Star.
London, England, 1813-12-06 00:00:00

L 4 IV INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF KING'S 'BENCH, DECEMBER 4.
• RANDALL V. AMDLOR. •
This cause excited considerable mirth. It was en,
action to recover damages for a trespass, in forcibly,
detaining a large Newfoundland dog. The eau*
lasted near four hours, and exhibited the greatest body'
of contradictory evidence respecting the identity of an
animal that was perhaps ever given in a court of jus-
tice. The plaintiff, who keeps an aqua fortis manu-
factory in the City Road,had purchased the dog of a
farrier for six pounds, and kept him constantly in his
,yard. In July last the dog had been taken out by
two of his men, and being seen by the defendant, a
salesman in Newgate-market, was instantly claimed
as belonging to him.
The dog, a remarkably fine animal, with peculiari
';narks, was produced in Court, and, to use the ex-
pression
of the Attorney-General, was the best wit-i
ness in the cause. ' It was proved he was only four
years old.
On the part of the defendant, nearly all the trades-
men of Newgatr Market attended, and their evidence
-went the positive length of saying, that the dog had
been in possession of the defendant about six years
age, at which time he was a pnepy, and being a re- I
inArkably beautiful animal, was wt ll known through-1
out the mat ket, and that they were all of them filly-
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convinced, from the marks of the dog, that it was the
property of the defendant. - 1
Lout ELersenottorett, in summing up, took OCCA-
Lion to allude to the difficulty of ascertaining the i
identity of •an animal ; and in this case, where one ,
party proves the pedigree, and the other proves a
variety of marks, it was equally fair to presume from
the respectability of the parties, that the witnesses on
both sides gave their evidence under a firm persua-
sion that each of them were perfectly right, and con-
sequently, whichever of them was wrong, he would
rather place it to error than any other motive.
The. Jury retired about an hour—Verdict- for the
plaintiff, Is. damages, and the dog to be restored.
• OLD BAILEY.
Saturday J. Kane. otherwise Wright, was indicted
for forging several bank notes. Prisoner went to the
Equestrian Coffee-house, in the Blackfriars-1 oad, on
the eth of November, called for two bottles of wine,
and tendered a 45 note. Mrs. Taylor, the landlady,
suspecting it was a forged one, made known her sus-
picions to a Mr. Micklethwaite, who caused the pri-
soner to be taken into custody. On presenting the
' note at the Bank, it was instantly pronounced to be
a forgery, and Foy, a police officer, on searching his
lodgings, found other forged ones, secreted under the
carpet, and a considerable quantity of counterfeit
tokens Guilty—Death.
J. Ploruer stood charged with having secreted sun.
dry letters, and stealing therefrom country Bank, and
other notes. The prisoner was a letter-carrier be-
longing
to the Twopenny Post-office In the White-
chapel district, and he was in the practice of sorting I
some of those letters which came by the General Post-
,office artd,addressed beyond the boundary of the Ge-
neral Pose-office delivery. During such employment,
several letters were missing, in consequence of which
ll aow-street -officer was sent for, who, on the morn-
ing of the 25th of October, found on the person of
the prisoner a letter, which trad been opened, and from
which a bill of exchange for £20.0105. had been
taken. There were several other witnesses who fully
proved the guilt of the prisoner. Guilty—Death.
P. IV. Plemer. for stealing seven gold seals, value
£l2, the property of J. B. Jarman, in his dwelling-
house, was also capitally convicted.
M. Farrell was indicted for bigamy, in intermarry-
ing with a Miss Pollard. '
The prisoner was a soldier, and an officer's servant,
in the Monaghan Militia, and was married by Father
O'Kiel, a Priest, at the house of Mr. Barry, in the
County of Cork, in 1797, to Mary Featherstone, by
whom he had three children, who are living. The
brother of the first wife was present at the solemni-
zation of the marriage, but he could not understand
the language, as he was ignorant about Latin and
Greek. He took the prisoner before the Priest with
a file of men, as he had run away with Mary Feather.
stone ; but when he got there, she made all matte's
up, and was married. She was a Catholic, but witness
, was a Protestant. The marriage was proved by ano-
ther witness.
Elie. Pollard stated herself to be the daughter of a
deceased officer- About three years ago, when with