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Yeller'lay twelve prifoners were tried, one of 1
whom was capitally conviehd, viz.
Witb Roberts for making an affault on the
King's highway, ~n Thoma. Milfon, putting him
in fear, and taking from /tin perfon four Millings
and twenty-four half pence/.
Thomas Milfon swore, that on the tzth of De-
cember Lift, he was coming from South Mims,
about a quarter before Ave in the afternoon, in a
cart on the Turnpike-road.---He was driving the
cart.—The prifoner who was walking on the foot-
path, croired over to him, and when-he had come
up doh to the (haft, told him to flop. He did flop.
The Prifoner bid him deliver his money, at the
fame time prefenting a piftol to his breaft; he was fo
near, that if he had not had the piftol, the Witnel
might have caught hold of him ;- it was growing
but he could fee the man diftinElly enough,
and he had the fame coat on then as now ; the
Witnefi put his haizd into his pocket, and gave
him what silver he had,which was three Millings.
—He laid to the Witnefs that was not enough,
and that unlefe he gave him more, he would fire at
the Witnefs. The Witnefs faid it was of no ufc to
I fire at him, or to ufe him ill, for that he had no
more money, except a few half-pence, which he.
might haVe if he chore ; he then put his hand into
his wailicoat pocket, and gave him a handful of
half-pence; upon which the-Prifoner direaly turned
round, and faid to the poor woman the witnefs had
with him in the cart, that if Me did nut give him
her money, he mould fire at her. The poor woman
faid the had none, that she was a poor beggar
woman, and if he wanted any thing of her, he
moil take her matches. The Prifcner then told the
witnefs to go off, and that was all the witnefs law
of him that time, nor had he ever Men him before.
—The next time the Witnefs law him was on the
16th of December ; be went by the window of the
witnefs's houfc at Barnet. The witnefs followed
him up and down the town for Tome time ; he had
a woman with him, and they went together into
several (hops, upon which the witnefs went to a
neighbour, and got Lim to come to his afliflance.
They law him in a field, they pu•fued him, while
he jumped over many hedges and ditches for about
two miles, but at laft they took him; the witnefs
was pofitive as to the perfon of the Prifoner, and
knew him immediately as he paffed by the window.
William Wright corroborated the evidence of
the Profecutor, as to the taking of the Prifoner in
the fields near Barnet, after he had led them over
hedges and ditches for near two miles
The prifoner, in his defence, denied the charge,
and called
Elizabeth Norris, who faid (he keeps a lodging.
houfe near Watford Turnpike, and declared-that
the prifoner had never been out the whole of the
t ath of December, the day charged in the indiEt-
ment. She underwent a very critical crofs-exami-
nation, and appeared to prevaricate very much :
the contradifted herfclf both as to dates and cir-
cumftances, continually confounding the one with
the other.
The next witneflt he called was Sarah Neale,
whofe teftimony was a complete contradiEtion of
all the evidence of the fall witnefs.

Charlotte Bally was produced next in his behalf;
but her teftimony was not merely a dired contra-
didion of the whole of that delivered by the two
former witneffes' but alfo in itfelf a grofs prevari-
cation from the beginning to the end; infomuch,
that the whole appeared-, and actually was, one
of the moft barefaced and perjured efforts, that
ever appeared in this Court to counterad the due
courfe of juftice. In no two circumftances did
any of them agree as to dates, events, or cireum-
fiances, even the moft trivial, that they pretended
to affert had occurred on the tzth of December,
the day on which the robbery was Rated to have
been committed; notwithftanding they all were
brought forward by the prifoner for the purpofe
of proving an alibi, that being his defence. In one
particular only the following contradictions ap-
peared. The firft witnefs pofitively (wore that
the three witneffes had tea for dinner ; the fccond
as pofitively fwore it was not tea, but potatoes;
and the Taft witnefs that the.dinner was bread and
Jed?.
The evidence on the part of the pifoner being
concluded, Mr. Jufticc LawaE !ice fummed lip the
whole. to the Jury, in a clear and upright manner,
necefarily making.fuch comments as the extraor-
dinary evidence given in fupport of his defence
called impericufly forth, reprehending it in terms
of the fharpeft cenftire and animadverfion.
The Jury inunediately found him Gotilty.
Eight were convicted of felony, viz.
John William for Reeling a wooden lafi, and
other articles, the property of John Melon.
George ibirky and yaw Ewen, for ftealing a
quantity of leather, the property of Edw. Beak.
Rowland Hughes (a foldier) for (leafing a quan-
tity of apparel, the property of a Mr. Duncan.
The Collide' for the proferution (toted, that dur-
ing the late dreadful fire at Wapping, the prifoner
who ought. to be employed in proteding the pro-
perty of Mr. Demean and others during that ca-
lamity, inftead thereof took the opportunity of
plundering it.
Mr. Davis is a grocer, and lives at No. 138,
Wapping. On the 13th of December lag, there
was a fire at Wapping, he faw the prifoner on that
day, between feven and eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, with a trunk on his (boulder, and fufpeding
him, he accofted him, and finding he prevaricated
extremely, he took him and the property into cuf-
tody at the Royal Oak, Wapping. The landlord
of which, a Mr. Bell, fupported the teflimony of
the loft witnefs.

