Star.
London, England, 1807-09-19 00:00:00

OLD BAILt r.

Thurfday 13 prifoners were tried,.one of whom
was capitally convifted, viz. .
John Green, who feemed, from the number of other
detainers again him, for charges nearly fimilar,
an expert depredator in this line, was capitally con
vised of flailing a metal watch, dome capped and
jewelled, value $l. the property of Henry Burton.—
Death.

Edward Cole and Yobs Square: were, after a very
tong trial, convicted of Heating a check, or order for
the payment of 1201. the property of Me(frs. Barry
and Wilkinfon, wine merchants in Mincing lane.
The cafe was apparently one of burglary, and the
evidence molily circumfiantial. The charge was not
laid capitally, and the Jury had no hefitation in con-
'idling the prifoners.
lyilliam Poteenham ?Wary was tonvided of Healing
fit pounds of lead, value ss. the property of Mars.
Peacock and Terry.
game: Jar& was indided for Healing in the dwell-
ing houfe of Meatus Anfley, William Pearce, and
George Anfley, in the parifh of St. George, Hano-
ver fquare, a piece of cotton furniture, value 4os. the
property of Mars. Anfley and P.arce.
It appeared that the prifoner had been employed
as a plaitterer, in the houfe occupied by Mars. An.
fley and Pearce, in Bond Itreet, and that he availed
himfelf of an opportuniiy to remove a piece of cot-
ton furniture, value three guineas, from the ware-
houfe into the pantry, from whence he was in the at
of carrying it away in his apron, when he was flop
ped by one of the young men in the wareroom.
In the courfe of the evidence, it came out that the
company had another warehoufe at 143, Strand,
where Mr. Thomas Anfley lived. The Learned Judge
who tried the cafe (Mr. Jutlice Lawrence) therefore
diretied the Jury to find the prifoner guilty of Heal-
ing only, as that could not be laid to be Mr. Thomas
Anfley's dwelling houfe in which he did not live.
The Jury accordingly found the prifoner guilty of
'tilling, but not in the dwelling }inure.
ka/mf/ey, and /Villiarar, privates in the
3d Guards, were capitally indicted for a burglary in
the dwelling houfe of James Winter, and Healing
therein five halfpence and two quarts of rum.
Mr. Winter Rated that he was a publican in Crofs-
fireet, Long Acre. The prironera had been quar-
tered on him between three and four months. He
had long fufpeded that they had robbed him, aad
on the morning of the 4th of July, his wife fat up till
three o'clock, in order to ditcover the thieves, but
without effed. When the came to bed, Winter got
up and defeendel to the parl.•tir, and about four
o'clock he heard both prifoncrs come down (lairs,
and go into the back yard, in order to dull their
clothes. One of them thrull his hand through a
fradured pane in the parlour window, and told his
comrade there was a double curtain infide. The
ot.ber went along the paffage to the flaircafe, and put
his hand through the back curtain, under whichWia-

•ter had concealed himfelf. He then Arent into the
tap room, and to the bar, which he forced open. He
llopped about a minute and a half, and took• Come half.
pence from the till. He then fancied the bar-door,and
went up Rain to his comrade, to "thorn. be Paid,,
4, All's well!" The prcffecutor then went for a Bow-1
flreet officer, who found them cleaning their clothes.
Under the head of the bed, a quart bottle of rum,
uncorked, was found, and on the bed a waiflcoat, be.
longing to Williams, in which were five halfpence
which had been marked the night before by Mr;
Winter, and depofited in the till with other money of
thf. fame kind. The prifoners were then conduded
to Bow flreet, and after undergoing an examination.
a farther fearch was made, and a fecond bottle of
rum, corked, was difc9vered in a hole in the floor, by
the bedfide. The halfpence were identified by Mrs.
Winter.

The prifoners, in their defence, declared themfelves
wholly innocent of the charge. There was no lock
on their roam door ; and'how the rum came there
they did not know.

