had a glars each, and Mrs. Gibbon re
tired, leaving the prifoser afleep upon her bed. It
would appear, that in the interval, the had delivered
!herfelf of a female child. We (ball not difitufl
our Readers with a detail of all the circuit)-
; Nance' which led to this tufpicion. It will be
quite fufficient for us to (late, that the denied having
brought forth an infant ;—that was. however. loon
I put beyond all queflion, by its 'being found in the
bed, lying upon tome lacks, on which the prifoner
repofed. It was quite dead, and meanly wrapped
tip in a piece of coatfe cloth. She then admitted the
fail, but refuted to difclote the name of the child's
father, raying he was a 44 married man," and of courfe
not 't her property." It was futpeeed the had drowned I
the miferable creature, as there was a tub, half full
of ditcoloured water, in the room ; but all idea of
this kind was diflipated by the evidence of the fur-
-1 genn, who infpeeed the child loon after it was found.
He declared there were no marks of violence upon
it+ body, neither was it wet. Its lungs were inflated,
I but that was fo nneettain a point, that he could not
decide whether the infant had been born dead or alive. i
Mr. Baron Sur row, in his addrefs to the Jury,
recommended them to difmifs from their minds the
capital part of the charge, that of murder, as there
was evidently no fatisfaeory proof on that point.—
The only queflion which they would, therefore, have
to detetnsine by their verdict. would be, whether or
not the prifrioer had committed the offence of con-
cealing the birth of the infant l and he thought that
had been fully made out. In that cafe the law pro.
Tided a more lenient punifhment, in the difcretion of
the Court, fubjeeing the prifoner to imptifonment
for two years at the utmoil.
The Jury accordingly acquitted the prifoner of
the charge of murder, finding her guilty of conceal-
ing the birth.
On Monday fourteen prifimers were tried, four of
whom wers•capitally eonvieed,
George Ford, for Ruling a quantity of linen cloth, and other
ankles, value c.a. and upwards in the dwelling honk of Mein.
C.hriftopher WSW; Homy Whim, WUliaar Wilkus,assel Theses
Wefts&
O'Dolllllk TM! ',vista, AVD OTNIIS.
J. OToviteD, Ow celebrated NAOMI) J. Gorr, and Samuel I
Carter, for breaking and etstering the slweningdsook, with Intent
to Real, aed there adloany Reeling 601 of Batik-note, the vie
petty of Mr. Krewb.ll.who keeps the Woreelter Colleekwore Tap.
it appeared in redeem that the profecutor rim*lo tillepine
under ground, having no communication with the Coffm-h00f.,1
whets was kept by a Mr Shepherd. On going down Rain, the
irk place was the tap room, Oil tbc left band of which was the
her. On the right was a (mall parlour, repeated from the main
parlour by a doer-way, bat on which there was ma door. Beyond
this parlour was a bed room, the deg of which was /eked. he
the bed-room was an eferutoire, in which Mr. K. kept his papers,
receipts, and mosey.
Mrs. Woodley, one of the wiuxern, 1514 the bad at all times
aced to the cfcrutoire, the having the management of the prole-
Clitoel benne& On the morning of the 29th of Auguß, at half
pail 6 o'clock, the was certain the had heed else door of this of.
erutoire, in which the knew were evoked one Sol. note, one
tc,L note, a sl note, and revert! al. and IL notes, amounting ca
about 6. L in all, She knew the two prifoners, Gore and O'Doei.
nell, whom the raw at the Tsp tin the 29th of Auguß—Gore in
the morning, and O'Donnell Melee evening. Cuddiford was with
Gore 5n the morning, and O'Donnell accompanied them in the
' evening. After O'Donnell carne down in the evening, Gore (at
fornetirnes in the 'rap, Comedies In the parlour, Cuddiford drink-
ing with him. She did are know nor tit Caner at the
tiwa—
O Donnell was dancing, laughing, and tinging, deep the time he
was there. On going to bed, the found the door of the bed mom
open, that the eicenoire tad been broken into, the bolts Randing
uptight, and that the money was spne.
Mr. Kendall, the Mailer nr the tap, alto proved that the led-
room door waste/keyed at half-pall 6 in the morning.
