Star.
London, England, 1802-09-18 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Yeilerday nineteen prifoners Were tried, foo-.
teen of whoM were convicted of felony, viz
Sarah Pam", for Realiniai Yards of calico, the
ploperty .of J. Little ;
Mary Af‘Doeullel, for, healing A tl: Bank note,
the property of G. Beaumont ; .
Margurre, for healing a quantity of nails; the
property of F. Barron ;
W. Wells, for Ruling tit yards of printed cot.
ton, the property of R. Wrcaks ;
11: Fletcher, for healing a filk handkerchief, the
property of E. Brides ;
J. Saville, and . Kee', for healing a poCket-
book and other articles, the property of T. Hol-

brook ;
M., iffidlier, for healing a black filk cloak, the
property of Margaret Gredy ;
J Smith, for healing two 7s. pieces, the property
of Wm. Runciman ;
7. Wilfiaar, for healing a filk pocket handker-
chief, the property of C. Holland •
S. De Grave, for healing a tin box, and 4.5. 6d.
the property of G. Sikes ;
Jabs AU a. for healing four ounces of filver, the
property of Martha Clarke.
' Charles Clarke, fon of the profecutor, hated,
that having reafon to furpea the priforier, who
was one of the workmen in his mother's manu-
faaory, he marked fome pieces of flyer ; his
brother and himfelf watched him, and on Tuef-
day the aßth of March, fent for a conflable, who
fearched him, and found feveral of the pieces of
filver in his cuflody.
The prifoner produced feveral witneffes to his
charaCter ; but as the fad was proved, the Jury
found him Guilty.
Win. Hawes, for healing half an ounce of Myer,
the property of the above Martha Clarke.
Charles Clarke depofed, that this prifonet had
been employed by his mother as an apprentice, to
be approved. One morning, having gone into a
privy which is common to all the perfons in the
houfe, he obferved 2S. 6d. and tome halfpence on
a ledge ; the halfpence might have 'been obferved
by any perfon, but the es. 6d. were covered with
dufl. On the other fide of the privy there were
concealed fome bits of flyer, fuch as are ufed in
their manufactory. After he had come out of the
privy, he watched to fee who fhould go in next.
The prifoner went. After he came out the wit-
nefs proceeded to examine the place again, and
he miffed fome of the halfpence. He then fent for
a conftable' who fearched the prifoner, and found
one bit of Myers upon him fimilar to tilde in the
privy.
The conitable fwore, that he alto fearched the
privy, where he found as.6d. and about a fltillings-
worth of penny pieces, and fome of the pieces of
flyer mentioned above, which the prifoner cOnfef-
fed he had put there.
William Clarke, another fon of the profecntrix,
proved by particular marks, that the pieces of
ver were of the kind which is ufed in their manes
faftory.
Mr. juhice LIBLANC obferved to the Joey,
that the principal queftion for their confideration
was, whether the prifoner Bole all the pieces of
flyer or feveral of them at once, or only one at
time ? This made a confiderable difference, for
as the value of each piece did not exceed .tad. if
the Jury were of the latter opinion the prifoner
cauld only be convkted of petty larceny. The
probability in his opinion was, that a workman in
a manufactory where fuch pieces of flyer were
ufed, would take them away bit by bit ; but the
Jury would form their opinion on the evidence
which had been given.
The Jury found the prifoner guilty of healing
one piece, but on account of his. age (only 13)
recommended him to mercy.
The Ptofecutrix begged the Court would thew,
lenity to the prifoner.
The Court fair', that the recommendation fhould
be attended to.
Mit Allah for healing at Saines, on the 7th
of Mirch laft, a petticoat, value I as. the property
of William Lewis, Efq.
• It appeared ifi the courfe of the evidence, that
tet ptofecutor, Mr. Lewis, removed, in March
from North Badgely, in Hamp(hire, to Ham-
hte;cmith : a great part of his houfehold goods,
'.thefts with wearing apparel, &c. were put into
a travelling waggon, in order to be removed
to his new place of refidence. Upon the road,
hear Alton, the waggon was met by the prifoner,
WA another man, who agreed with the waggoner
for a ride to a certain diftance on the London
rood: they accordingly got in, and went with the
waggon as far as Staines ; they occafionally got
out and walked, as fuited their convenience. They •
quitted the waggon at Staines, and fhortly after
it was difcovered that one of the chefts had been
broken open, and a variety of things taken out,
particularly a japanned cafe, which contained
Mrs. Lewis's jewels; and other articles of very
onfiderable value : among other things taken
was a muflinet petticoat. Soon after, the prifoner
was apprehended on fufpicion of committing the
robbery ; but before his examinations by the Ma.
