Star.
London, England, 1814-01-19 00:00:00

OLD BAILEr.

Yesterday James Harrison and Jame: Claver: vce.t..e
indicted on suspicion of having stolen three planks of
mahogany, and ten bed pillars, value five pounds,
the property of William Dawes, on the 23d of'No-
vernba..

The facts which were collected from the testimony
of several witnesses were these :—Mr. Dawes, a tim-

ber-merchant, luiving missed the articles mentioned
in the indictment, gave information at Hatton Gar-
den, and stated that he suspected the prisoners, who
were paitners in the business of bedstead making.—
The pi isoners• had two shops, one at Seward-street,.
Brick-lane, .and another at Back-hill, and were in very
embarrassed circumstances. At these places part of
the wood was found, which was positively sworn by
one of the witnesses to have been a plank cut from a
log in the prosecutor's possession. " The rest was
found at a mahogany turner's, to whom it had been
given to turn and sell by the prisoner Harrison.
The prisoners alledged, in their defence, that they
did not know in what manner the wood had come
into their premises, and that they did not know it to
have been stolen.
Several witnesses gave them good characters.
The Jury found them both Guilty.
J. Adana was indicted for stealing sixty yards of
dowlas, the property of J. Graham,' on the 21:th of
December. The prosecutor is a linen-draper in
Prince's-street ; and on the day mentioned in the in-
dictment, he saw a man walking away with the dow-
Lis on his shoulder, which had been standing on a
chair outside the door, when he pursued and secured
J. Noyes was indicted for embezzling a sum of
money, the property of J. Hall, his employer, who is
a potatne-seller in Spitalfields-nurket. -He went on
the 2a4t of December to M. HAI, of Fleet-market,
and asked for £2. 2s. in the name of his master,
which he never accounted for.

In his defence he said, that he had a wife and three
small children, and he left it to the mercy of the
Court.—Guilty.
Peotsnan was indicted for stealing four coach-
glasses, the property of General Mditland.
E. Briant, a gentleman's set vant, said, the prisoner
brought the lasses to him, and asked him if he knew
who w,:uid buy them ? Witness asked how he came
by them ? To which the answer was, he had found
them. Witness took them to a frame-maker in
Drury-lane, and sold them-to him for £2. 4s. The
frame-maker sent him to a rublic-house wh le he got
change ; but, instead of that, he got two officers, and
had the witness taken into cussody, who then took
tbeni to the Queen's Head, in Holles-street, Caven-
dish squ4re, where the prisoner was waiting for him.
The frame-maker deposed, that each of the glasses
were w, rth .R 2.— Guilty. •
In conswvence of the coachman's saying that he
could not swear to the lace and frames produced, or
. that they were like those of General Maitland's car-
riage, the RECORDER said, he suspected he had a
hand in the transaction—that he was either a great
knitre or a great fool.

SURREY Sessions..—An instance occurred here on
Monday, of almost unexampled depravity : a brute in
human shape, of the name of John MiNamara, war
charged
with an assault upoothe person of a female
child, between seven and eight years of age. It ap-
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pearud"that the father of the child and the prisoner
.were Irishmen, lodging, in the same house. In the
absence of the child's father the prisoner committed
the offence charged, with circumstances of most
shocking aggravation. The simple and consistent
manner in which the child told her melancholy tale,
as well as the rest of the evidence, left no doubt in
thy mind of the Court, and of the indignant hearers,
as to the fullness of the prisoner,'s guilt. The
Chairman, Mr. KesiticK, in passing of the sentence,
dwelt in the severest terms on the enormity of his
crime, and sentenced him to twelve months imprison-
ment, and during that time to stand twice in the pil-
lory—a sentence which was received with universal
approbation; and. it only remained a Matter of re-
gret that this Monster was not capitally charged, in
which case, no doubt, he would have expiated his
crime with his life. -
ROBBERY AT THRrOST OFFlCE.—Yesterday
111.od, a letter-carrier, belonging to the General Post-
otfiCe) was brought to the Public Office, Bow-strcet,
charged, with feloniously secreting a letter which
passed through his hands at the General Post Office,
and stealing the contents, amounting to £l2O. It
appeared that on the 21st day of November Mr. Wil-
liam Lansley, of Andover, by his servar.t, put a letter
into the post, containing notes and bills to the atbnunt
of £l2O, directed to Mr. William Wheatley, of
Gough-square, Fleet-street, London, which did not
arrive in due tithe or since. A description of the-
notes and bills being given, they have been traced
through several bankers, whose clerks attended yes.
terday to identify the notes. One of them, which
was contained in the letter, was paid by the prisoner
to Mr. Anstey, an attorney: Mr. PAIIKIN, jun. the
'son of the Solicitor to the Post Office, attended to con.
duct the prosccution, on behalf of that establishment.
the prisoner declined saying any thing in his de-
fence, but left it to Mr. fiaathqa, his Solicitor, who
attended for him. Tile prisoner was fully committed
'for trial. ,
MiisTsitiOus Fine, &c.—At the close 'of the main'.
•tion *of Mr, Shaman, his wife was placed by his
side, and informed what Mr. Deane had said respect.
ing the-female at the drawers, and that the impres-
sion upon his mind was, when he called upon her on
I:frursday, that she was tile person he had seen at
drawers. She was humanely cautioned by Sir N.

