Star.
London, England, 1807-12-03 00:00:00

OLD B ifLEr.

Yeflerday the Seffi.ms commenced at the Old Bui-
ley before the Lord Mayor, Mr. Justice Grofe, Ba-
ron Graham, the Recorder, &c. when nine ()droners
were tried, four of whom were capitally convicted,
viz --

M. 705 y, for Healing in the dwelling hence of W.
Smith, in WArwick.lane, Newgate flreet, a till valde
is. and a bag c Intaining lix 7s. pieces, and il. 12s.
his propel ty.

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Anne Byrne, for uttering two hal (billings, the
having betore been convitted of a fintilar offence.—
The prifoner went to a butcher's Ihop in Ratcliffe
Highway, and palled two bad (billings, which were
not fufpefted until after the was gone She returned
in the vrtirle of the following week, and offered
two other bad (billings, when her perf,n was iden-
tifitd, and on !earthing her, other bad (billings were
found.

John Almon. for having forged the vriil cf John
Abraham Priddie, with intent to defraud the laid
John Abraham Priddit, he being at pr&nt living;
and in another count lie was charged with having
committed the raid fhrgety with intent to defraud the
Governer and Company of the Bank of England.
There were two other counts, varying from the for-
mer only fo as to meet the technical dittindtions of
t!.te law.

Mr. BOSANQTEr opened the pleadings; Mr. GAR.
Row hated the cafe ; and Mr. FIELD and Mr. KNAPP
examined the witnefres on behalf of the Gnvernnr
and Cc•mpany of the Bank, urder whole dirtetion
the prnfeention was inftituted.
Mr. Robert Harrifon;Cletk in the Prerogative Of
fice, produced the will in quftlion, and delivered it
int.) the hands of the cl:rk, by whom it teas alter.
wards read.

Mr. Thomas Howell, a prattles clerk, depofed,
that he knew the prifoner about 22 or 23 year. ago,
when he was clerk to Melfrs. Crippony and Green
He lad teen him write or engrofs almock every day
for upwards of a twelvemonth. He recolleeted the
prifoner having applied for a probate to the will of a
Mrs. Cornellys. On the ttth of lafl June he made
application to obtain a probate to the will of John
Abraham Priddie. The witnefs obferved, that he be-
lieved the will was entirely in the hand writing of the
prifoner, and that, if it was, there was very little
alteration in his hand ftnce the time of lii• knowing
him before. The prifoner ackn.wledged that it wa,
his hand writing. The witnefs then alked him when
the Tellator died ; to which he replied, that the per-
fon had diet the day before ; that he had met with
an accident and broke his leg, that a nr)itification
enfued, which occalinned his death. The witnas
then went through the neceffary forms, he Iwoie
that the Tellat.,r was dead, and fecondly, that he
would duly adminilter as fole executor. The wiinefb
made cut the jitrat by the direCtion of the p7ilmer,
and law him filo it. The probate was delivered to
him on the 12th or 3;11.
. . . .

John Al,rabans Priddie (wore, that he is a lamp
lighter, living in Marlborough row, Carnaby Mar ket.
He knew the prifoner upwards of 16 years ; he was
an Infpeetnr of Lamps in St. james's Parilit. He
was zbfent from his fituation upwards of two years.
About half a year ago he law the prif tee 11.0 after
hi- abfence ; he lodged twice in cite prillmer's hook,
and then removed to Smith's Cr t, Crea: Windmill-
Ilreet. The prifoner fhortly after that came appa-
rently in a friendly manner, and drank tea with the
witnefs and his family. In the source of the evening
he advifed the witnefs not to t7o to the city to receive
his dividend until the next half year ; as he obrerved
that between the Chi lamas b',.es which the witnefs
expdled, and she accumulation of his dividends, he
mi!:t then he able to purchafe a quarter of a hun•
died more .lock. The witnels repiied it was no con•
ferpitnce to him when he went into the city. In three
nt four days alter that (that was on a Thurfday in
On,iber) he went to the Bank to receive his dividend,
when he was told that the only Abraham Priddie
that was on the Bank books was dead, and his flock
difpofcd of. Upon the will being read by the Clerk
of the Court, it appeared that in the beginning it
Hated 4, I Abraham Priddie, of the hamlet of Ham.
merfmith." It went on bequeathing the loin of Sol.
to Mary his wile, 501. to Sarah Lewi4, his filter in
law, 501 to Benjamin Cornellys, his father in law ;
and concluded with appointing John Almon, his
brother in 14w, foie executor and refidnary legatee,
after the payment of his juts debts, funeral expellees,
and the aforefaid legacies. Upon hearing the will
read, and lor•king at it, the witnefs fwore he did not
know how to read or write, and he had never made
his mark in his life, but when he went to the city
alacut his flock. He had not a tiller in law of the
name of Sarah Lewis, nor a father in law of the
name of Benjamin Cornellys, neither was the prifo-
ner, nor any perlon of the fame name, his brotha in
law.
Mary, the wife of the former witnefs, fluted that,
fume time in the month of June laft the Prifoner
came to her houfe, and afked her in a familiar man•
ner what Bock her hufband had—fife, fuppoling him
to be a friend, laid 3001. Sir. He then afked her
what it was in, fhe Paid in the ¢ per cents. Upon
this he queflioned her as to whole name it was en
tered in—whether the hulband's or her own, or both
together.; the woman anfwered, " in his own, to be
fare.'' She theta related to the Court what palled

