Star.
London, England, 1823-12-11 00:00:00

the night of the fight ;.wanted blood, arislfig 1. .1
external violence; 4ms the tame-of his death ;he
myth injured about the-Midi 2sjaitald bet:caw
he recifived admiral wooed ht
Several ether witnesses wisoTvW7fight girsedlibi.
lar testlampay as tn. the eisateat. -
ilia tot-Wahl, who travintorfering at-tho fight sialkis
that Mortis said be bald cut his..i. head offs there
were so many thlevii there, he dared ism interfere;
Fawcett pointed his stick at 'witness, and told him to
leave the ring, and used a thine of sioleoce; he was
afraid to go for (miser assistance.
The mother of the deemed deposed that she wee to
Fawcett in the owning, to guest him to prevent tint
fight—he said he should do no such thing; if he did it
would come another time—he (George), should 414 the
damned young rascal: he would back him for a sous•
reign, and sifter it was over would find * man to do his
work if necessary. iWitness went again, and told him
she thought his boy did not wish to fight-I.lre then said
to herb Go along, you damned old b—h," and witness
left him—deceased was Ist years of age.
By Mr. ADOLPHUS.-.-DOtS not 'know of any quarrel
between her husband and Fawcett—bad never said she
would transport Fawcett and no one else—only said she
darned Fawcett more than any other person.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The RECORDER called on the prisoners for their defence,
George said he had nothing to say, and Fawcett left'
his vase with his Counsel.
John Hill, of Nova Scotia gardens, HaAcnee;road,.
and several other witnesses, gave George an excellent
character for humanity and good conduct from hie
•childhoodto the time of live fatal affray.
Several witnesses spectres:l for the other prisoner,
some of whom were present at the fight, and stated that
Fawcett was not active at the bade. They underwent
a most rigid cross-elimination by the Iteeorsoen..-An
Offiser in the Prussian service, a witness, 'said that Few
cett was quite passive, and leading a little boy up and
down outside tlsiting.--By a Juryman—He was ' • 'do
the ring once, but then his boy was with bins '4,1 :,
said he would not fight for a leg of Mutton ...,
evela
people to eat, but be had. no 'objection to irt• • .
vereign, and then it would be in the N
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Itscoanza..—You see the mischievous efilictift : , '
publications. .
The Recoatoth stated to the Jury the distinction •
tween murderand manslaughter, observing that he di • ,
not think the capital charge could be suAaiped, as it'
did not appear that there was m4lice aforethougist,which
Was necessary to constitute this high offence. He was
about to recapitulate the evidence, when Mr. Kidwell,
'the Foreman- of the Jury, informed him that their
minds were completely made up, and that it was un-
necessary for him to go through the testimony ?which
had been adduced.
They then returned a verdict of G.tr4W against both
the prisoners, but earnestly recommended Gnosis to
mercy, from the consideration that he acted under this
itiftuence of his master .(the prisoner), a man nearly 45
years of age, George being only 18.
Juuostatir.—The Recoanan then pronounced judg-
ment in the following terms :—Prlioner George, so
clear has been the evidence against you, that, the Jury
me fully convinced of your guilt without b*viag the
evidence repeated. There is one thing, however, which
weighs in your favour; your previous good conduct;
and, as an effect of the religious education it is said you•
received, you have expressed your unfeigned contrition
for the great offence of which you have been convicted.
The Court, while it will not let you off without tome
punishment, a ill nevertheless listen to the recommenda-t
.tion of the Jury. The sentence of the Court 14 that
you be confined for six weeks in the Haase of Cerrec-
don, and there kept to hard LtbO6l:O•4Oll,PAWCAtts have
also been found guilty. If you had not been divested
1' of all feelings of humanity—bad you not been careless
Los to the observance of the laws of your country and
!those of Goo, as well as man, he young Man. Ghoul,
would not havelleen thus early deprived of his life, but
might have been carrying on his busioess--he might
have been an ornament to society, lived honoured, and
died lammed ; but, owing to your savage disposition,
these expectations are for ever done away. It was your
duty to teach your servant to observe the lows of his
country, and not commit breaches of them, and stioso-
late others to fight, because they may figure away in the
newspapers .ftiatoter, by a s CCM Act of Parliament
the Court has power SO extend the punishment to four-
teen years' transportation ; but, as it is of a recent date,.
l the Court will not in this instance exercise its discretion
Ise the utosott of its power; but L wish it to be known,
that whenever there shall be a recurrence 0(06 offence.
the full penalty of the law will assuredly he awarded
The %enteric* upon you is, that you be imprisoned
for two years in the House of Correction, and there

