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Magnus K,rner alias John Brown, was indided
for a capital offence, in burglarioufly entering,
about the hour of twelve in the night, of the isith
of June, the dwelling hook. of Robert beehy, Efq.
and (leafing therein, fix filver table-fpoons, five
tea-fpoons, one deffert fpnon, a fugar-tongs, pep-
per box, and various other articles of plate, his
property.
• It appeared that the Prifoner had lived as fer-
vant with the Profecutor, Mr. Beehy, about five
or fix weeks before the robbery took place. 'The
articles laid in the indidment were proved to have
been duly depofited in the Butler's pantry the
evening of the tqth, and on the following morning
they were miffed. No evidence was adduced with
refped to the fad of the burglary. By means of,
advertifing and the circulation of hand-bills, the
Profecutor difcosered that a great part of the
property in queflion had been pledged at the dif-
ferent pawnbrokers ; iwo of thefe were brought
forward ; the firft (hied, that on the zoth of June
the prifoner brought a number of fdver fpoons to
pledge at his (hop ; he called himfelf John Brown,
and Paid they were his property ; the fecond (fated,
that fome things were pawned with him, he be-
lieved by the Prifoncr, but could not politively
(wear as to his identity. The articles which were
produced were fworn to by the Profecutor.
In his defence the Prifoner, who was a foreigner,
afferted his innocence of the charge, and denied
that he was the perfon who had pawned the plate,
and appealed to the Profecutor for the goodnefs of
his charader.

Mr. Beeby raid, he received a very good charac-
ter with the Prifoner, but that living only three'
weeks in his fervice, he could afcertain but little of
his charaCter by his own perfonal experience.
Mr. Baron Hor HA M in the courfe of his charge
to the Jury, oblervcd that the cafe againft the Pri-
loner, excepting the charge of burglary, was a
very fhort, and he feared, a very clear one. He
then briefly fummed up the evidence, and the Jury
found the Prifoner guilty of healing to the amount
of 41. Iss. (the fum at wh►ch the articles were va-
lued) in the dwelling-houfe.—Deafh.
Nine were convieted of felony, viz.
?der Born, for haling a 11. bank note, the pro-
perty of John Spicer Fifher.
Ana Gill, for healing eight fhawls, the property
of John George.
Richard Lenard, for healing a memorandum
book, the property of James Angier.
William Adams, for healing a tub of butter, the
property of Francis Inman. •
Thomas Sadler, for healing an umbrella, the pro-
perty of George Morris.
yaws Agin, for robbing the wafh•hnufe of T.
Wigington, in Rofe-tercet, St. Luke's, upon the
aßtir of July laft, of bed ticking, and other bed-
furniture.

The profecutor dated, that upon the 28th of
July he went to bed "about eleven o'clock. His
oufe was properly fecured when he went up (lairs.
That he was alarmed about four in the morning
by one of his lod4ers calling him up; that he then
went down to the flreet-door, where he found a
watchman with two bundles, which contained his
property; that this property was bed furniture, and
bad been put into a tub of water, in order to be
wafhcd, and that it had been left in his wath-houfe,
which is conne&ed with his own dwelling by a
door, but there is no yard. The window of a
feather-room above the waft-home had been open-
ed, and the articles he fupPofed carried of through
that aperture.
The watchman fwnre that he obferved a fufpi•
cious-looking perfon under the gateway of the
George-yard, about four in the morning; that he
defired him to go about his bulinefs, which he
feemingly did; the witnefs then looked tip the
yard, and law the prifoner on the top of a wall.
When the prifoner found ha was difcovered, he
threw the bundles backward, and jumped down,
when the witnefs caught him, but after a flrtiggle
he got off; the prifoner and the perfon then re-
turned, and pelted the witnefs with brick-bats, tiles,
and (ones. He bad no doUbt of the prifoner's
identity, as he had known him before.
The prifoner denied the chargc, but called no
witneffes. The Jury found the prifoner guilty of
dealing.
Natbanid IRA for burglarioufly breaking and en-
tering the dwelling houfe of a Salefrottn, about
the hour of ten o'clock at night, with intent to
deal, and dealing a coat.
It appeared that the Profecutor went out of his
.houfe to go to a neighbour's, about ten at night ;
but he was not lure that he (hut the door after
Lim. When he returned, which was almoft in-
dandy, the Prifoner had a coat rolled up under his
trm, coming towards the door. He was bilked
shat he meant to do with the coat? He dropped
it, and ran away : was taken and committed.
Mr. J allice Ls BLAWC told the Jury, that the
Kence, as limed in the Indi&ment, was a capital
fiance- • Ilreak:tig and entering the dwelling-tubule
in the r:lit, hut they might difmifs the capital
part Gf the charge •, the Profecutor could not fwear
that tile door was f tftened when he went out, and
therefore it could hot be taken that the door was
Lill, and if it w.t. not, :acre was no breaking.—
Rut as to the thLft, the jury would :orlider he-
thet di: P: had aiiF put p,fe in siew but to
(teal tl e coat. If he I:.oved it from the place
sybete it was,witli intent to ta'Ke it ~way by llealth,
i. was as mid, a theft as if he bad aflually run
away w.th i 7. . .