when they had a friendly cup of tel together, as (he
ex;.,reried it, in nearly the fame manner as her lin thand
had before (fated. She added, that •ffiet,•recolleded
that, in the month of June, when the
,prifoner paid
fomething, about 16s. or IBs. that he owed them, he
pulled a great cp.antity of money out of his pocket ;
fhe could not fay how much.
Mr. John (tore, of Dean flreet, South Andley.
ftreet, Stock broker, proved the transfer of 3001.. 4
per cents. from the name of Abraham Priddie, to
that of the p• if •ner, at his reeved, on the t 6th of
Jane. He f•IJ out for him on the I7th, at the rate
of 8t: per cent. and paid him the (urn ef 2431. 15s.
with the exception of the ufual allowance tar bro•
kerage. He faw the prifoner flgti his name in the
transfer hook, as foie executor of Abraham Priddie.
Mr. Charles Norris, chief clerk in the 4 per rent.
Regifler Office, depofed, that he carefully examined
the books, and was potitive there was not any other
Abraham Priddie, but the one on the hooks.
The prifoner, in his defence, merely denied his
guilt, and expreffed his hope, that if he Ihmild be
I conviEted, before judgment (honk( he pronounced
again him, that a point would he referved for con,
fideratinn, namely, that the probate of the Will was
not adduced in evidence agaitill him.
Mr. Jul-ries GKOSI, however, obi-erect!, that the
only quellion which the Jury had to decide was, whe-
ther the prifoner forged the Will or not ? Far his
own part, he never faw a clearer cafe proved in a
Coot tof Jolliet!. If the Jury, however, c old fee
any teafoaahle ground of donbt, they thoirld give
the Pri:ner the benefit r fir, and acquit him.
• • The jot y 'mired round in the box, and found the
fltitoner Giti:ty—Death.
The prifoner is a tall decent looking man, aged 45,
and heard the decifiln of his fate without the flighted
emotion, but left the dock, nodding famdiarly to
fume of his acquaintance, who were prehent at the
trial. He was in pPffttlion of a regular income, to
the ammint of ;sof. a year.
Nichael Brady was capitally indinel. for ha vinz,
with an accomplice named Humptri s (finee abfce,nd-
ed) on the night of Saturday, the 24th of 051ober,
harglarioufly entered the dwelling houfe of Et:her
Kinfey, No 29, Southampton row, Bloomfunry, and
felonioufly taking thereout two feather beds, with
holflers and pillows, three cnttnterpattes, and other
articles, above the value of soh

A man named Bainbridge was indi6ted at the fame
time, for felonioully receiving the fame goods, know.
ing them to be flolen.