CuelitOrd,the approver, who When occafinsially employed as
a porter the Weedier ttree-heufe, raid Le Lad known (;ore up-
ward. of 6 year,. He lived with Ida father, who was a baker in
Bond-rtrect. on the morning of Aug.2B,be met him ring for raft
to his father, and eked Mm to taKe a walk. He then Informed
him that he knew where fume money was to be had. Gore aked
wltere--Tbe where red him there was a good deal in the erne.
Gore then anted the witnefs if they could not meet again nee
mottling Ito *bah the althea strented. When they accortlitgly
met on the following morning. Gore eked the witch If he had
tbooshe any more of what he had been leaking of yelterday ?The
wins& 'Digested ill the affirmative, and that he we certain money
was in the bed-room. 'l'hey met together at the Cellar, that day
at noon. Mr Kendall and Mrs Wonalley were there. They called
for combing to drink, bat nothing paired at the moment. The.
key was hanging infideld the bar. 'I he witneksuok it down un-
perceived, and gave It to Gore. Gore took it, and went to the
door--on coming bah, be raid the door was open, and he
thought he could do it. He again went in, and loon returned,
raving, be bid broken a pair of reirrars, and a Mak In the 10ck"...
They met again, between ken and eight o'clock in the evening.
—Gore Laid, he would go and look for O'Donnell, while the
wieners went to Tottenham:Court-road with a trunk. On his re-
turn, the wands went down to get Comehing to cat. Gore came
aril, eel O'Donnell and Carter, wham the winters nightly knew,
came afterwards. Caner came very gukkly, and immediately
went to the b&I-room, when O'Donnell began tinging and dancing,
and Gee Rood In thcpteway,betweeti the parlour and bed room.
The wieners did not fee Carter afterwards for ten minutes or a
quarter of an hour. Kendall was then with the writers. Carter then
came qUiCkIY outof the room, and ran up Rake, O'Donnell fol.•
hawing hint, stiel Gore following O'Donnell The winters fat with
kir Kendall for about eight or ten minutes, till Gore came and
beckoned on hint to ecene up. O'Donnell then told the wired,.
they had got ad. They Remick the tonic ; went to the Hoek
and Dolpliia, St. Martin's (tree. where they bad three bottles of
wine, and eaten. O'Donnell gave the.witoefg (even guineas, a. his
Blare of the booty. Gore came to the whack at keen o'cloCk nest
morning, eking him it he had been yonder, wailing de cellar.—
The witneh Paid he had not. Gore edema that was wrong, as
his abfenee would create fufpleion. The withers went to Me cellar
in the evening. (fore alto was there, and the neicers came In
They laid they wanted a Krim named Anthony Mann. Gore,
otthreng them in at him,faid he fuppokd they wanted him to..
The wired* was then going out, and es they were raltlig oaie
up gales, hat nipped Into the pocket of Core's w:.n was
-then In company, liven gainers, which kg had received from
O'Donnell witnek was info taken into cußody with the
eery; and when carried so the office, was admitted as evidence.
The officers, by whew the pauses; were apprehended, corm-
bested ma. y of ter.: fele.
('Donnell, in his defence, preferred hb innocence of the charge
imputed to him, and maintained that the money found on bins
Man his own property, which he accounted for by Rating that be
bad lately (ought two battles. by which be gained tool.
owe ailo declared thee he knew nothing at the matter.
Many witnenk sof rerpeoftability gave him an cast Item charade,
Satins that he worked with his father, a baker in Bund-Areet, to
whom be bad alau ravel au apeentielbip.

Afters wry Mlle& charge from Ste MANNUI &MVO!. , the
Jury returned • vardiet, finding all the prifoncts Guilty of Swiss
to the dwellhatisoufe, bet rot of breaking and eon:riot. ba die
way. howew.r, the crime is a capital effence.
Eight.we re convidled of ftiontees viz.