Guilty t•f healing the goods, hilt not cf breaking
and enteritis. the dycellit•g-liouf‘.
frr privltcly fkaling a d:Arrinn..l
tr. cdet, at:Li 10711 C OCaler the of
Gotidwir, i t his flap.
Ir. PLofs who has tlic c its of the fliop of Mr.
Goodwin, in li•ilborti, Lliat cm the id. t-. 1
A1:gull Let, 1I:C PI linnlr, min
ablc ap,year..cce, e.:rne to
Jc•+k at a goLibriadi. ;1l cl Ihr. cd it him;
• another pcirwn c ..r re diked ti LL: f.•tnc
Alv.r knives; tic l't,Axtr Lid he teas I:0; in

and that he might ferve that Gentleman firs. The
Witnefs turned round and (hewed that perfon fume
knives, but none of them would fait him, and he
went out again. The Prifoner then holding the
gold•trinket in his hand, Aced the price of it? He
told him half a guinea. The Prifoner offered feven
Millings, and then eight (billings, which the Wit-
nefs refufed. The Pi iioner then made an apology
for the trouble he gave, put the broach down and
went away. The Witners did not fufpca he had
loft any thing, but afterwards, on the fuggetlion
of his wife, looked into the drawer, which he bad
laid before the Prifoner with articles of jewelry in
it, he difcovered that the articles Rated in the in-
dielment had been taken away ; he went out and
went down Holborn, he law the Prifoner and the
perfon who came into the (hop to afkfor the knives
together ; they were joined by a third ; the Wit-
nds croffed the way, and watched them ; the Pri-
foner went into another jeweller's (hop, the Wit•
nefs followed, charged him, fent for a Conflate
and had him fearched, and all the articles ofjew•
dry were found in his pgffelflon.
The Learned Judge Aced the Withers if there
was any body in the lhop but himfelf while the
Prifoner was there? He faid, that bis filler, Mifs
Rofs, was in the lhop all the while the Prifoner
was in it, but the was not now in Court.
Mr. Baron HOTHAM.—" Gentlemen of the
Jury, as to the fa& that this man Role the property,
there can be no doubt of-it, if you believe the evi-
dence ; for it was found almoß immediately in
his poffetlion, and he has not attempted to (hew
how he came by it. But your principal confide-
ration will be to fay, what denomination of offence
you will conviel the Prifoner of? Now, Realing in
a (hop privately to the value of above ss. is a capi-
tal offence. With refpeel to this being private, the
eircumflances arc thefeMr. Rofs, itho was in the
Rpp, ferved the Prifoner, that is, (hewed to him
the articles. He did the fame thing to the other
man who came *in. He did not fee the Prifoner
take thefe goods, and, therefore, as far as Mr.
Rofs's obfervation went, the (eating was private
but he Rates a circumftance which calls for your
confideration, namely, that his Sifter was en the
/hop at the time when this was done, for the was in the
(hop during the whole of the time that the Pri-
loner was there. Now, if fbcinis the Prifoner tab
the goods, then it would not le fleaturg privately, be-
caufe it was difcovered in the (hop. We cannot
take it from the account of Mr. Rofs now, that
his filler did not fee it, for (he herfelf might have
been here to fay fo—the is not here, and therefore
you cannot have fatisfatlory proabefore you, that
Mifs Rofs did not fee the Prifoner take the goods.
If (he did fee him, the offence is not capital, for,
in that cafe, it cannot he laid to have been done
privately. If (he had been here and had fworn,
that the did not fee him, and there was nobody
elfe in the (hop, then the offence would have come
under the denomination of a capital one. I think,
therefore, that that has Caved the Prifoner's life ;
and if you are of that opinion alfo, you will ac-
quit the prifoner of the capital part, and find him
guilty of Ilealing only."
Guilty of fleabag the goods, but not privately
in the Mop.
And fix were acquitted, among whom were •
Ann S,puthgate was charged with a capital offence
