Star.
London, England, 1813-08-26 00:00:00

WARWICK ASSIZES.

Last week came on at these Assizes the trial of
John lienshall, Thomat liadiv, and Thomas Wader,
for coining counterteit three-shilling pieces.
Thomas Lowe, a Constable of Birmingham, and
other Police Officers, on the 28th of May, went to 2
house in Freethan-street, lately occupied byone Beeby,
who was tried at last Assizes for coining. He heard
distinctly the sound tf a large press at work ; it was
about one o'clock in the afternoon. The house fron-
ted Freeman-street, but there is ari entrance into it

from an adjoining yard: By this yard the Constable
and the Officers got into the house and secured the
prisoners. In the room where they were at work
were two furnaces, exceedingly hot, sufficiently so
for the fuilon of metal. Witness turned to Hadley,
and said, you may as well tell us where the dies
are :" he said they were in the stove. They imme-
diately pulled the stove down, and sag, two dies taken
out : they had been ground on a stone, so as to pre-
vent the full impression appearing. One of the pri-
soners said, 46 you are rather too late ; you should
have been sooner." He said, there is nothing in
the other stove ;" but on examining it, they found
metal in a fusible state. In the same roonrwas
found a grinding-stone. In the bottom room there
was also a stove. The prisoner, Whitaker, threw
some blanks or pieces of copper into it.
William Taylor went with the list witness to
Whitaker's house ; he got over a wall to it, by means
of a scaling-ladder, and heard, as he was getting
over; the noise of a press going ; he also heard a bell
ring, and afterwards the noise of doors opening and
shutting. There was a door out of the shop into
Whitaker's yard; witness forced the lower door ; it
was fastened with two large iron bolts in the inside,
and cased with sheet iron ; the windows were defen-
dad by remarkably strong iron bars. In the lower

shop he found- Whitalcer is a well belonging to a
large presS ; he was stooping and gathering up some
pieces of metal, and then thre* them into a reJ•hot
tOrnace. Prisoner said, " you should have been here
quarter of an hour ago; you ale too late." "raylor
then tried to forte his wty through a trap-door into
the sevnid room, but could not, until he sptang a
plank in the floor. In this room there was another
trap-door, which he could not force: lie then sprang
upon the outside to another winsioteb-lotiging to the
top room, looked in and saw Halley and Leather ;
one of them was working at a grind-.tune. At that
moment his feet slipped and be fell, bat amidst bold
by his hands. Witness presently 'Nuke the frau Ines
of the window with a strong inithinslat. and got lasts
the room ; he sorsa opened the trop-door, and let in
Payn, the constable, and two others. The taros sets
fastened in the inside by strong iron bars let lino the
wall. Some metal was produced, which 'he witness
found in a lower shop, in a furnace.
Thomas Dale, a police officer, endeavoured to get
through the hole that the last witness had meJa: in
the cielii.g, but did not succeed. Henshall forced
him down by a ladder, which, he believes, was this
same they made use of to get from one shop to ano-
ther through the trap-doors. He took from the fur-
nace, in the lower room, d steel collar, which is used
;u the makitig of money.
Joseph Leather, (an accomplice, adniitted King's
evidence), had been acquainted with the prisoner.
Henshall, a long time ; he worked with him sit weeks
before the 28th of May. _ The other prisoners fre-
quently came to Henshall's. Witness was at hit
house. by three o'clock in the morning of the '2Bth.
He was to mind the furnaces, while they struck the
three-shilling pieces. Henshall told lum the furnaces
were to melt three-shilling pieces, if any thing
was the matter. Prisoner Hadley came soon aft-r.
At half-past three they began to work, at making
three-shilling pieces. Henshall put them in the dies,
and Whitaker and Hadley struck them. The dies
were cold silvered when they were ptit into the press.
They had been silvered the day before. Henshall
And Hadley silvered sometimes, and sometimes wit.
ness. Whitaker took them away when they were
finished; they were wrapped up in two papers, brown
and white, in ten dozens and twenty dozens. They
were taken away etery three or four hours, as they
were made. Witness heard them say, they were -to .
be charged seven shillings a dozed. He first saw the
constable on the wall, and called out to the'spriioners.o.
that the trap: were coming ; one of them took nearly
a handkerchief full up stairs, and put them in a fur-
nace under the ~indow. Henshall ran up s!airs
after him with the dies. Hadley told witness to tura
the grinding-stone as hard as he could ; he did so,
and Hadley ground off the impression, Und then
threw therii into the hot furnae.

Mr. Glover, from the Bank of England, produced
a genuine token, He believed those produced in
Court to have been made with a design to resemble
such genuine Bank tokens.
The prisoners declined saying any thing in their
defence.

The Jury found them all Guilty.—Sentence trans-
portation lot low teen yearb.