. Sufaneah Taylor, for Railings watth, the property of S Wirt t
T. Coakley, for fleeting an iron cramp. and dike &nicks. thin pew,
pert), of T. M`Millan ; W. Seaman. for Reeling twa emits, the'
property of Lady Hawke; Anti Butcher, for fteallni a quantity
of wearing apparel, the property of H. How; 0. Johofen, for
Rating a box, contalitieg Bank notes. value 131 the property of I
J hell; F. Browning. alias firownett, fur Reeling a quantity of
bed furniture, the property of 0 Smiths...od
Mary Gunton, a married w metals an advaaced flan of pn.g.
nanny. who was Indleted for breakit:g and tonna,• the dwell mg
!vote of Sam Johrfon. In the day time, no porton being therein. •
and &elicit a black 61k gown. The parties lived neat done to each
oth et in Stag's Gardens. Well m inftcr, ant I in :he alternate of the sth
of July, the proferator and his wife went oat, having left the hook
in a proper flare of [nude!. They ohferved tooling remarkable
till the sth, when Mn. JOhnfon eximined a drawer where the had
dm:meted a bbek (ilk gown tame days before. mad 41.fecivered that
it was geese. Surpetalog the prifuot r, the gat a (earth warrant ;
the gown was traced to a pawnbruk er's. where Ithad hero pledged •
by the prifoner, who fahl if Mr. Johtifon would etse hurt her. the ;
would return it. The Jury humid her guilty of grand larceny,and 1
the pro(ecotor memo ended her to mercy on account of elk dil 1
trefred fituation in which the and her hufband bad been a long
dme„he tying unable to work uvriog to a bad lug. The Court
faid the reeenuuesdatiost fhou'd be attended to ; but the indifpo
fition of her Maud was not to be snowed as any Cltentlatilli of
i the offence.
Mary Male was torwided of a mikkencanout , in obtaining two
(even iblUing pieces, h.c. by falfe pretences tenni T. Darnfield.
James Geodhall was charged with felontoolly Itcallng on the
9th July two (even Milling pkeet and fixpetice,the monies of Jo-
kph Fdgland and Co.
It appeared that the prifoner,a genteel lostinnotang man.lived
as clerk with the protecutors, who are adman exert in Fleet-
, erect. Mr. Edgeland, who opplorod es the part of the firm,
r Mired from time to time, a coni. qwessety of money from
his till --he had no doubt of Me being robbed to, a very large
amount. The prifuner, es Iloprood, had accefs to the till. In coo-
'egotism of the furnaces Ise Meenained, he caufed the Film es
to be taken into tuftnely on Wednefday the 9:h ;hut no Ills ittheigly
interceding that he mould not be fent to a public prifon before his
friends %mild be acquainted with his flotation, the peek:cuter*
contested that be &mild remain in confinemeot ill a room of Mr.
Edge(and'a houfe. On the t nth of July, two days after he wYr
taken up, Mr. Edgeland liked him, in the prefanc of two other
perfous, what matey of his be had in his pothlhou ? On which
1 the prifonor took out two (even Ogling pieces and flepereo, as
charged in the indittenent, sad handed them to Mr. E. He laid
he took that money out of the till on Wednefilay, and iso mon
on that day. He afterwards acknowkdgedthat be Weak& out
a great deal of money at different times, and begged for the mercy
of the Profecuturs.
On his erefaexaminstlen, by the Prifoner's College', Mr. lido
1 awl denied that any person was ever employed, or amboriful by
him, to treat with the Prifoner's father or his friends, for tic pup
pore of buying off the profteut lon.
IThe Prifuner left his defence to his Coanfel, who examined (e-
-vent reputable pertain to the charader ea the Fames., which
they agreed in reprefeetiog ass very ;mod one.
Mr. Common Strj. ant KNowter knotted us the 'Warm, and
made a variety of pertinent remarks upon the cafe which he
feasted to think eflablithed agaiitit the Petit/nee. Should: the Jury
eu:ertain any doubts,they would then give the Partner the brae.
fit of that excellent haradter he bad received. The ludidlotent,
he oillemed, was not fuck as would sf redl the life of the Prifuner.
After a Mort deliberation. the Jury femod a verdid of—Gaily.
Ilk Prifonerltared his age to be 32.
Catherine W.lfon was indidtud for fekoloody ftehhing, on the
*Mk of September, niuc pounds of bang', value 35.6 d. the pro-
perty of James Do'dd
'fhe Pelletier, it appeared, was a dillnircd, and metier Merl,
woman. She cask into the Proteconat's, a clmehmissager's hop
to Ited-troktOreet, for a trifling article; while Mrs Dodd was
turning round tee fomething, after the had (creed the Prifemer,
tie tatter was lawn by one of the witneirm to take the piece or
bacon in queftion,which lay on the counter, and put it under her
apron. She then writhed ow with it, bet had not gone f.t before
flu was brought hack be fame of the Peofeestor's people, who
were immediately apprifed of the theft. She did roc. deny the
tag, hot laid Pie was driven to it throughextreme want.