Mr. Duncan, the profecutor, who is a publican
at Wapping, proved the trunk to be his property,
which, with the articles it contained, were iden-
tified by Mr. Duncan's lifter, out of whole room
the trunk had been taken.

The prifoner, in his defence, (rid, that he was
handed the trunk out of Mr. Duncan's houfe, for
the purpofe of (eying it, and being direited to
carry it to the next public-houfe, whither he was
proceeding with it when flopped by Mr. Davis ;
that Davis permitted him to depart ; and that not
'fe.tring any charge aglipit him, he rctursed again,

and wai tl.en taken into cullody. In fhls he seat,
to a certain e-tent, corroborated by Davis and by
Bell. and he called a Scrjeant in the Guards
to his charaaer : that he had been a soldier fovea
years, was in hard fervice on the Continent, and
uniformly concluded Limfelf as a good and a brave
man.

The jury hefitated for tome time, and were
proceeding to retire, that they might be afforded
an opportunity of confiderinir their verciidt, which
the Judge .(Graham) perceiving, he fignified to
them, that it occurred to him juft then, to Rate to
them two points in favour of the prifoner : the firft,
that it uas not in evidence he had taken the trunk
out of the haute, as laid in the indictment, and,
therefore, the charge of felony committed was not
fupported : the other, that if he had not taken the
trunk originally with a felonious intent, yet though
he fhoulof afterwards, when put in poffeffion of it,
conceive a fraud, and then, in tralfift, convert
it to his own ufe ; yet, even that would not amount
to a felony, but be no more at moD than a breach
of trult. And that not being the crime for which
he flood Charged, he merely took occafion to call
their attention more cfpecially to his cafe.
The Jury, however, retired for Tome time, and
returned a verdict.—daiLty of healing to the value
of 395.
Efizaktb Gal, for healing fourteen ounces of Ben-
gal, and thirteen ounces of-China Silk, the pro-
perty of Levy Smith.
The Profecutor, it appeared, is an eminent Silk
ManufaCturer, and the Prifoner was one of thole
employed in a certain part of the manufaCture.—
On a particular day, the bad 3olbs. of filk deliver-
ed to her, but when the returned it, it was found
to much, as above hated, deficient in weight. Her
apartment was fearched, and the quantity miffing
found therein. On which the begged for mercy ;
and acknowledged the had frequently purloined
the article in the fame manner. The Jury, with-
out hefitation, found a verdia to the above effed.
jobs Hanlon and Samuel Baler, for felonioufly
healing, on the 13th of December, two bee-hives,
value 4.5. and twenty pounds of honey, value
the property of John Brockbank.
The Profecutor, it appeared, refides at End-
field : on going down to his houfe, on Saturday,
the 13th inflant, he heard that his garden had
been recently robbed of two bee-hives. On the
Monday he came up to town, with .an intent to
inquire refpeAing the ftolen property, when, upon
applying A the Worfhip-greet Police-office, be
found that the hives, &c. were there, and that two
men, the Prifoners, had been detained on fufpicion
of dealing them. It appeared, that the Prifoners
came carry on Monday the isth, to the flop of one
Solomons, a hatter, in Old-greet, with the hives,
and offered them for fale.—Sufpeeing that they
were diffioneftly acquired, Solomons procured two
Officers, who took them into cuftody. The ac-
count given by Hanfon was, that he received the
hives, that morning, from his father, who lived in
Northamptonfhire. The property was clearly
identified by Mr. Brockbank, as the hives were of
a particular conftruCtion.
In their defence, Hanfon raid, he knew nothing
at all of the property, but had been that forenoon
at Solomons' refpating a hat, which he left there to
be repaired, when that perfon was pleated to fetch
an Officer, and took him into cuhody, on fufpi-
cion of Dealing the honey which Baker had brought
there. Baker afferted, that he knew nothing of the
hives, but alto went to Solomons' about another
hat.