The Seijeant of their company gave them charac-
ters for foldierlike conduCt ; but with regard to their
honefly he could not (peak.
The Jury found them guilty of larceny only, thus
doing away the capital part of the indiftment.
Margaret Home, and Elizabeth Cid aiias Frans, were
indieted for healing a piece of Itith linen, and five
pieces of fartnet ribbon, the property .of J.ln Alex
ander, a linen draper in flick lane, Bethhal Gieen,
-privately in his fhop.
. .
The evidence was fatisfaelory as to the priciners
having Itolen the above property, and Mr. Alexander
did not fee them take it. But Mr. Jultice Le &sic
obferved to the Jury, that in order the offence uf pri-
vately Healing thould be completed, according to the
Meaning of the Aft cf Pat liament in this cafe, it was
not enough that the goods were Bolen In that the mat
ter of the (hop did not fee it done, but fo as 'that no
peefon accuflomed to ferve in the (hop had ken it.
Now Mr. Alexander had fhopmen—they were not
here to give their evidence ; and therefore as they
might have Peen this aet of theft, the Jury would not
conclude that they did not, but would. in favour of
life. only find a verdict of guilty as to the larceny,
and would acquit the prifoners of the privately heal.
ing. which was the capital part of the charge.—
Guilty of (haling, but not privately. in the (hop.
Thomas Irefira was indieted for healing a box, con-
taining sl. in money, a Bridol Bank Note for si. and
four Bmik of England Notes, of tol. each. and two
51. &IA of England Notes, the property of Wm.
Lingard, in his dwelling honk.
The ewe for the prtfecution depended chiefly on
the evidence of Mrs. Lingard, and fame pan of the
evidence Oilier hutband.

The account of the hufband that he is the
landlord of the public haute called °chuck, at
Hammerfrnith ; that on Wednefda t 9th of Au.
gull tan, being .bout to go from home, he gave to
his wife all hi, Bank Notes ; four tol. Bank Notes—
two 51. Bank Notes—a Briftol Bank Note, and Come
other (mall Notes—the particulars of which he did
not recalled. He gave them all to her in the bar of,
1 the public hnufe, the Roe-buck, and nobody was
then in the bar but liimfelf, his wife, and the ;ni-
-1 toner Wetton, who faw him give his wife the notes,
and law her put them into a box in a drawer id-the'
bar, a place in which the is in the habit of keeping
her m ney. The prifoner is the proprietor and driver
of the Kea Rage, and had always borne a very good
charatter. The time this was done was particularly
fixed, on account of its being the day before the race
that was run on the Bath road, which the Profecutor
went to fee. When he returned from the race, he re-
ceived information from his wife of her having 101 l
this money. In confequence of the manner in which
the faid the had loft it, he went to Kew Bridge, which
is about a mile and a half from his haute, and there
he law the prifoner Welton.
Mrs. Lingard, the wife, fwore that the received
the above property, in notes and money, from her
hufband, on the 19th ; that at that time the prifoner
Hood dole to the door in the bar when the put the
property in a box, and then into a drawer in the bar.
She put in the property as loon as the received it,
and locked it up. On the fame evening (he put in 51.
whist' the had received, and that was in filver. No.
body was prefent when the received the money and
put it into the drawer but herfelf, her hufband, and
the prifoner. On the next day, about four in the
afternoon, the had opened the drawer with this money
in it, for the purpofe of putting in fume more flyer.
She had opened the box, faw the notes and flyer
then in the box; when at the infant came up the
Kew-bridge coach, the prifoner driving it. The
coach drew up to the door—the turned the key and
left it in the drawer, and went to attend to the coach.
She ferved a glaft of liquor to a perfon who came
into the houfe, from the coach, but the prifoner was
the only perfon who came into the bar. The other
perfon flood by the door *of the bar. She !midi did
not go out of the ear. (This was a circumtlance
which became extremely material, in confequence of
evidence called in behalf of the prifoner.) The man
(he gave the glafs of liquor to Rood in the door way,
but did not come within the bar—but the prifoner
flood within the bar dole to the drawer. She gave
change for a Wiling to the perfon who had the liquor
at the corner of the bar, and he went away direCtly,
fo that, according to her evidence, the prifoner was
the only perfon who was in the bar. Then when the
was giving this man change the heard a ruffling, and
called out twice to the prifoner, laying, " What are
you at ?" and fome table linen and foliate books which
were on the top of the drawer, had fallen down.—
The prifoner went out, got upon his coach, and then
drove away. She went to the drawer to put the filver
into the box, which the was about to do, when the
coach came up and prevented her from doing in. She
perceived that the box containing the above property
was gone. The whole tranfatlion did not take up
more than four or five minutes time.

