Star.
London, England, 1801-09-23 00:00:00

FlTat7.
,

.~----,

~-

'lnt and feveral other labourers were at work ; the
coat lay by the fide of the road : he took it up,
immediately tied it in a handerchief, and was pro-
ceeding away with it. The profecutor lhortly
milled his coat, and inquiring after it, was told by
one of the witneffes, that a man had lately paffcd
by with a blue great coat tied in a handkerchief.
They irdtantly followed, and overtaking the pri-
foner, charged him with die theft. The prifoner
denied it :_howevir the property was taken from
him, and he was fecured.
In his defence, the prifoner faid be found the
coat on the road fide, and not obferving any per-
fon near it, he thought it might have been 101 l
there, and fo took it away. He fupplicated the
lenity of the Court, laying, he had a wife and fix
young children ; on which the COMMON SE R J r ANT
told him he fhould have thought of that before he
committed a felony.
The Jury had little hefitation in finding him
Harry Lazarus, a Jew, was charged with a
capital offence, in (kali ig, on the eoth of Augult,
four handkerchiefs, and one napkin, value ifs. pri-
vately in the fhop of James Cowe and James
Brown, their property.
The profecutors, it appeared, are linen-drapers,
in Orfordlireet ; about eleven in the forenoon of
the above-mentioned day, the prifoner came into'
the fhop—at the moment, no perfon was in it
however, Mr. Cowe's brother foon made his ap-
pearance, and allied the prifoner what he wanted?
He limed much confided, and Aced for fome
ferrit. Being told they had none, he quitted the
(hop. Very fhortly after, the property laid in the
indictment was milled. Mr. Cowe, jun.followed
the ptifoner, and brought him back to the fhop.—
An officer was immediately fent for to fearch him.
Whilouthat was doing, one of the witneffes, a boy,
who was (landing near the fhop door, obferved the
prifoner throw the nakpin upon the door of the
fhop ; and while Mr. Cowc (looped to pick it
up it appeared he laid the handkerchiefs upon the
counter.
Some difficulty appeared in one part of the in-
veffigation, in afcertaiaing to whom, ftrialy (peak-
ing, the property belonged. Mr. Cowe fisted, that
in drat the partnerllup between him and Mr.
Brown had been fome time diffolved. • However,
as it appeared that the firm of Cowe and Brown
Rill &Wilted, and that the articles of partnerfbip
were not yet eau:illy cancelled, the Court held it
fuflicient to bear out the charge in the indictment,
of the goods in queftion being the property of
Cowe and Brown.
The above circumflances appearing clearly in
evidence, the Jury found the prifoner • Guilty, but
thought it proper to do away the capital part of
the charge, by adding, ,s but not privately in the
&etc"
aster rind, far dealing, on the toth of Ju-
ly, two fur hats, value .s. the property of Media.
Borrowdale and Atkinfon.
•The profecutors, it appeared, are hat Manufac-
turers, in Fenchurch-greet; the prifoner worked
for them. About ten o'clock on the above night,
one of the witneffes'Obferved him mending a hat-
box, and on his perceiving that he was watched,
be 'blew his candle out : however, by his motions,
the witnefs was certain that he put fomething in
the box afterwards. They then went out, and
when they got near the gate of the premifes, the
witnefs alluded to took an opportunity, and infill-.
ed upon examining the box ; in cotifequence of
which the difcovery was made. With refpeCt to
the identity, on account of the great fimilarity of
the hats to a great number of others, the witnefs
had no other fpecific reafon to fitppofe they were
the peofccutors' property, than that he bad obferv-
ed them taken off their premifes, which, under the
circtundances of the cafe, the Court held to be a
fufficient identification.
The prifoner put in a long and written defence,
which contained a tedious detail ; the principal
in .
t in which was, that the contents of the hat-
box. quellion were books. The Jury, however,
not believing his affections, found him Gallo.
Nothasiel Afilkr for dealing nine pigs, the pro-
perty of Thomas Saunders.
Mr. Saunders, it appeared, is a miller at Stan-
well, rear Staines. Being a (taker, he would nor
appear to give evidence himself, but the lots of
the pigs was proved by one of his fcrvants. They
were stolen on the night between the r ith and r ath
of June. The chief evidence in fupport of the in-
diement, was that of— Mews, who was an ac-
complice, and had turned King's evidence. He
(wore, that on the evening of the t ith of June, he
had been drinking with the prifoner in a public
boufe in Staines, anti that between nine and ten at
night they walked out together towards Stanwell.
They had not proceeded far when they were joined
by a man of the name of Stiles, (who was con-
vicled of horfedlealing at the lag feffions), and the
Prifoner then declared to him that they were going
to rob Mr. Saunders's pig Ryes. The witnefs re.
fufed to join in fuch an enterprise, but one of them
held a piftol to his bread, and (wore that he muff
either go or be (hot—he went accordingly. After
they had got the pigsfrom the ayerthey drove them
as far as N' ounflow Heath, and there put them into
a cart. The Priloner and he returned, while Stiles
drove on for London.
In confirmation of this account, it appeared that
the pigs were found in a liable at Newington be-
longing to Stiles, and covered with mud, as if they
had been travelling ; that there was an intimacy
between Stiles and the Prifoner; that Mews and
he were Peen together on the evening of the r ith,
and that about two o'clock next morning he was
met in company with a (;ranger, who might very
well be Mews, near Stanwell, by the driver of the
Balifhtiry mail conch.—Gaiky.
Catherine Williams, for flealing a pewter pint
pot, the property of James Probet ; Jofeph Croli,
for dealing a few, the property of James Pearce ;
Mary Sowers, for Healing a gown, and other ar-
ticles, thr prorertv MargaretColey ; Jane Judd
alias Cannon, for .ftealing an apron, and other ar-
Cielec, the pi ()perry 4.lPczer Dorull ;_ Martha Wir-
-1 our, for healing a metal watch, the property of
I;dward King; john Hughes, for ftealing 271 b.
elieSiL of beef, the proper; v of John Suivencr ;
Thomas Glen, fie lic.ihng two Wadi. cannons, the