Solomon, was called up, and queflioned about
the rather extraordinary defence of the Prifoners,
when, he faid it was true, Hanlon had, tome time
before, left a hat with him ; but which, he verily
believed, had been Nolen. The reit of their after-
tions were utterly unfounded.
The Jury vet, !portly pronounced both the Pri-
fonert—Grilty.
yaw: Kelly and Elitaleth Keefe were indieted for
a capital offence, in healing on the 6th of Janu-
ary, rs yards of bombazete, value 11. 13s. the
goods of Edward Burtenlhaw, privately in his (hop.
It appeared that the Prifoners were obferved
looking earneftly in at the window of the Profecu-
.tor's thop, a haberdafher and holier, at No. ro6,
in the Minories, about (lx in the evening of the
6th of January; that they went in and teemed to
bargain for a pair of flocking:, while Kelly went
once or twice into the firect in order to point from
cc the window at a particular air. While Mrs. Bur-
tenfhaw was engaged in to ing the ftockings out of
the window, the woman, eefe, was obferved to
take out a large piece of bornbatett which lay
upon the counter, and conceal it about her perfon.
This was feen from without by a patrole, who fur
peeling, watched all the Prifoner's motions. The
Rocking, were faid by them to be too dear, and
loon after they went out. They were both brought
into the flop by the Parrole above alluded to, who
charged the woman with the theft, and on fearch-
ing her the piece was accordingly found.
Melly, in his defence, told a long and cireum-
Randal Rory, the jet of which was, that he was re.
quelled by Keefe, whom he law looking in at the
window, to tell her the price of a pair of flock.
ings which were marked in the window, as fhe
could not read. He did to, and, by her defire,
bargained about them in the (hop, but fhe thought
them too dear. On their going out they were both
hopped. The woman was fearched, as had been
Rated; be protefted folemnly his innocence of the
charge, and utter ignorance of the woman's
perfon and charade?. A number of witneffes
gave him an excellent charaeter. It was held by
the Court that the capital part of the charge was
done away, as the woman had been teen to take
the property. The Jury, under that confideration,
found her ,railty of healing, but not privately, and
were pleated to acquit Kelly.

MURDER.
7.4* nem a farmer of opulence and refpeeta-
bility, who was indieted upon the Coroner's inqueß
for the wilful murder obis wife, Mary Shore, by
dragging her from one chamber to another, and
by forcibly and violently throwing her to and
againft the floor, at his houfe in the parilb of
Hampton, in the county of Middlefes, on the sth
of January.
Mr. Ataas opened the proceedings% Erwporter.