giftrates were concluded, he found means to ef-
cape. A man of the name of Knight was taken
up about the fame time on a fimilar fuficion, but
he was difcbarged. On the 29th of July, it ap-
peared that the Prifoner was apprehended a fecond
time, at his apartments in a Court neat Bilhopf-
gate•ftreet. One of the firft things obferved by
the Officers on entering, was a piece of fine mut:
linet, in ufe as a window-curtain. They imme-
diately took. paffeffion of it. The prifoner was
fearched, and in a pocket-book found on him, was
difcovered a duplicate, which was for a piece of
muflinet, which it was Coon found had bees
pawned by the prifoner's wife, and on comparing
this piece, and that ufed as a window-curtain,
they were found to have been originally one piece,
' and on being produced in Court, were defcribed
by Mrs. Lewis to have been the whole, or the
greater part of the petticoat which had been Nolen.
The prifoner told a long (tory in his ddence,
admitted that he had been in the waggon as far as
Staines, but denied knowing any thing whatever
of the robbery. lie Paid the piece of muilutet had

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• • --dni'tae, however, he adduced no proof, and nd,
-taittsefres appeared in his behalf. The jury hail'
little hefitation in finding him Guilty. t,
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And five Were acquitted, among whom wete
7oanaab iii•Cartby, a girl 18 years of age, was
tried for the wilful murder of her baftard female
child, which the indietment Rated to have been, by
the ProvidenceOf Goo, born Wit.
Mr:Ktrowt.ss opened the cafe on the part of,
the profecution, in the courfe of which he obi-err-
ed that the queftions the jury would have to de-,,
cidc were principally two—Firft, whether ~
child of which the prifoner was delivered, was,
born alive, for if born dead, it could. not be mug.,
dered. as ftated in this indietment ? Secondly, if
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born alive, whether the child which was found,
nod raid to be the child of the prifoner, was herli
child ? - '1
Mr. Barrett, an apothecary and tran--miderife,
at Limehoufe, fwore, that on I'uefday the sath of
Anguft, he fa* a female infant, and he examined
it to endeavour to arc-main whether it was born-
dead Or alive. He had formed his opinion then,:
and he was of The fame opinion now, which was,,
that the child was born alive. He proceeded to,
fay, " I have every reafon to believe now that tioxl
female thild which I faw and examined then, was
born alive, and had been born about ten or twelte
Doors heroic I few it, and had been in water about 1
(lye hours. On the Thurfday following, *hkh I
Was the 26th, in confequence of what was raid to
me by the pallet _officers, I went to the honk
where the prifoner lived with her mother ; I fate
the mother, and. I told her, in the prifoner's bear-
ing, there was a furpicion that one of her daughters
had been delivered of a child, and atked her whet*
the child was ? The mother raid in an Irith way,
to fuch think or fomething of that tort. I defiregl
to examine her daughter, to convince the oficersif
the print that the had not $ I went up debt With
the girl, but the helitated, and afterwards refuted
to let me examine her, upon which I went darn
Plaits again, but afterwards I did examine her;
Upon which I had eery reattin to believe that the
bad been delivered if i child, but to (late hors
icing is but of my liavret‘ ; I can only fay it war
tetently ; I diked her whete.the child *is 1 The
Mother made arifwer, the had tniftarried about it
week. I anted her again where the child Was !
but the made no slayer ; upon which the Was taken
i 4. I aced her tge !'ex ? She faid it was a boy/
but afterwards Ibe raid the did not know what
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pas' ; I never entertained any doubt that the cho-
- .i'avr knit examined.was born kliVe."
Mt. Baron kin HAIN.III If is 1. y-duty to wait
you, Sir, that you have (worn before the Coroner,
4: jolt thought it was iinpoifible for you, or any
C.al man t6fay whether that child was bora
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withers explained by raying he meant no
. IPM .bp that than til fab as- the body was not
_ impoffible to fay With certainty
`...e:l:' . Child was born alive or not ; but he
- rearon to believe, at that time, and he
fame opinion now, that the child vat

Hotwais. 811 Mg- to* derkand be-
Sir, What It is Yin 'Orr* now, be-
, my hand4inir'eklitilistition before
which you fStote It .Witsbnpotbie
to fay *Seth& thild was born
not now itseitt.to Vat that tat
alive, but it it to*. idly,
the titeunsaldirlit I" _
Lord, that is *it &pilaf* Wtl44.