On the part of the prifoner feveral witnelfes were
called, who dillinftly proved two material fags.
After the evidence had been gone through,
Mr. Judicc La &awe concluded an excellent and
appropriate charge. The Jury, after a (tort delibe•
ration—Acquitted the Prifoner.
Yetterday twenty.two prifuners were tried, two of
whom were capitally convieed, viz.
Can;arine Forreler, for flealing a cheek, the pro
perty of W. Tipple, privately, in his limp ; and
Eliza Kelly, for privately ftealing from the perfon
of J. Vincent, two guineas, one Chilling, and two fiA-
pcuces.

Matta Eadiey, a decent looking woman, fifty-
three years of age, dreffed in black, was put to the,
bar and arraigned upon an indiftmenr, charging her
with feloniontly having in her poffeffion a certain
forged note, purporting to be a bank note for 11.--.,
knowing it to be forged.
I. Mr. FIELDING hid, that by the dire ?nn ofthe Go-
vernor and Company of the Bank of England, he
was to have profecuted this unfortunate woman at
the bar in a raanner from whick her life mutt affured-
ly have been forfeited ; but the had done every thing
in ber power (having gone very far in a career of
Inifeondue) to make difcoveries, which might be of
great benefit to the public ; the bad therefore been in•
• difted for an offence, a conviBion of which would
not have colt her life ; the had pleaded Guilty ; but
in confideration of her. having made all the atone-
ment in her power for her guilt, he had been inftruc-
ted by the humanity of the Governor and Dirednrs
of the Bank, to abßain from calling all evidence
againft her on the other profecution which was to
I have been brought forward.
The RECORDER faid, that the prifoner was indebted
I for her life to the humanity of her profecutors : the
Learned Counfel for the profecution declining to
produce any evidence againft her upon the capital
offence with which the Rood charged, the was then
taken the bar

.7ohn Mahon.; was indiaed for the wilful mnrder of
Dem. B. yan, at Mile End, on the sith of Augnft laD,
by giving him divers blows on his breaft, ftomach,
mod fides ; of which he inflantly died.
Jeremiah Harrogan Paid, the prifoner fells law-
dull in Blue Anchor Yard, in Rofemary Lane. I
knew Dennis Bryan :he was a labouring man. He
and the prifoner went to fight in Stepney Fields on
a Sunday morning. They fought with their fibs.—
Bryan had got the left blow : he got it on his right
fide: it was a bad blow. He was unable to fight
after that blow :—becaufe he could not walk, they
fent for a coach. He lived about an hour after the
blow :he died in the coach. They had agreed to
light, Ido not know for what. I was with him in
the coach when he died.
Croft' examined.
He raid, I have heard the deceafed and the paci-
fier were Members of a Smoking Club, and that they
quarrelled there. I was at the fight on the Sunday
morning : it was in Stepney Fields : the deceafed
was on the ground firft.
Mr. Juftice HEATH raid to Mr. Ally, Counfel for
the prifoner, it was not worth while to purfue this
examination any further, until the furgeon's evidence
was given.
Mr. Samuel Cowie, Paid, that he attended with
another furgeon who examined the body : they were
of opinion that the caufe of it was the rupture of a
blood veffel jug above the kidneys.
joisof—lf thedeceafed had endeavoured to throw the prifo-
ner in the ecinilld, might not that have occalioned the rupture of
the blood veffcl ?—A. Yes. nay Lord.
Jorioa—Why, , then, this is not even manilaughter ; beeaufe the
blow does not appear to be the caufe of the death.—A. I cannot
eaadtly fay where the blow was given.
Jusoa—No, we do not expel you to do fo ; but did you fee ,
any external bemire at all ?—A. No, my Lord.
The Learned judge, in his addrefs to the Jury,
pronounced an opinion to this effeft, and the Jury
foUnd the prifoner—Not Guilty.
Henry Prire was inducted under the Coroner's In.
spelt for manflaughter, in having mal-treated Sarah
Price, his wife; while with child, fo as to hare occa-
fioned her death.