CONANT, that she need not answer that or any other
question put to her, except she was advised so to do
by her counsel. However, she readily answered that
it was impossible, as she was at her sister's in Broad-
Court, the whole of the time from half-past twelve
till ball-past nine at night, when she returned home.
She had not even gone down stairs at her sister's.—
Mr. ADOLPIIUS. her Counsel, approved of the answer
she had given, so much being implied in the word
impossible. None of the witnesses could state when
or•how the prisoners entered the house, only that
abo:tt half-past nine o'clock most of them saw them
in the passagis; but it was not known who let them
On a day or two after the 6re, when Mr. Den-
the Secretary 'to the Globe Offict; tailed at the
:, Mary WI ight, the servant, answered the ring

of the bell, and Mr. Sturman, in the presence of Mr.
Denham, desired her to fetch the turpentine. She
not having seen any since she had been in the house,
her master told her it was in the back pantry. She
went to the place, as directed, and found a stone
bottle, which would hold about three quarts. She was
positive it had not been there before the Ire, as she
was in the daily habit of going to that pay. There
was also a stone bottle with oil in the satue4slace.—.
They were both produced at the examination, as were
the different articles which had'" been slipped in tur-
pentine. She stated That the avoid which was distri-
buted in the parlour and passa to, assist the fife,
was in the house previous to the, fire, and was kept
in a closet on the staircase. Just as the examination
was about to close, she was called in, and asked if
she had any objection to say where she was during
the time she was out. She replied; certainly not ;
and, withaut the least hesitation, said she was the
whole of the time at a friend's in a court in the
Strand, which was perfectly satisfactory. Mr. ADOL-
PHUS stated, that he was prepared to prove that the
prisoners let their first-floor for six guineas a week.
This was to shew the goodness of the furniture.--
The matter is involved in much difficulty and per-
plexity ; and the only defence is, that thieves got into
the house : but it could not be conjectured how, as
there were no marks of violence perceptible ; and
that the prisoners,should perpetrate the fact was ex-
tremely problematical, £l5OO being insured on the
house, out of £3OOO, and, if the furniture cost £1 1.00
er £l5OO, as Mrs. Sturman stated it did, the insu-
rance-money was complete. Mr. and Mrs. Sturman
both conducted themselves with the same firmness
and coolness as they did on Saturday evening.

On Monday last the cold was so intense, that the
thermometer, exposed in a northeastern aspect, stood
at 13 degrees, which is 19 below the freeaing point :
on tLe eastern coast it stood as low as 9 and 10; a
degree of cold very unusual in this country.
A poor man, usually carrying sieves about the
country, was discovered a short distance from Guild.
ford, on Sunday se'nnight, nearly frozen to death,
and on being taken to a house in the' neighbourhood,
he shortly after expired.
On the evening of Monday se'nnight, two persons
(a young man and woman) were found dead, through
the inclemency of the weather, on the Manchester
and Buxton road, within one mile from the latter
place.
On Friday se'nnight, on his return from Wakefield
market, Mr. Husband, of Hodroyd Hall, was found
frozen to death, within little more than a hundred
yards of the house of his nephew, with whom he re-
sided.

The following melancholy accident happened on
the road near Reigate, on Friday last.—Young Monk,
the driver of one of Mr. Allen's stage coaches, hay.
ing mistaken a lump of frozen matter (scrapings of
the road) for snow, in a yarrow pass, suffered his
coach to run oirer it, by which he was exposed to a
sudden and unexpected jolt that threw him from, the
box, and falling under the carriage, the fore-wheel
passed over his head, and the hind-wheel 'over his
neck, and unhappily killed him on the spot. The
deceased was a sober, steady young man, and son of
Mr. Monk, who has been long Anotin as a coach-
master and driver on the Chichester-road.

A melancholy catastrophe took place in the.road
' leading out of the North road, some distance from
Royston to Bellington Abbey. A Mr. Yately, a far-
mer, and his two sons, were travelling in a chaise cart,
about nine in the evening of Friday last, when they
got off the road on some drifted snow, ten or twelve
feet in depth, and the vehicle was precipitated into a
stone pit, thirty feet deep. The horse was killed by
the fall, but the three. persons were got out alive at
nine o'clock the next morning, but the youngest son,
a fine youth, fourteen years of age, died soon after.
Mr. Yately and his other son, were nearly frozen to
death, but they are now in a fair way of recovery.
The pit was completely filled with light drifted snow.
ExETEK, JAN. 1 s.—The fall of snow in this neigh-
bourhood, s;nce Monday evening, is greater than has
' been remembered for forty years. The inconve-
nience and stagnation of business it has occasioned
are distressing, as no persons venture out but those
whom necessity convels. The roads in all directions
are many feet deep with snow, so that travelling is
partially suspended : the mail and other coaches have
been generally impeded, and for two days the Lon-
don mail was brought from Dorchester in a chaise
with four horses, and did not arrive till 13 hours alter
'the usual time. The roads west of this city have been
totally impassable for carriages, and the bags contain-
ing the mails have been Conveyed on horses. Several
'accidents have occurred, some of which were fatal ;
on Wednesday a soldier was fognd dead on Haldon,
with s£2l-in his pocket; and yesterday three of the
Renfrew Militia were dug out near the same spot, and
their bodies conveyed to Chudleigh.

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