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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Aram 21.

k 'DOI OX DEXIII OP GIINDALL V. /TWIT OXIXDALL.
The trial of this action of ejectment was returned at the sitting
of the Court.

Mr. BROUGHAM called a number of witnesses to prove the tea.
tator was of unsound mind at the time he made his will, and also
that he was under the influence of Captain Stunt. The principal
witnesses were a Mr. Ogle, who was in the habit of seeing Mr. Grin.
dell frequently until 11329. He described him to be quite imbecile,
and incapable of managing his affairs.
John Stone (Tindall, brother of the Plaintiff, and nephew of
the testator, was examined, and that witness represented the state
of his uncle to be one of great imbecility. He described him as
being unable to write receipts for rent without his dictation, letter
for letter.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL in reply said that Captain Stun
had acted In the most honourable manner ; all he had done had been
fair and open. 3ledical men had been sent for to ascertain the
soundness of the testator's mind, and professional men to make his
will. To all the persons employed prior to the execution of the will
Capt. Start was a stranger, and not ens of those persons derived the
least interest under the will, so that the whole transaction must be
above suspicion.
Lord T zzzzz DIN at six o'clock began to sum up the evidence.
His Lordship said the plaintiff claimed possession of premises as
the heir at law of the late Mr. Grindall. It was admitted that he
was the heir at law, therefore he was entitled to the property unless
the testator had left it to the defendant by his will bearing
data the 30th of January, 1830. There was no doubt the tea.
tator did execute a will leaving his property to the defendant, and
the question in this ease- was—whether the instrument was the
voluntary act of Thomas H. Orindall P If it was his voluntary
act, and, clearly his own will, the plaintiff could not recover
in this action. His Lordship then stated the facts of the case,
and commented on the evidence, observing that no person on whose
judgment they could rely had spoken of the testator as incompe.
tent to manage his affairs. They had letters in his hand-writing,
and proof that he did conduct his affairs with shrewdness. If the
Jury were of opinion the testator was competent to make his will,
there could be no doubt, provided it was his voluntary act, that
Capt. Start (who had taken the name of Grindall) was entitled to
the property.
The Jury, without allowing his Lordship to go into all the de-
tails of evidence, found a verdict almost instanter for the defendant,
thereby establishing the validity of the will.
The trial occupied the whole of two days.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-APRIL 21.

OLD COURT.
Before Mr. Ando, PARK.

Wm. Bernadier, a weaver, 19 years of age, was capitally in.
diced for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Benjamin
Stripling, in the parish of Bethnal-green, and stealing therefrom
a coat and other articles of wearing apparel, valued at three
shillings.
for
Stripling, and her daughter, a child of ten years old, des
that Bansadier had induced the mother to leave her lodgings
the purpose of learning from his father where provisions were
distributing to the poor ; during her absence he broke in her does
and took the property.
Mr. Justice PARK, in addressing the Jury, took OCC2IIOII to is.
mark, that until the passing of a late Act of Mr. Peel's this charge,
from the low value of the property, would not have been capital.—
Now, however, the offence of breaking 'into a house, by day or
night, and stealing therefrom property, however trifling the value
might be, was a capital offence.
'The prisoner was found Guilty.
The Jun= observed it was a case of an aggravated description.
Thanes Carton, aged 19, a young man of respectable appearance,
was capitally indicted for stealing two ounces and • half of grain
gold, valur 121. 10s. the property of Mr. Wohlmann.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a jeweller
in Clerkenweil, that the prisoner, on the sth of March, went into
his shop, and asked for two dwts. of pure gold ; whilst this was
being got ready, he snatched up the gold named in the indictment,
and ran away. Acy of " stop thief " was raised, and the pri.
soner was secured. .

A host of most respectable witnesses gave the prisoner an excel-
lent character for honesty and general good conduct from the time
of his infancy to the moment he committed the robbery. They all
said they were quite at a loss to conceive what inducement the pri-
soner had to commit such a theft.