The learned Judge obferved however pititable lath a motive
way be. it could not be tolerated as an adequate defence in law,
the Joey were co: Attained to Ind the poor crowns Gilley.

TRIMIOODOVS Srerest....kkhough the tempeft experienced In
the neighNourhood of Holt on the t ttb inflate, wan but of lIIM/1
duration it is not lathe power ot language to give an adequate ids a
o!' the tremendous recite the thunder and lightning precinct.—
About cleveu o'clock In the forenoon a heavy flower of rain came
on from the weft, attended by two diftwat claps of thunder. The
cloud gaffed towards the E. N.B.anti became, is an untifiral man-
ner flationary. A Oust celfation of the rain was foceorded by
loch a vatiablenefs Id the wind as we never before witneffed. The
wind Sting at loft In the E. N. E. brought the cloud rapidly back
over the fame (poetic had before vifitol. The blackest(' exceed.
ingly inert:tied, and the body of the cloud lowered very confider-
ahly towanls the earth. It was now perceived to he filled with
eledric fluid, which It fent forth in three terrible dlfeharget -.-
Every book was Olakert, and every beholder quaked with (tar,
expettingeach time to view Tome defolating effect. At the recent
difcharge, a (bull portion of cledtric fluid fell within afew yards
of the (ter. J. BorreWs houfe, at Letheringfet, and diftpsted
a hang like that of hot iron when quenching in water. But
the principal body fell en Wiveton Church, dillant shoot two
miles and a half towards the Nord, which it appears to have
Muck in various diredions. 'fie lugelt portion (tweed into the
church on the forth fide, carrying with it part of the Wall. The
ptertatle, at the feuds-es* comer of the fteeple, was thrown
down. In the church the fluid leans to have been agitated In
all dlredions againft the walls fume place* tearing down
the Matter, In others leavings troche. fs, as if evaporated in (stoke
ThOprincipal cfcape was through the upper window, near the
fteeple, on the north fide, which was entirely deltroyed ; the other
north windows were nightly damaged. The tided difeb-argc fcii
upon a farm houfe, occupied by Mr. Emery, at 4 etheringtet. One
part pallid down the Esitern chimney into the kitchen, and killed
• dog, which was Declares with it. head on Mr. Emery's foot,from
whence it pallid in the form of conglomerated (moist, thrtwek a
pillage into the Weltens rooms of the hook. kitchen was
filled with luipharie fmoke, but fortunately. though four or .11.0
perfons were fitting around the fire and (when ltandirg In the
room, nn pertonal injury wt. fuftaltied by sof of them. The
ideelrie fluid had alto entered the Smith wall of the bowie. home.
diallely under the roof, and carrying with it defolation to the doors
sod windows, and the &fleeing of the walE, threw demo the
chlemey at the Wet gable, tapioca the whole of the tiling, sod
defecated by the walls into the lower apartments. where it equally
deftroyed the whole of the windows; through which, and a door
whit* was Glut, It (cams to have Writ in a cloud of Crooke, which
entirely concealed the hoofs from the fight of Mr. Biarcll's fa-
mily, whole windows are tiredly (routing, at the diftance of Zoo
yards : —The wainkotting of the parlour was torn to pieces,
and the oaken toot flails anti window frames had large feigners
driven from them. The egrets in this inTtanee was on the fame
, fide with its Wird, I there were no windows to the north in-
Jared. and an outward door on dn. lido flood open. It Is alto re,
markable, that the Itylm of two dills at Mr. Emery's. and that of
the dial of Wlveten fasurch. &cask, not be in the halt alreeted.—
Prom the coocurion of the air, five (quires or ears wen broken
Is Mr. Burretl's hark. Another Farm lunge at Letheringfet, (Mt.
Cohen%) which was confider/ bly riot by lightning about 24 years
anat, was cracked Is one of its wall*—und the bodes in the hall-
. farm (tables are hid to have fallen oat their knees. During the MS •
I pelt the rain poured in torrents through the air. All became clear
and calm again shout t a o'clock.