property of Thomas Coleman ; Mindred Rae, for
Reeling an apron, the property of James Black-
well; Thomas Greenaway, for &alio' a rack of
oats, the property of James Afiett ; Mary Mars,l
tor Ruling a pewter quart pot, the property of
Mac Newton; William Fickens, for dealing ylb.
weight of raw coffee, the property of Rich. Pugh
and another ; John Hollis, for Realing 31b. weight
of raw cotfcc, the property of the fame perfons;
William Blackgrove and Thomas Child, charged
with Ruling a quantity cf oats, the property of a
cornfa&or, at Efrex wharf, in the Strand. Seve-
ral witneffes appeared to the prifoner Child's cha-
raaer. The Jury found Blackgrove guilty, and
acquitted Child.
And ten were acquitted, among whom was
Mary Davis, for (leafing various articles. the
property of Macdonald, a poor woman in
St. Giles's. The profecutor produced the pro-
perty, contifting of a thee, a blanket, and bottler,
and a carpet. Having mitred the article,. the
pe,!ted the prifoner, and found her with the arti-
cles in her polreffion.
The prifoner laid the had been paging the prole-
cutor's houfe, when a perfon came running out at
the door, and threw down the things charged in
the indiftment. The prifoner took them up, and
gave them to the profecutor, who intifted that the
prifoner had Role them. The precentor then
had her taken to the Public-office, from whence
the was fent to Newgate ; the denied the charge
in every point, and the evidence being rather
doubtful, the prifoher was found—Not Guiltj.
A young woman of the town was tried for rob-
bing Bowciin, the Bedford Stage-coachman, of his
watch and money.
The profecutor Rated, that, on the r ith of
June lA, about nine in the evening, be was pro-
ceeding to Vauxhall from the city, in order to pay
a rum of 41. he had been entrulted with by a Gen-
tleman at Bedford, to a merchant of that place.—
He had previoufly depofited, at a banker's, near
80001. of bank-notes, which he bad alfo been
charged with. As he was going down Fith-fireet-
hill, he was accotted by the prifoner, who alked
him for fomething to drink ? He went with her
into a wine cellar, and treated her ; after which
they walked together to Vauxhall, but it was too
late to pay the money, and they went into a public
houfe. A perfon who was fitting there laid, " Ah,
my dear, I know you ;" the replied, " Well, do
you know any harm of me ?" " No," laid the
man, " I do not." The pmfecutor returned to
town with her. and they went into a houfe in Bart.'
lett's-buildings, Holborn, where they drank gin
together till near two in the morning. He then
croired over into Hatton-Garden with her; and
as he was extremely exhautted and fatigued, he
fell afleep at the door of a houfe. She was then
by his fide. When he awoke, he mitred her, and
alto his watch and money. As the had told him
the lived in Tooley-areet, be thought in her way
home, the might have celled at Dark-houfe-lane,
Which was the only place where houfes were open
at that time of night he went there, but did not
And her. Recolleding the perfon who laid he
knew her at the publichoufe at Vauxhall, he ap-
plied to him, and, through his information, chi-
covered and apprehended her. She conferred the
robbery, and ffirefted him to a woman who bad
fold the watch for her. Upon applying to the
woman, the told him the had received it from the
prifoner, and had fold it for 18s. to a publican.—
The watch was produced, but neither the woman
who had fold it, or the man who had bought it,
were brought forward.
The Learned Judge obferved, that the account
given by fuch an idle, look fellow as the profecu-
tor, Who had been drinking with a protlitute from
nine at night till two in the morning, deferved no
credit, unlefs corroborated by other witnerres.
.