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Mr. Justice PARK summed up, and the Jury immediately re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK inquired if the prisoner's father was in Court,
and on being answered in the affirmative, his Lordship directed him
to be shown into the back room, at the same time observing that
there must be some mystery in this case which had not been un-
ravelled. His Lordship shortly afterwards left the Court, and bad
a conversation with Mr. Gaston; and on his return he ordered the
Judgment on the prisoner to be respited.
The prisoner's hither is a very respectable tradesman in the city.
Geo►ge Tullassore was capitally indicted for stealing a pony, the
property of Mr. IRalkes.

The prisoner had been in the employ of the prosecutor at West
Ham. On the morning of Good Friday the pony was missed from
Mr. Raikes's field. About two o'clock on that morning the pri-
soner was going up Whitechapel with the pony, and inquired of a
policeman where Mr. Daniels lived, as be wanted him to kill the
pony. The policeman said it is a pity to kill it; there is no doubt
you may get some one to buy it. replied, " No, that will
not do ; twined by my =sus to have it killed, or else 1 must
take it back again." The policeman not being satisfied with this
account, took him into custody, and on the Mowing day the pony
was owned by the prosecutor.
The prisoner (an elderly man,) made a long rambling defence, in
which be stated that be had been instructed to take the pony to
iirhiteehapel, by a man that be met on the road.
Mr. Justice Gassuez summed up. Verdict—Guilty—Death.
NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Common Sergeant Dur YAW and a Middlesex Jury.)
1 lamas Ilockwell, aged thirty-nine years, was found guilty of
stealing M. 16s. on the 12th of March, 1829, the property of Wil-
liam Dawson, his master.
Brosmir.—Philip Hutchinson, aged 64 years, a Custom-hones
officer, was indicted for having, on the 14th of Dec. 1829, felonious.
ly married Grace Rush, at the Church of St. Leonard, Mon:ditch,
his wife Anne being then living.
Mr. ADOLPH vs and Mr. C. PHILLIPS attended on behalf of the
prisoner.
No person appearing to substantiate the charge, the Jury under
the directions of Mr. Common Sergeant Durmast, returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.
Henry Bull, aged 20 years, was found Geritty of stealing, on the
12th of March last, a silk handkerchief, value Cps. the property of
Benjamin Crampton, from his person.
The COURT sentenced him to be unmated for life.
ii.liecrbeth Goodall, aged 25 years, waslndicted for stealing on the'
21st of March, three sovereigns and a half from the per of Sa-
muel Stewart.

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The prosecutor stated that he was an excise officer. While pro.
ceeding along Higb.street, Shadwell. about one o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 21st of March last, he met the prisoner, who very much
pressed him to accompany her home. He, however, refused to do
so, and dished her to go about her business, when on a sudden he
discovered the prisoner's hand in his waistcoat pocket; and on her
taking it out he missed the money mentioned In the indictment.—
The prisoner was apprehended in about ten minutes afterwards.—
; Be was quite sober at the time, having only taken one glass of gin
and water during the evening.
A police constable proved taking the prisoner into custody, by the
desire of Mr. Stewart; there was no property found upon her; the
prosecutor was not quite sober.
Mr. Serjeant Mazur recapitulated the evidence, and
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Peter Stubbs, an engineer, aged 85 years, was found Guilty of
stealing on the 2d of April, 13 dozen of finger plates and 55 locks,
value 91. the property of Thomas Frith.
The Couar sentenced him to be transported for life.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' CO UR T, April 21.
William Crawley, a lieutenant on half-pay, of the 18th infantry,
was by a creditor named Aycock, for a debt of 191. con-1
tracked for grocery, itc. His half-pay amounted to 801. per annum;
but he opposed the appropriation of any part of that sum towards
the payment of his debts, because he was under moral obligations to
a lady he was living with.
The Commissioners said he was under moral obligations to his
creditors, and ordered 101. a-year to be set aside for du payment of
his debts.