kept to hard labour.
the prisoner wished to protest his innocence, after be
had heard the sentence. when
The Covar told him that he was only imputing. per-
ry to all the witnesses for the prosecution, and ordered
bhp to he taken. swap
The Ilscuaora coroptimented the parish for institot-
g the prosecution, and earnestly eibortcd the officers
tolook after Martin and the other persons sot in custody.
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FALSE-1* IpENCI3 DETECTED.O4-
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Two unfortunate fellows, named Henry Borelon ea
John E 1.0.• r, who were convicted at the Septeroter'OM
Bailey ..!.ions of a highway robbery upon a labeti
named %Mans Thorn, have been, by theetettions
Mr. Sheriff Laurie, taken oat of the hancliof the ex :
ee
timer. Ever since the conviction of thete two men th l
iswasast interest has been elicited is the parish of blunt
bs.bbone, where the robbery was sworn to have bN*
committed ; for their characters Formed the
tz;Marked contrast to the circumstances tof the e
with which they were charged and Mb* insportantweir
e was brought before chat,
of State
sequence of the exertions of Mr. Sheriff Laurie.
Thorn had positively sworn, the on the sighted'
18th of September, as he was walking along the
waregoad, with 18s. 6d. or 14s. ;nisi, peck**.
o'clock, the prisoners passed him twice near
Poles public-house' and then with a desperate
knocked him down; that one of them knelt
chest and held his hands down ; that Ora ,
money out of his pockets, and then proposed ,
pinion to take him by the heels and threw hitt
Cut, to prertut him BIM telling ales.", r
Which the other would not agree, although
rgly io put an end to the business it, that 1
who swore, that if the least Mese Or
Were ;made, the prosecutor should bd NW;
mot ping, at an early hour, he (Thero went ;
his assailants, whose faces he ha& dm 17 sew

lamp, as well as of the moon, and obseffrev
:inking in the hg's Arms pdblic•honse; is the
Arareteoed, and thafhe informed -the watchniaa
Oat night and in the morning of thtlebbery. •
e watchman swore that the prOseetitor only in:
totaled himethe rabbitry in the morning attire o'clock;
that there was dry blood an,hie face, and that his
clothes Wittecputtted with-blond from topto bottom ; that
ppm being charged with the robbery in the house, they
laid.nothlng ;but in their way to the watch-house, they
declared that theT were innoctet. This witness heard
its sibs on the night of the alleged -robbery, although
histent was near the -Hop Piles public-house; but the
'prosecutor told him the robbers -had put their hands
open his mouth.

