Star.
London, England, 1824-12-18 00:00:00

KENT ASSIZES.

MAIDSTONE, DECEMBER Is.
John Ingram, alias 137cwn, alias Turner, and John Sed-
ger, were indicted for burglariously breaking and en-
tering the dwelling-house of Abraham Abrahams, and
stealing, on the 13th of November, at Minster, in the
Isle of Sheppey, watches, plate, and money, exceeding
in amount 2001.
It appeared in evidence, that the prosecutor was a
pawnbroker and silversmith, at Blue Town, in the Isle
of Sheppey, and that, in the course of the night of Sa-
turday, the 13th of November, his house was ente-ed
by force, and property to the above amount taken
from his shop and-pawn-room. On Sunday, in conse-
quence of suspicion of the prisoners, pursuit was made,
and they were both traced to the White Swan public-
house, at Chatham, where they were found drinking in
company. They were immediately apprehended, and
on their persons was found almost the whole of the
property lost by the prosecutor. The prisoner Ingram
said he had come by the things honestly, having pur-
chased ,them of a smuggler.
Several witnesses were called, who traced the pri-
soners In their flight from Sheerness to Chatham, across,
the Medway, and who gave an account of their pro-
gress and conduct down to the moment of their appre-
hension. It was impossible for a case to be more
clearly established.
The prisoner Ingram said, in his defence, that he had
purchased the whole of the property of a man called
Cheshire Charley, for 100 sovereigns, at two o'clock in
the morning after the robbery, at a public-house in
'Chatham, where he had met him by appointment, in
the expectation of purchasing smuggled goods.
The prisoner Sedger said that he bad been merely
employed by Ingram to carry the bundle containing
part of the property, and had received from him a gui-
nea for his trouble.
It appeared that Sedger was a native of Sheerness,
and that Ingram was a stranger to that part of the
country. The man alluded to by Ingram, called Che-
shire Charley, was proved by a witness to be a well-
known persowin Sheerness, and forthcoming, if his evi-
dence could have been of any service to the prisoners.
Several witnesses gave Sedger a good character from
his infancy, and described him as a person of whom
they had heard nothing prejudicial.
lir. Justice BORROUGH summed up the evidence to
the Jury, who immediately found both prisoners Guilty.
The prisoners-being called upon to say whether they
bad anything to urge why sentence of death should not be
passed upon them? Ingram pleaded strongly for mercy,
re:urging that he had purchased the property of Cheshire
Pharley. the other prisoner seemed affected by his
situation, but said nothing.
The prosecutor recommended Sedger to mercy, on
account of his previous character, and also with refer-
ence to the situation of his parents, who were over-
whelmed with grief at his ignominious situation.
The Learned JUDGE, in his address to the prisoners,
said he had reason to suspect that Sedger, from his
local knowledge of the scene of the robbery, had been
in communion with his fellow-prisoner, who was a no-
torious London thief ; but in Consideration of the testi-
monials to his character, and the humane recomtnenda-
tion of the prosecutor, he should not leave him for
execution. With respect to the other prisoner, the law
must take its course. Them was such a load of crime
upon his back, that it was impossible for his Lordship,
consistently with his duty, to interfere on his behalf.
His Lordship thought it necessary to state publicly, as
the reason for this distinction between the prisoners
cases, that Ingram had, at the last Summer Assizes for
Hertfordshire, been admitted as a witness against three
men,' one named Cartwright, and the others named
Marshall, charged with a'burglary in the house of Mr.
Gordon, of Berkhampstead, two of whom had been con-
victed and executed upon his testimony. On that oc-
casion, the prisoner bad confessed himself guilty of no
less than fourteen other felonies, many of which were
capital. It was impossible, under such circumstances,
for him to expect mercy. A man so steeped in crime,
and convicted now upon the clearest evidence, of a
most daring burglary, could not hope to escape un-
punished; he must, therefore, make the best use he
could of the short time left him, to prepare for death ;
and his Lordship conjured him, by hearty repentance,
to render himself not unworthy of the mercy of that
GOD in whose presende he was about shortly to appear.
His Lordship concluded, by passing the sentence of the
law in the usual form.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday, David Cooper was charged with stealing two £lO
Bank of England notes. The prisoner was employed as a carpenter,
at the New Alms Houses, now erecting at Holloway. Mr. Lee,
the foreman of the works, bad an apartment In the building for his
private use, in which he had deposited a trunk, containing the
notes in question, which he missed on the 27th of November.
Suspicion lighted on the prisoner and another workman, and the
former was questioned upon the subject, but be denied all know-
ledge of the transaction. Subsequently it was discovered that he
had passed one of the notes to Mr. Beckley, the landlord of the
Maim= Tavern, in Etackfriars-rosd, and the other at the shop of
Mr. Styles, in Tottenham.court-road.—The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

Linton and Durham, otherwise Prestos, charged with committing
a burglary in the house of Mr. Lane, the extensive tailor and draper,
is Burhngton.street, and also with committing a burglary in the
house of Mr. Frazer, in Norfolk.street, &rand, in company with
Abrahams, the Jew (who now is under sentence of death in New-
, gate for the offence), were yesterday finally examined on the for-
mer charge,—They were fully committed An this charge, but are
remanded for final examination, before Sir RICMASS 14111211/4 on
Monday next, on the charge of robbing Mr. Frazer.