yon do not 06w fcreafpoeitelf tit
child Wks born alive!
cannot (wear ofitively to the tatt,
of the ()Stets of tl4P3rifh &aort—
as frmale infant it WU then deed •
the &ore Of the river of Linieboute,
had left it. It' had been for Come
Batt befOre under water. There wan the mark of
it blow on the right fide-of the head Vibe* I Writh-
ed it.. I took it to the public houfe, kat the Sur-
geon was tent for. •
Jane Stevenfon, a widow—" moo it NO. 6,
King John's Court, adjoining the houfe *here the
ptifoner lived, with nothing-but a lath and platter
Partition between Us;. to that I -tan hear every
word thatpaties. On the Saturday morning be-
/Ore the body was tonnkl went tathe priforser's
houfe to light a candles .I taw her: the was ap-
parently in the pains of labour. I was Cure the was
pregnant.; for I had teen her every day. She was
oa her knees Irani.% over a chair and reaching
Violently ; the wastp (Iron& ybriur. On the ken-
day following I fanfherlittmg With her brother's.
child on her anti r I. thought their that the had
• been delivered.,, afterwards heard of a child be-
ing found, and / afked her to go with nit tofee
• st.; the laid the would, but afterwards the told me
her 'hoe; were out of the way, and the could Rot
go. lam quite fure that at four o'clock in the
afternoon of the Saturday before the Tuefdiy
.when the child was found, that the:fiat in labOurd
;.Catharinc Savage, the wife of lfaac Savager.
w I live neat door to the houfe of the prifoner.—
on the Saturday before the Tue(dav when the
abild was fotinct,4:l:e went to bed late, and about
half pill foar,in th inornink, I bs.Atd a noire. like
ibe crying:of a child; hilt I. thought it Was the
noife of a pig. I did not tee the prifoner again
until after the was taken."
Dalton-64 lam the Conftable -who
took the Prifoute into cullody, When I took her
to the Work-houfe, Lanced herif the had been guilty
the horrid crime of killing the child ? Shtqatiti
the would tell me the thole truth, when her
tjier came. I went hick to fee for ha mother, bull
Se had abfconded. • I returned tit tite Prifoner,
rad told her I could not find her =Other. Th;
rifoner told,Me, the had had a child delivered as
the -flood before the bed-fide, on the Saturday be-
fore the Duel-day on which the body was found.
She fail that the took the child and put it on one
- Ade, and went to put it into the ditch. I tinted,,
her what ditch ? rot there are two ditchel uso
their houfe. She fetid the pee the' child in••
ditch at the back of their bode at high-water;,
but that her Mother could fay: rg about it thjan
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Ppfoner afterwards, told' me the 'wOult ell the
whole truth if the two winuen who were prefent
would go out of the room. She then told• me
tee the took ;he 'child over the bridge and threw
itltto the ditch the neareft to their bode, and that
her mother had nothing to do with it ; that the
had don; it herfelf., I' afked her if the child was
alive ? She faid the could not tell, for that the had
a dimnefs over her eyes. At firft the faid it was
a male child; but afterwards, the faid fhe could
not tell what it was."

Ann Hurft.—l am one of the poor women
maintained in the Parith Work-houfe of Lime-
honk t I heard the Prifoner fay to Mr. Dalton
(the left Winters), that the had been brought to
bed between fix and (even on the Saturday night
-*tie did not fay whether it was alive or dead : I
did not hear her fay whether it was a male or a
female—it was on a Saturday, but I cannot fay
what Saturday it was. .
' Mr. Baron HOT 14 AM. • You have fivorn that the
raid the was delivered of a dead born child. •
Witnefs. I did not hear her
,fay fo, 'Sir—l
never heard her fay whether the was delivered of
a dead child or a living—t She foot* before the
Coroner the heard the Prifoner fay Die was deli-
vered of a dead-born child.) •
, Mr. Baron HOT kl AM. fummed up the evidence,
after which, • •
The Jury deliberated a few tnitutrei, and found
the Prifoner—,Not Guilty. - • '
. Mary ARM Fifier was charged with a -capital of-
fence, in Reeling a Inver watch-,, eiduai4o
lings, and four and fixpenee in (aver, the property
of Thomas Cook, privately-from his per Ton.
