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London, England, 1822-12-26 00:00:00

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these was neither doorlfer iiinflow at that part of the I
.louse to which the prisoner west. 'When he returned
.ko witness, he said Baldy'was out; 'they shortly after
this separated, and when witness had proceeded: about
forty rods down a turning out of Abe highroad, a
"man seized him behind';Witness tarried his head,
and saw it was the prisoner, who was immediately
joined by another man, and together they threw wit-
ness upon the ground, and both of -them kneeling
upon him, they robbed him of the property set forth I
in the indictment. They then left witness, who pro-
ceeded homewards very slowly, on account of one of
his ribs being Woken; and his body. otherwise much
wounded. • On the next day be went to Burwash, and
got there about ten o'clock t he went first to Pank-,
hurst's, to' know where 'the.prisoner lived; he then
went to Russell's, and told him about the robbery.
'Russell said he would find the prisoner, and went out
for that purpose, returning shortly afterwards with
him. Witness told the prisoner, if he would not re-
turn his watch, he would immediately take him be-
fore Squire Derby, the Magistrate. Prisoner told him
he was ready to go, but when he found Pettit was in
earnest, he was not willing. Witness, as it was ra-
ther dark, and he was afraid of an attempt at rescue,
let the prisoner go at large, upon his promising to
be at Russell's on the ensuing morning. Next morn-
ing witness took a constable to Russell's, and having
induced the prisoner to leave the house, where there
were a number of bad characters, gave him into the
custody of the constable, who took him to the Ma-
gistrate ; an examination took place, and the pri-
soner was committed.

Mr. ANDRCW3 then, at very considerable length,
cross-examined the witness, who acknowledged that
he WAS an informer, and that he was frequently
called by a variety of nick-names in the neighbour-
hood where be lived ; he was not drunk when he left
Russell's; four of them had drank five pints of beer;
in two of which there was some gin ; was sure he
WAS quite sober; did not send prisoner to Brady's
daughter, nor promise to give him some money if
he would go; did not know Mary Blackburn, nor
did he know Mary Pout ; did not say to Russell—
" I shall swear that tlaywood was the ,man who
robbed me, right or wrong ;" did offer to forgive the,
prisoner, and to give him a gallon of beer if he'
would give witness his watch ; the reason he did so
was because his wife set a high value upon it, her
son having given it to her as a keepsake a short time
previous to his death.
Several witnesses were then called for the defence,
and among them Mary Blackburn, who deposed, that
she was a monied woman, and resided with her hus-
band at Ticeliar,t ; on the 23d of Qctober, she had
been to Hailshain fair, and was returning to Tice-
huist at about nine o'clock at night, when she met
the prosecutor with whom she had some conversa-
tion, from whom she received a silver watch, he not
having any .money about him ; witness had never
seen the prosecutor until that night ; was averse to
his wishes, but thought she ha.l better comply peace-
ably than be forced.

The watch produced by Mrs. Blackburn was iden-
tified by the prcAectaor as the one taken from him
by the prisoner. The remainder of the articles he
had not seen.

His Lordship, after having recapitulated the dif-
fuse evidence of the numerous witnesses with great
minuteness, expatiated at length upon the number-
lets inconsistencies of the defence; on the other hand,
the Learned Judge observed, that the prosecutor's
confession of having, on the previous evening, under
the portico of the County Hall, said to one of the
witnesses (Russell) •" If you come here to speak
against me you must look to what you have sold me,
uncustomed spirits ;" greatly invalidated his testi-
' mony. His Lordship then said the Jury were to de-
termine to which set of witnesses they would give
credit for truth; and they shortly afterwards returned
a verdict of—No! Guilty.
The watch was ordered to be returned to Al: s.
Blackburn, notwithstanding the protestations of the
.prosecutor.