The profecution teemed to have been brought from
a laudable defire on the part of the Gentleman en-
untied with the management of the affairs of the
parifh of St. Clement's Danes, where the parties re.
tided, to allay a fpirit of diffatisfation which tome
of the prifonet's neighbours teemed to have enter.
.dined againft him.
Some marks having been obferved on the face and
arm of the deceafed, after her delivery ; the pear,
tes fatisfy the doubts of the neighbours, had, after her
death, appointed a furgeon to examine the body,
o made a report favourable to the innocence of
rifoner. Surmifes injurious to him having bow.
fill come to the ears of the peas officers, a
otter's Inqueft was fummoned, who, on the evi•
dente adduced before them, found a verdi& of man-
flaughter againft the prifoner. To rerrove all fhadow
of doubt, however, the parifh preferred a bill of in-
didment againft the prifoner, at the prefent Seffions,
charging him with the crime of murder, but the bill
was thrown out. 'they now came forward to indid
him under.the verdict of the Coronet's Inqueft.
Mr. PooLEY, for the profocution, admitted that he
had no expectation of fucceeding in the conviaion of
the prifoner; on the contrary, he knew that it could
not be £hewn, if the evidence should be deemed admit-
libleohat the external marks on the perfon of th• de-
ceafed did not proceed from the ufage of the prifoner,
but from other caufes.

Mr. Skillet, furgeon, who attended the deceafed,
Paid he had obfervcd a black mark under her right
eye, and one on her left arm. He was proceeding to
nate the way in which the deceafed had informed
him the had received them, when the Learned Judge
(Heath) Paid, that was not evidence againft the pri
loner, and therefore could not be received for him.
Mr. POOLE)* declared himfelf fatisfied, if competent
to be received, it would fully have juftified the pri-
loner.

The witnefs proceeded to Rate, that he was per-
feely fatisfied that the deceafed had died of an in-
flammation in the cheß, and of convaltions. It was
impoffible, he added, that the external marks could
have occafioned her death.—Verditt, not Guilty.
"lamer Narita was inditted for the wilful murder of
Eugene Mahony, a child of three years old, in Rofe-
mat y.lane, on the Wednefday before Whitfantide laR.
A young woman who was palling at the time,
being about four in the afternoon, Paid, that the faw
feveral empty fugar-calks (landing on the fireet, and
a number of children picking at them. That the
prifoner came from the oppoftte fide out of Crown.
court. She heard him fay to the children, if they
did not go away, he would kill fome of them. About
two minutes afterwards the faw.the prifoner take one
of the catks by the top and bottom, and roll it among
them. It Rruck the child Mahony about the (mall
of the back, arid knocked him to the grounderolling
over him. The witnefs cried out that the child was
killed. The prifoner immediately took it up in his
arms, and delivered it to a perfon who claimed it.
When the witnefs fit, the child it was dead. It had
been wathed, and the only mark of violence upon it,
was a black (pot, of the largenefs of about half a
crown, ost the (mall of its back. From the'crofs.