This affair which legallf meditated a fatal ter-
mination to the Prifoner, was the tefult of a pro-
jetted Pophion rencounter. By the Rory of the
Profeentor' an elderly man, it appeared, that he
was going home through HOThOlithetefeett twelve
and one o'clock in the-morning of the toeh of le l
month. He laid he was not much intoxicated;
but knew perfectly well what he was Jtinim 'and
doing. Near the end of Gray'sinst-itioe kerns
accolled by the Prifoner' with a 44 gdod night,
my dear."—He returned the complinfent. lake
:liked him to go bomtWith her, which he refuted,
She then elat'ped him round the middle, and put
her hand towards the upper part. of his breeches ;
be immediately put his hand dovrit to guard his
watch, but without effed—it was gone—the
whole was the work of a moment. The Profeintor
then gave the alarm to loudly, at w bring the
tardy and decrepid guardian; cf the nit to the
fpot, where he accufed her of the ;theft., • She de,
nied it of courfei but very near
,the fpot where
the Rood, the watch vritafbattd.oft-tbe paval)4l4.‘
He Crated that money.tii- the flittbinst-hild in' the
indictment, was taken : ouy of lb- pate. A
fearch of the Prifener, ,*ho bad been forthwith
hurried to the Watch.honfe, ,illimediately• took
place. None of the Prbfecutees flyer-coin could
be found on her. The latter feat' in this Rate-
ment, were proved by the Watchnten, Conftahle,
Sec. whofe affittance had been retorted to.
_ In her defence; the Prifoner, who fpoke very
well, alerted that the Profecutor suet:riled: her
firß : he was confiderably intoxicated; he wanted
her to go home with him, which the refuted ; his
I.piaons then became fo unruly that he behaved
'rich much rudenefs and indecency w her, which
the -refilled, and that it mutt have been in confe•
toence of what the Prifoner did himfelf that his
-watch. dropped from him.
. Mr. ju ice CHAIN-Bas, in his Charge to the
Jury, obferved, that by the evidence of the Pro-
'ftcuttir, the capital part of the charge, that of
E"sealing privately from, the perfon, was clearly
done away, as he Rated he had felther hands
about his perfon before theswatch was taken.—
With refped to the general confideration of the
cafe, the Jury would decide from a review of the
evidence.
The Jury had very little hefitation in acquitting
the Prifoner.
Henry Roy, y. . copoliand yobn Morgan,
were arraigned upon an indictment which Rates,
that Henry Ray, on itia lafitli of March, in the
42d year of the reign of otir Lord the King, of his
mahee albrethought, orith' a pidol loaded With
powder and a'leaden bullet, (hot one John Bremar,
klieg fit the peace of Giro, and cif oar Lord
the King, to wit, at the Cape of Goodllope, be,
irtind Seas, de.- of' which, on the fame day, he
died, and that the other two prifoners were erefent,
aiding, abetting, comforting, and maintaining the
Paid Henry Kay, whereby they, the Paid John
Brertar did kill and murder—that is to fay, the
deceafed was (hot .in a duel, in which Mr. Ray
was principal, and the other two prifoners feconds.
They pleaded. Not Ccuilty. -t
They were informed- thrt were to be tried on
ToefdapPext, and then they withdrew.
Mioviaux gissioes.—Yellerday a great num-
bet' of petty offences, Sec. were determined, fcamely
any. of which were of importance enough to be
noticed.
Thom Cole was Antacid to be tranfported for
feven years, Corr' piflut a. gentleman's pocket of
his pocket-bodes. JFiarrits.the evidence of the pre e-
entor (who is-a foreigner) it appeared the prifoner,
made the attempt lit the ufaal way, but, being
obferved, ran off With the book: he was,, how'
ever, purfued and taken. Another wittier: law
the Prifoner run, -and alto law him throw a
pocket-book from him when puttied. which the
rwitnefs picked up, and which the profecutor (wore
1-to be his property.
At the tircnit Court of jullieiary at Perth, on
the Bth ittttant,William Turnereeintnerin Brechin,
Marge Burke, horfe hirer there, and Colin Kid,
;let*** or late ihrvant, in.Peteritthe taunt at
'Hittateshtiltie, in the Connty of Ferfair, lirre ac-
[djatitf tiolently affiulting and earryttig off by'
"fie rait john Brand, Efq. Litirieflon, the' dele-
d&ofenthe of &fete, as he was tra.
by WO
og from./dontrokto Ikeebits iii his own
e, haling facet the to' ditisionsn;
!ikko tine of.the horfiasand eartiage.
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