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.140 KNAPE opened the cafe on the part of the
'rtirioetvith dating the regret he felt at having a
*r.ge‘, heinous, a nature to bring forward
againft a man fo far adwaneed in years, who always
lived in repute, and againft tilde character he
did not know that there ever had been before the
flighted imputation. The profccution was very
properly cons! end at the inftance of the officers
of the parith in which the unfortunate woman
came by her death; and if it fbould turn out
that the had been • murdered, the offence would
be highly aggraiated by the confiderasica that it
Was committed by the man who ought naturally
t ) have been her protedor. He thought it but jof-
, Lice to add, that the bill for murder had been
thrown out by the Graid Jury ; and that the Pri-
loner W• 315 then upon trial under the finding of the
Coroner's litquell. He then went into the detail of
the evidence be had to produce, and proceeded to
tall— •
Elizabeth Turner—" I lived as (errant to the
painter in the life-time of his wife for three years.
is houfe tiros at Hanworth. I rem: tuber on the
sth of this prefent January the prifoner left' his
houfe in the morning, and returned in the eve-
Aftering he went out my miftrefs was in the
kitchen preparing for old Chriftmas-day. She had
during the afternoon drank three quarterns of gin.
She.was far from being intoxicated ; the knew what
11* was about. My matter returned home about
Ralf after nine. My *Ores at that time was in
the kitchen. She went up (lairs to her room.—
Her mailer atked a little girl, his grand-daughter,
!here her grand mamma was ? She laid the was
gone up flags. The prifoner laid he fuppofed the
was drunk. He called me and'began to abufe me
very much. He raid, that when-he was at Sun-
bury, at three o'clock, he was informed my mif-
trefs was drunk. I faid the was not drunk at
three o'clock. He went up [lairs. I heard a great
noife like the rurobling of feet. I heard my mif-
tied cry out, I heard-her cry ' 0 Lord I' and tell
the little girl to call Betty (that was myfelf) to
help her. I did not go up (lairs. I was afraid,
as my matter had abufed me fo tnuch before. He
came down for fomething to fatten the door with:
he afked me if I knew where the Raple was which
Thad drawn from the bed-room infide his, where
the ufed to deep by hertelf ? He ufed to fatten her
in this room when the was in liquor. I told him
I could not find it. He looked for a brats (crew,
and raid he would fix me from going in to my
milked. I went out of the houfe, he Phut me
out, banged the door,c and told me I might god to
b—l ; the little girl afterwards let me in. I id
not fee my matter any more till five o'clock the
neat morning ; he came down ftairs,"called me out
of the wath-houfe (where I was), and defired me
to go for Mrs. Holthip, his wife's fitter. He Paid
he had been down dams at one o'clock for tome
drink; I heard him go in and fay " 0 Lord !" fe-
veral times. I went and Aced hint what was the
matter ? He Paid the was no more. He feemed
very full of grief. Mrs. Holthip came in about
half an hour."
Crofi-examined by Mr. FiNIDING.
" I was the perfon who ufed to get the drink
for my millrefs ; the ufed to drink frequently ; I
have Peen her extremely drunk many times, and
upon thole occatiws I fometimes got the liquor :
there was a neighbour to whom the alto had re-
• cootie to procure it. for her. On this day I got
the liquor at feparate times ; the was not drunk,
the got up ffairs without help ; upon my informing
ber withlle warcome home, he was extremely
angry me. When the was drunk he ufed to
put an hafp on the door of her bed-room to keep
her ir., and me from going to her. •He fattened
her into that room, andswent to' his own bed as
dual. He had ungartered his knees, and pre-
pared to 'go to bed,' as was his cuftom, before
he went up (fairs. My miftrefs went up (Lairs in
the drefs the had worn all day. It was not unufual
for them to go out together to market. 'The neigh-
bour who fupplied her fometimes with liquor lived
next. door."
. Mrs. liolthip--" I remember being font for by
the priliner, and going to his bode. I faw him ;-
I laid, " 0 Jolin . what is the matter ?" He told
me to i. 0.) tip (lairs, and he followed me. We
went into the little hack-room; I law my lifter
lying upon the carpet ; the lay as if thmehody had
laid her there, and not as if the had fallen ; the
lay with her head
; I oh a upon her arm, upon her right
fide
kind of bloody froth running
from her mouth, on the tide the lay ; I helped to
undrefs her, and he adifted : I obferved' a good
many bruifes upon all parts of her body, and alfo
on her face ; the had the appearance of thofe on
her face when I parted from her in the afternoon. '
I cannot fay any thing concerning the others, as
I could not fee them when the was dreffed. It
wiped her mouth, rubbed her body, and did every
thing I could to recover her. The prifoner (rented
to be terribly agitated, and quite depreffed with
forrow. He gave every adiflance in his power."
Croft-examina—There appeared to have been a
great difcharge from her domach on the, carpet.
John Jacobs, a neighbour—" I was in the yard
of my bode, and heard Mr. Shore abufing his
maid. I heard Mrs. Shore alk what was the mat-
ter ? I alfo heard a noife up !lairs, as if Come por-
ton had been thrown down by another ; I
after-
wards heard a hammering, as if tome one wen
fattening a door.
William John Griffin, forgets. at Hanwordt—
" I ufed to attend the deeeafed. t was fent fot.
and .went to the houth of Mr. Shore ; he raid I
might go up flairs and fee the corpfe; I went up
and viewed the corpfe • I raw Tome external
marks or bruifes on the thigh, and alto Come (mall
bruifes on the arm. the fide, and on the face ;
they were not bruifes that could have produced re-
riots confequences. I opened the body next day
with Mr. Booth and Mr. Jones. Immediately
upon dividing the external ioteguments of the ab-
domen, I obferved a confiderable effufion ofblood
in the fionlach ; conceiving that to have been the
cattle of her death, I thought proper to find the
fourcc of it. After removing the abdomenal
vifcera, I diffeEled from the heart downwards, and
perceived a rupture of the internal iliac artery.—
Vor my further fatisfaiftion, I opened hex head.
and found the earls very turgid. wad indamed.—

