Star.
London, England, 1822-03-11 00:00:00

HERTFORD, MARCH 9.-CROWN SIDE.

The business on this side finished on Saturday
morning about eleven o'clock. Five capital convicts
received sentence of death, viz. James Wilkes, Sc;,,.
Phipps, James Taylor, forburglary; Benjamin Parker,
fer highway robbery ; and James Pointon, for horse-
stealing. Of these, none were left for execution. The
only remarkable case was that of
Samuel Phipps, a bargeman, who was indicted for
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Thomas Poole, in the parish of Sawbridge-
worth, and stealing therefrom a silver pint mug and
two silver salt-tellers. The prisoner bad been in-
dicted with another man, named Johu Fordham, but
as to the latter the Grand Jury ignored the bill.
It appeared from the evidence, that in the night-
time the prosecutor was disturbed in his sleep, by the
noise of some persons apparently pulling down his
house. He got up, looked out of his window, and
saw three Main the act of pulling down the boarded
gable of his dwelling. He demanded what they
wanted ? One of them replied that they wanted
money. He told them that they should have money,
if they desisted from pulling down his house. Re-
turning to the window, he threw out a pocket-book,
containing three £1 notes, having previously taken
the precaution of abstracting from it a £lO note.
—The man picked up the book, examined it, and
said that would not do ; he must have the 1:10 which
he said he knew he had : and before the prosecutor
could comply with his wishes, he was assailed with a
shower of large stones, which broke the windows, and
most probably would have brokeohis, own head, if
he had not retired in time. The prosecutor begged
the villains to desist, and then threw out the £lO note.
In the meantime the other men effected a breach in
the house, and then the three entered, seized the pro-
secutor, and secured him in his daughter's bed-room,
whilst they ransacked the house. They found a boz
under the daughter's bed, from which they took some
articles of plate, and then decamped. The case to af-
' feet the prisoner on trial depended upon a variety of
minute circumstances. It was proved, that on the
following day be went,to London by a coach, and re-
deemed some clothes from pawn, tendering a £lO
Bank of England note, receiving the change from the
pawnbroker, and then returned to the country. This
note was identified by the prosecutor and the. pawn.

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was &raged firetrdsandl it erne hits the bands o
the presselutoe, and **awards until it was adduce
in evidence against the prisoner. •
• The prisoner had•glven contradictoi7 accounts o
the attar in which the said settee:se into his pos-
sonieat int, that be found it ; then, that he bad re-
Coked it from a Mend, tic.—The case went to the
Jury, who found the prisoner Gaily—Death.
CIVIL lIIDEr-lIIIILLIERAND O. KNOLL/So _
This case, which was an action for a trespass assil
assault, came en to be tried in the Town Han of
Hertford, on Friday. last, before Mr. Baran GRANAU
and a Special Jury The Court was crowded to excess.
Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS (who was specially re-
tained) stated, at considerable length, the case. The
plaintiff in this action was a respectable farmer, re•
siding near St. Alban's, where be farmed a consider-
able property. The defendant was a Gentleman re-
siding at Uxbridge, in which place he filled a very
considerable station: he was- a person living in a
handsome style, and possessed of a large income.—
The Jury must recollect how very unfavourable the
last season was to the harvest, and consequently, how
late it was collected. About St. Alban's it was parti-
cularly injured, and the Gentlemen residing in the
neighbourhood came to a resolution, that they would
neither sport themselves, nor suffer any stranger to
sport, until the 14th of September. This compact was
very universally entered into, and it was, at least by
the parties making it, as universally respected. On
the 3d of that month, however, when the plaintiff
was busy in his fields, he was surprised by the ap-
pearance of the defendant and two other sportsmen,
with guns and dogs, in the pursuit of game. He
thought it his duty.to apprise them of the compact of
the County Gentlemen, and pointed out to Mr. Budd,
one of the defendant's companions, a field of French
wheat, in which the crop was still standing, into
which he particularly prohibited them from going.—
Mr. Budd pledged himself that they would not, and
he afterwards communicated both the prohibition
and the promise to Mr. Knollys, the defendant. The
Learned Counsel proceeded to state, that the plaintiff
having left the field and gone home, the defendant
took advantage of his absence to break his promise,
and that the plaintiff having returned to the ground
and attempted to seize the defendant's gun, the latter
struck him with it repeatedly on the arms and legs,
and finally knocked him down.
It appeared in evidence that this was a very yin-,
lent assault, and that the plaintiff was a respectable
man, and a Minister of the Gospel, being a preacher
belonging to the sect called Independents.
Mr. AINAPHUS, on the part of the defendant, re•
plied, but called no witnesses.
The JUDGE summed up the evidence, in the course
of which he complimented the Counsel on both sides,
on the eloquence and ability which they had displayed
for their respective clients.
The Jury retired, and in about half an hour they
returned into Court, when the Foreman addressed
the Judge—" My Lord, lam desired by the Jury to
say, that the reason we do not give heavier damages
than we do is, because the plaintiff was so indiscreet
as to seize the defendant's gun, when he had no right
to do so. We find for the plaintiff—Damages £2OO
and costs."—The trial occupied the whole of the day.