tram:maim of the *lmes, it 'ropeared that there
were four hogiheads in all, two of which were placed
within, or on the top of the other two.
A boy of the name of Thomas Stone, who ''ad
been playing along with the other children, shoot
the calks, Hated, that the prifoner had with his hat
driven away a Noy whom he law near the exiles when
he wa= g-irg to remove them. From use pulitlon of
the calks, tare boy Maliony was completely hid from
his view. The prifuner had Miffed theupper calk,'
where the child lay concealed, when the Wi wets
called out to him, that there was a child on the other
fide; but, as the Whites emphatically expreffed it,
it was too much for the prifoner then to recover it ;
the cage was already too far puthed over from the
fide on which the prifoner was.
Mr. Jollice La 13t.amc (aid, from the evidence it
appeared that the misfortune was purely accidental.
'rite Jury, without hearing all the evidence as to
charatter which the prifoner had to adduce, declared
themfelves perfettly fatisfied that it was an accident,
and accordingly found the prifuner— of Guiity.
2 lima: Hamer, alias Benjamin Craddock, and Jams
Bryant, alias Birk*, were capitally indifted, under
Lord Ellenborough's Aft, on a charge of gabbing
and wounding John Watkinfon. nn the night of the
sth of May lag, in High H ,horn, with intent to
murder, maim, or do fome violent bodily harm to
the Paid John Watkinfon.
It will be recolletled, that the crime charged in
this indictment occurred during an attempt made by
four per font to rob a waggon. One of the perfons im-
plicated in this charge was executed about three weeks
firce, in confequence of his conviction for being found
at large within this realm before the expiration of his
former ftntence of tranfportation ; and the trial of
thefe prifoners was poltponed from the lag felfions, on
account of the aSfence of a principal witnefs.
It appeared, on the teftimony of a Mr. Parkins,
falefman,of New Compton greet, that he was c• ming
through Holborn, on the night gated, at r t o'clock,
and law a waggon driving along,followed by a man in
a dark coat, who was accoging the waggoner, and
afking him feveral quettions about where he carne•
from, and who was his mailer ?—and having cate-
chifed him for fome time in this way, at length de.
fired him to draw up to a public bottle near Red
Lion•Rreet, and offered to treat him with fome drink.
Mr. Parkins, fufpetting the intention, tapped the
waggoner on the Moulder, and advifcd him to pals
on about his hulloes. Witncfs again law the wag-
gon oppolite to an a-la-mode beef (hop, the corner of
Smart's Buildings, and law the man in the dark coat
knock the waggoner down at the tail of the waggon.
He called the watch, and went to the waggoner's
Alliance. Several watchmen and others came up,
but the man who (truck the waggoner ran off, and
witnefs not having feen his face, could not !wear it
was either of the prifoners.
Thomas Topping, the waggoner, (wore to his
having been knocked down ; but he could not (wear
to either of the prifoners.
Mr. John Cuthel, bookfeller. in Holborn, (wore
that the waggoner, on that night, pointed to a man
in a dark mixture coat, and laid he would fwear that
was the man who knocked him down. Mr. Cuthel
advifed him to charge that man on the watch ; but
he, with another man, immediately run away. Mr.
Watkinfon, who was prefent, immediately purfoed
him. Mr. Cuthel could not (wear pofitively to either
of the ptifoners, but merely to their refemblance to
the men he law.

Mr. Watkinfon Rated, that he had purfued the
two men mentioned by the lad wilneli up Holborn,
and fcized one of them by the collar ; but at this
moment received a dab of fcme fharp inftrument in
his back. He felt the blood gufhing profufely from
the wound, and fell to the ground difabled. He
could not (wear pofilively to either of the prifoners,
but only that they were very like the men he had
teen in Holborn.

Coleman and March, two watchmen, Rated, that
they were called to Rop the man who attacked the
waggoner. Coleman Paid, that in attempting to flop
them, one of them whipt a knife into his belly, and
left him fenfelefs on the ground ; and March (wore
pofitively to the perfon of Bryant, as one of thole
two who had paged him.
Mrs. Mary Atkins, miltrefs of the Windfor Cattle
public houfe, (wore pofitively to the perfon of Crad•
dock, whole face fbe ditlinaly law, by a ftrong light,
as he followed dole at the tail of the waggon, within
two yards of her, a little before the affray bad oc-
curred.