I had been informed of her' difpofition to drink,
but never obferved her particularleia liquor. I '
attributed her death to the rupture of the blood-
veffel, and conceive that rupture to have been pro-
duced by external violence. Suppofing the de-
ceafed to have been thrown down, inch a rupture
might have taken place."
Crofs-examined—" I conceive that the froth
from the mouth was while the was in the ad of
dying. It is not improbable that fueh ficknefs
from the ftomach, and Ws of blood, might have
been produced by fuffocation, in confequence of
the particular &nation of her body. I always have
heard Mr. Shore fpoken of as an indnftrious, fober
man. Such a rupture might have taken place '
from her falling on the ground from the bed ; or
it might have been in confequenet of a ftrtiggle
with the prifoner, to prevent his getting her into
her -bed-room "
Thomas Booth—" I attended at the opening of
the body ; I perceived that the blood had flowed
from a rupture of the internal iliac artery; the
rupture did not arife from any internal canfe, but
either from Tome violent effort of the individual,
or external violence; if it had proceeded from as
internal eanfe; the veffel would have been unfound,
(there was no apparent external violence that could
have occafioned death ; but there was a great
deal of extravaffation on the right fide, which was
iinpolable to have been occafioned only by a.call
from the bed. The iliac artery is placed near the
heart, is defended by a thick coat, and re,quires a
great deal of violence in order to produce a rup-'
ture in it."
Mr. Jones, furgeon, at Hanworth, perfeetly
agreed in every obfervation made by thetwo Taft
witneffes ; he added, that extravaffation often made
its appearance after death ; in tracing the bufinefs
from the external to the internal part of the body,
the ippearances of violence ceafed altogether.
This was all the evidence for the profecution.
Baron Taos' ',amt.-14 Upon this evidence, Gen-
tlemen of the Jury, it is for you to, fay, whether
you are fatisfiod the deceafed came to her death in
confequenee of the Prifoner's throwing her on the
floor? You will obferve, there is no evidence of
any perfon. who faw the prifbner throw his wife
down; the witna only Rates, there was a rumb-
ling kind of a noife in the room, which might
have been occafioned by his forcing her into the
inner bed-room, certainly the properefl place for
a woman in her fituation, `and her exertions in re-
fitting them. You will fay, whether it is necef-
fary to go farther, and call upon the prifoner for
his defence ? It was very right an inquiry thould
take place, and that the caufe of this poor woman's
death &mild be inveftigated. The Coroner's Jury
have aited very properly in fending this to your de.
cifion ; it is to be remarked, that the Grand ju-
ry did not think prop& to returna true bill upon
this evidence, and therefore it is upon the Coroner's
Inqueft alone you are called upon,to decide : you
will fay whether you are fatisfied ? it feems to me
there can be no doubt as to *hat your verdia
ought to be."
The Jury confulted a very !bort time, and re-
turned a verdiet of Not Guilty, yithout calling upon
the prifoner for his defence.
The prifoner is a decent-looking old man, appa-
rently about 65. He feemed very much oppreffed
during the whole of his trial.
The trial of Am. Skban, who was indifted for
murder, was poftponed until the next Seffion, upon
; the Surgeon informing the Court that the is not
at prefent in a condition fit to be brought into
Court.

Sittings appointed in Middlefet and London, be-
fore the Right Honourable LLOYD Lord Kenna.
Lord Chief jußice, &c. in and after Hilary Term,

IN TERM.