The Jury accordingly, under his Lordthip's di-
reftion, acquitted the prifoner.
Forty-ode prifoners were difcharged by Procla-
mation.

The foUowing among other priConers were ac-
quitted on Monday :
Bryan Carol! alias John Downey, for felonioufly
ftealing ox the tsth of Auguft, 1681bs. weight of
foap, value sl. ss. the goods of James and John
Now•land.

It appeared that the ptifoner came .to the lltop
of the profecutors, who are extenfive dealers in
foap, on the above-mentioned day, and prefented
a Note, purporting to be an order from Mr. Ca-
roll, with whom the profecutors had dealings, to
let the bearer have a cwt. and a half of foap on his
account. From the prifoner's manner, as well as
from fomethin; which Mr. Nowland obferved in tile
note,his fufpictons with refpeet to the fairnefs of the
tranfaetion were ftrongly excited. While the (pap
was getting ready, he ilepped to Mr.Caroll'shoufe,
which was in the neighbourhood, in order to be
fatisfied. He there learned that Mr. Caroll was
out of town. When he returned the prifoner had
gone out of the chop with the foap, but he was
foon overtaken. The profecutor acknowledged
that he certainly would not have let the bearer
have the foap, were it not for the general impretrion
upon his mind, at the moment, that it was for
Mr. Caroll.

The Common SEsjeatir obferved, that a pofi-
tive AR of Parliament Rood in the sw-ty of the pri-
toner's canviaion upon the prefent Indiftment,
namely, that of the 3oth of the King, which pro-
vided for cafes of obtaining money or goods under
talfe pretences, by making the offence a mifde-
meanour, and for its punifhment accordingly.—
The circumfiances of the cafe in quetlion, placed
it under the purview of this all, but which, if it
did not exit, would clearly have been a felony.—
He obferved, upon the condu& and the acknow-
ledgement of the pruf•cutor, which made for that
concitifion, and as the Law flood, the prifoner mull
neceffarily be acquitted. The Jury accordingly
found him Not Guilty.
The Protecting-, on his inquiring relative to the
point, was informed by the Court, that the Law
WAS (till open with refpeß to the punilhment of die
prifoner, and that in a fubfequent Scion be was
indiEtable for the offence as a mifdemeanour.

Sarah Gl was charged with (leafing a black
filk cloak, value ifs. the property of Jonathan
Baker.

The tireonillatters of tit eat, it they trattf pi-1
red in evidence, were fuch as to Induce the Jury
to find the Pao tier Not Otitis.
Mary-air/ and Franceswere indided,
the former for ftealing a watch and fome money,
the property of Patrick Riley ; and the latter for
receiving the fame knowing it to be Rolm.
Patrick Miley Paid he was a Labourer in a ware-
honfe. On the 13th of July he and a friend bad
been drinking fome where in Old-fireet, St. Luke's,
where they met the Iwo prifoners [landing under
a gateway from the rain; they then took thefe
girls to a public houfe, where they fat drinking ale
for four or five hours•, the withefs then left his
friend and Phillips, and repaired to a houfe with
the prifoner Clark. After they were together for
fome time fhe went off, and he miffing his-purfe
and his watch, followed ler ; but fhe got away
from him. Oil the next day he faw his watch in
the poffefflon of a Conftable.
Patrick Divine, the perfon who had been in
company with the laft witne(s when they mtt the
two women, laid they drank until they were all
pretty well intoxicated. They went the next day
(the 14th of July) to the prifoner, and aiked her
for the watch ; Riley at the fame time promifed to
forgive her, and not auk the money the had taken,
if the would let him have the watch. She directed
him to the other prifoner Phillips, in whole pof-
fellion the watch was found.
The prifoners were both acysitted, from the fol-
lowing circumstance :—The indictment was laid
in London, becaufe the houfe in which the profe-
cutor had his laft interview with the prifoner
Clark, was within the City, in Golden-lane; but
every other place where he had previoufly been in'
her pompany was in Middlefex. On Mr. ALLEY'S
crofs•examining him, it appeared he had not feen
his watch for fome hours before the time he (wore
it was ftolen, which, together with the circum-
fiance of his being drunk, made it a queftion of
doubt with the Jury whetter the watch might not
have been ftolen in Middlifex ; and if it was, the
indiCtment mull have fallen to the ground. The
Jury availed themfelves of this doubt, and found
1 the prifoners Noi

Fran the LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 23.