in (leafing, on the z3d of July, /even yards of
printed cotton, the goods of Thomas Ball, pri-
vately in his (hop.
The prifoner, it appeared, went to the !hop of
the Profecutor, a linen-draper in the Strand, on
the above day, between twelve and one o'clock ; ,
(he looked at fame articles, and agreed for the pur-
chafe of fome trifling things, for which, however,
(he did not pay, laying, the would wait until her
filler came, whom the thortly expeeled. After
waiting fome time, during which the behaved in
fuch a way as to induce Mr. Ball ftrongly to fut.-
peel her, the wanted to go away, which the Pro-
fecutor refufed to permit. She then begged a cer-
tain man might be fent for, who, the faid, would
be found hard by. The thopman was accordingly
fent for the perfon, and foon after he went out
the Profecutor faid the dropt the piece of printed
cotton from under her clothes. He immediately
knew it, having his private mark upon it. The
lad who was in the Mop while the prifoner was
(crying with the articles was not brought forward
and in confe,nuence of this million, the Learned
Judge told die Jury, the capital part of the charge,
that of privately Realing, muff he put out of their
confideration. However dirk Gentlemen thought
proper to bring in a general Verdia of Not Guilty.
John Price was indiaed for a capital offence in
felonioufly ftealing, on the zzd of June, a mare va-
lued at ipol. a gelding valued at 201. a chaife va-
lued at zol. and two lets of liarnefs valued at 51.
the property of George Chalkey Taylor. Efq.
It appeared that Mr. Taylor had come in the
abovementioned equipage to the houfe of Mr. Ma-
fon, Seedfman, in Fleet-(reef; he alighted, leav-
ing the chaife, as tibial, near the kirb-Bone, and
went into the houfe. He had not been in long
when he was informed that a man had got up into
his chaife and driven away with it; however,
when Ise went out, which was in a few minutes
after, he found that the chaife had bccn brought
back, and the prifoner fecund.
Two of Mr. Mafon's thopmen Rated, they law
the prifoner get up into the chalk, and drive off to-
wards Ficet.market ; one of them ran after, and
flopped him before lie got half way thither. On
being charged with the faa, the prithner faid that
a Gentleman had cleared him to get up into the
curricle and drive before him to Blac iars-bridge,
where he was to wait, and that he thould have a
(,filling. The prifoncr then jumped out of the car-
s Sage and is as walling off, when the thopman flop.
1.,:d him lie wac fecured and brought back, tn-
gcther slit% th. chaife, to Mr. Malon's Louie,
c.bet f.• he se as go cif in charge to an ofliccr.
Thefe faits (nil* clearly proved, the pacifier
was called upon fonsis defence—when lie laid, that
t thug was a great crowd near the place, that the
t.saile was placed I roil-ways, and in the war of a
coach, whi, ti 'se eldcribed molt have materially in•
I itired tl.e ca: tiitse, were not the latter taken away;
Ithe !pot being tfi itielofed by other carriages, the
unchman recic;,,,ll.int tot 414 away the carriage,
s‘n which be got icatcd it, and drove off a

few yards, and yetis about to turnback, when Mr.
Mafon's fhopman came up to him.
The RECORDER in his charge obferved, upon
the nature of the cafe, the jest of which was the
intent with which the prifoner took away the car-
riage, whether to convert it to his own ufe, which,
in a cafe like the prefent, was a capital felony ; or
whether they believed the affair happened as he
had Rated in his defence ; this they were to decide
from A drift review of the evidence. He dwelt
with fome force on the confideration of the dif-
ferent defences he had made, that, in the firft in-
fiance, when he was cleated, and that they had
juft now heard.
The Jury, after conferring finale time, pronounc-
ed the prifoner—Not Guilty.