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tour men who had been drinking with the prisoners
at the Devonshire Arms public...house" swore that they
did not quit that house until within a quarter or ten
minutes to 12 o'clock, and that that,house was distant
from the Hop Poles public-house three-quarters of a mile:
Thorn was then called back, and he said he had not
mentioned the robbery to any one on the night it hap-
pened, for he Will glad to get out of the way, and that
the robbery took place as neatly as he Maid recollects
at twenty minutes past 11 o'clock
The inhabitants ofthe parish in which the 4obbery
was said to have been committed, struck with the nature
of the evidence upon- which the two men were con-
victed, and the improbability that a highway robbery
could have been committed at ao early an hour Of the
night, in so public a thotoughfaret without causing the
slightest disturbance,inade a representation of their sus-
picions in the properq,narter; but Mr. Sheriff Laurie
*rid Sir-Richard . 'had already "gaged in the in-'
vestigation, and the whole of the. past week has been
passed in examining Oritnesses, and taking the depo-
sitions of respectablapersons, whose testimony contra.
diets in eirery material circumstance the evidence of the
prosecutor. Eight depositions were taken by the Sheriff
'to the Secretary 'of State Tor the Home Department.
A plumber, by whom the prosecutor said he had
been paid the night before same of the money..of
which he had been robbed, swore that he had not paid!
any money to him, 'and that he had not seen him4fm!
three days. -
The landlord of the Swan public-house, Park.street,l
deposed that he had-known the prosecutor for some
time; that the prosecutor was at his house. on the day
of the 13th of September, all the afternoon, till seven'
o'clock, and bad no money, and said be.did not
.kliow'
wheretortoget any; and wanted to borrow Lid. Irons,
Gbis servants, which they, knowing his character, would!
loot lend him.
A woman owned Atm Kies swore that she saw the
prosecutor on Sunday, the 14th of September, and
asked him how be hart his face, and ire said he had,
been sleeping among some straw in the Cut-yard, and,
hat the boatmen belonging to the Paddington Canal
4 knocked him down, ill treated, and robbed him.

The landlord of the King's Arms public-house, where
the prisoners were apprehended, deposed, that the pro-:
secntor could not have seen them from the street, as he
swore he had, drinking in his house, the room in which
they sat having no communication with the front at all;
that the prosecutor's statement was in that respect false ;
that the prosecutor's assertion that he was not in the
house before the prisoner!, was also, false; for he had
had a half pint of beer there before they entered.
A man named Fowler deposed,that he had conversed
with Thorn on Saturday the 4th of October, at Croy-
don, and was assured by him that he had sworn away
lives of the prisoners, and was sorry foe it, for
now he came to. recollect, they were not the persons
erbo robbed him ; but as it was done, it could not be
undone, and that the prosecutor hadtcdri ban not to say
that he bad seen him, nor to mention his same.
The other depositions in favour of the case of the
prisoners, stated that the prosecutor had been in 'Tothill.
Gelds prison, concerning the taking of a gold watch
but of a Gentleman's carriage; that be took a psis
breeches and a pair of shoes from apiacewherelie was
peirnitted to sleep; that he was known to steal other
articles worth 10s. 6.1. and sell them for sixpence; and,
that his name was found on the Mailborough.strest
books, for stealing three brass cocks; and also that he
was living on his deogbter's prostitution.
Those important depositions were not produced us
the trial, in consequence of the soddenness with which I
it had been brought forward, there being calf one day
fOr the preparation of their defence.
Bardon had been recommended to mercy by the.
Jury, in come:peace of his interference: to sage the life,
of the prosecutor. After the additional. evidence had
been given, the Recomder etpressed himself not satisfied;
of the innocence of the convicts, as they bad not ac-
counted far their time, but we understand his. Lordship
declared that be didoot -believe the prosecutor had been,
robbed, although he believed he had been attacked.
He declined giving his sanction to the application fin a
pardon on the pound of entire innoornee. Under these
circumstances, -Mr. Sheriff Laurie put the depositions
into the hands of Sifffeeleashi House, and asked
liiietitirt if the:primers bad bad teas to' produce this
strong chain of additional' evidence open their trial,
ey would net in all probability have been acquitted?„
The answer vras.in the affirmative, anff the Sheriff then
signed that they were now, therefore, entitled to stand
in the situation of innocent men,;as, had they not been
hurried in their defence, they would hate brought for-
ward thoie persons 'whose statements were so much in
their favour. He also urged the strong arguments that
the prosecutor had . actually absconded, and was
nowhere to be found ; that be was a lazy, dranketyloose
tharatter ; that the • public situation of the place se:
lected for the robbery, the quietness with which it. was
said to have been effected, and the threat to throw the
prosecutor into the Cot, were irreconcileable with chef
whole account given by that person.
Yesterday, alive pardon from bit Majesty emu sent
down to the primmsorise were immethately'libirated.