The evidence in this cafe was entirely circumftan
tial, but given in a clear chain of conneeion, and,
Gem its tenor, it proved that Mrs. Kinfey, who
keeps two furnithed houfe:, which the occafionally
let, to Gentlemen'= fanriiiett coming to town, the
one in Cecil ltreet, Strand, and the other in South-
ampton row, and (lecps in either herfeif, when not
ft let. She had been for fome time fleeping in the
latter bottle, as it was tint let, and at five o'clock in
the evening of the 24th of ()either, the was coming
to her hottfe in Cecil tired, but previoufly bolted
her hall Aoor on the infide, fattened her windows,
and came cut by the door of the area, which the
carefully locked after her, and fo up the area Reps
into the greet. She left the above articles, amongft
other propel ty, fele in the honk.
About half pall feven o'clock the received a letter
at her bottle in Cecil Ilreet, from one of her neigh-
hours in Southampton row, acquainting her that
fame of her property had been taken out of her hook
by two men, and that there was a suspicion that the
had been robbed. She immediately went with the mef-
tenger, and a Mr. Simmons, front whom the had
taken the honk and pnrchafed the furniture, and
found the ball door lying open, and, on examining
the bottle, miffed thole articles of property.
Mr. Simmons, who Lad been p.tfling accidentally
by the hook, ahlut feven o'clock, law the hall door
jolt opened, and two men come out with large bun-
dler', like bedding, tied up in white pact-ages, upon
the;: heads, which concealed their faces front his view.
0,-,e ✓:'as a tall man, ar.d the other rather fit Tier.
He ft:Feted them to pals Lim, and then walked after
them down towards Holborn. The thorter man threw
down his bundle in the :tar kelt part of Orange-greet,
Red Lint square. The latter walked onward, and
Mr. Simmons followed him, hut the man turned to-
ward.; KingfgAre Ilreet, and Mr. S. 101 l fight nf him.
He than returned towards the (hurter man, but he
too had dilippearecl.
A hackney coachman,"named Matthews, Rated,
that lie perfectly well remembered his having been
called by two men, a taller and a f\orter, the taller
much about the prifoner's fize, on the night above
Rated They put two bundles into his coach, which
neatly filled ir. He law them bring thok goods out
of Mr. Fielv's honk. The thorter man got up on
the coach box with him, and defired him to drive
quick towards Carnaby Market. He underfirrod
they were Fitly's goods, carrying away to avoid sei-
zure far rent, and therefore made more balk than
he otherwise would. He drove to a houfe in Broad-
flreet, Cat naby Market, when the man who fat on
the box with him jumped off, and knocked at the
door. The (hap was (hut, and it was too dark at
the tittle to fee the name of the owner. The goods
-were taken in there, and he was paid his fare, and
difcharged.
Mrs. Kinfey was again called, to fußain the charge
againft Bainbridge, and timed, that, in confeqnence
of the information the had received from the hackney
coachman, she went, on the Wednefday after the
robbery, to Bainbridge's houfe, In Broad greet, ac-
companied by Patrick, the Marlborough greet offi-
cer, with a warrant to (catch for her goods. They
were accompanied through the houfe by Mrs. Bain-
bridge, and in a room on the attic llorey the found
a feather bed (he believed to be her own, but the
binding was different, and the fuppofed it to have
been changed. She however would not be pofitive,
until the made fome inquiry of Mr. Simmons, the
perfoo who had made the bed, and the promifed to
bring him the next day. She brought him accor-
dingly, but the bed was gone from the place, and the
could find no account of it. She did not fee Mr.
Bainbridge either time.
Brady being called on for his defence, proteßed
his innocence. He produced a good character for
honefly by leveralperfons, but could give no account
of the beds.

Bainbridge denied any knowledge whatever of the
bufinefi, and produced a molt excellent chatafter
from feveral retpeetable perf .ns.
Baron Glean M then fummed up the evidence with

the greateft accuracy :for The Jury, • who after half
an horn retirement, returned their verliCi as fol-
lows :—Brady Guiltyr—. Death—and •Bainbridge, Not
Guilty.
W. Ryland was convieed offelonf, in picking the
pocket of James Schofield, a foldier, ola letter cate,
containing 81. in Bank notes, which he had jun re-
ceived as prize mr.ney, and was paffing down the
Minorie, in his way to the Tower, where he was our •
duty.

And four were acquitted, among whom was
Knight, who was capiallt indided for Ilealing a •
mare, the property ut Morgan. The mare was
It•ilen from a paddock at lledmin!rer, in Sorrerfet-
(hire, on the t9th of October, and on the tad, it was
found in the pollAlion of hlr..tgewman, a horfe dealer
in London, to whom the prifoner hadfild the animal
for 61. The prifoncr bad once that he bought the
animal at Weyhill fair. and at another time that he
had bought it on the Ue;b:itige road, but he had fold
the animal publicly ; and the whole of his tranfac.
Lions had been pobhc. With there favourable air.
cumltances, arid the prifoncr having received an -
cellent char after from a multiplicity of witnefTcs, he
was acquitted—and

A yriun,z man in she employ of Mcifrs. Turner
and Co, Islancheller Warehoulemen, in King itieet,
who was indicted for itealinct a halt gnicea and a 7i.
piece. Money bad been liccriently itolen from au
iron elicit in the counting lin*, ar.cl confecoently a
quantity of gold was marked to de at The thief. The
marked money, a, Ilat,? I in the in(liCtment, was
traced to the prifoner, burthe t,iJerce as rn the Ae-
tnal marking not hting tatilaiory to the jury, the
pr:foner was acquitted.