On her crofs-examination the Paid, the reafon the
had not fpoken fo pofitively to Craddock's perfon be.
fore the Magifirate, was, that fhe was In infulted and
confounded at the time, by the prifonet's attorney,
named Harris, that The was obliged to go out, in
order to recoiled herfelf, but that then the was as
pofitive as now.
Sanwell, the Police Officer, who apprehended the
prifoners, Rated, that he took Bryant at the White
Hatt, in Bifhopfgate-fireet, and found upon his perfon
a loaded piltol and a large pocket knife ; and that he
found Craddock at the houfe of a Dr. Taylor, in
Bifhopfgate•Breet,and found upon him a large gimblet
or boring inftrnment, of peculiar conftrudion, and a
large pocket knife.
The evidence for the profecution being doled, both •
prifoners denied the charge ; and Bryant Laid he could
prove an alibi.
In fupport of this plea, feveral witneftes were exit.
mined, and, amonglt them four hackney coachmen,
named Yates, Cox, Filh, mut Goftling, who (wore
they fat in his company at the Crown and Anchor .
public houfe, Moorfields, from ten o'clock to twelve,
on the night of the ssth July, the affray having oc.
curred at half paft eleven that night.
Craddock produced no witnefs.
Mr. Justice HEATH lammed up for the Jury, who
acquitted both prifoners.

The tide, which bore fo many vifitors from town
to the watering placer, begins, rapidly to revert to-
wards the metropolis. For recruiting the expences of
thefe fummer encurfions, it may not be unfeafonable
to hint—the golden tide of the New Lottery Plan,
that will loon be on the flood ; and whole double flow
of wealth may be embraced, at the fenallea IA of
loft ever known in the Lottery annals.
I'uefday, a poor woman in Cow•crofs-flreet, while
engaged about her fire fide, was burnt dreadfully, by
piece of wood, which was burning in the grate, fall.
in on her apron. She was carried to an hofpital,
with very little hopes of recovery. •wp--

MIDDLESEX PSSIO VS, SEPT. ty.•

The Court was nem red t. is day in deciding on
merits of Appeals, principally relating ro appren-
tices and parifh rates, not one of which. was w• rthy
of derail.
A man, fe appearance and coftome of drefs did
not proclaim him ia stia!;gent oircumitances, folicited
the charity of the Couroonde, the following dream
flames :—He flared, that a woman had robbed him
of * rll4i, of galleyafkins, of Florence manta:Owe
(at: ch he produced to the Bench), for which clime
be had charged her at Marlborough Ilreet" Office,
and the was fully committed for trial : he, however,
now was nor in a flotation to prnfecute.her farther,
in confequence of hi. extreme poverty, and therefore
prayed the affiliance of the wot fhipful Bench of Ma
giarateto f ,r that charitable purpofc.
The Court informed him that they could not af.
ford him any alliance, but recommended to him
that he fh old borrow the money of fame friend
Only 35. 6d.) and then he might have a claim for ;
repayment.
The man replied, that he hal not a friend in the I,
world ; he lived by begging ; that his father, who was !
formerly a woolftapler in Dolfetfltire, had left him ,
a property in the funds of upwards of 6001. which he
had fold out, and which a man had robbed him of !
about twelve months fince ; that the man had bees
convicted of the robbery, arid trarfpnrted for life—
but that not a penny of the money had he been able
to cbtain back ; that fubfequently he had fitbfaled by
:irking charity of the benevolent, and to convince the
Court of the troth of his all:olion, he handed up a
petition, to which was fubfcribed a number of the
mofl refpeflable names, for certain fums. Among
the rest he Paid Sir Vicary Gibbs had contributed a
guinea, and many other learned perfons had alto
affi.'ed him. It was a pity, he obferved, that the
wicked Ihould efcape punithment, becaufe he had not
the means to procure jutlice.•
The Court, however, declired interfering any
other way than in giving advice, and the worthy
l‘layia rate who had committed the woman, direeed
Lim to apply to the Clerk I,f the'lndiaments, and tell
him hi. Rory and fee whether he would take his
word of honour t , repay the 3s. 6d. which be might
obtain, in cafe the woman was canvieled.
The man very relOtantly quitted the Court, t b.
fe,v;og it was hard that a felon mull efcape, becaufc
of fits poverty.