Star.
London, England, 1814-09-23 00:00:00

OLD BAILEI.

Ye, terday Abraham :Selzer, collecting clerk to Messrs.
Coding and Co. Canniat Aie Brewery, Knig
'csdirs-
bridge, was ii dieted for feloniously embezzlin2Elo,
which he had received on -account of his employers.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Godiiig, that
the prisoner was allowed a salary of three guineas
and a half a week, and sixpence spending money for
every house he went into, whether he received any
money there or not. A publican who keeps the Brick-
layers Arms, in Duke-street, Grosvenor-square,
proved, that on the '23.1 day of July last, the witness
paid the prisoner £lO on account of Messrs. Goding
and Co. for which the pi isoner gave a receipt, entering
it at the same time, in the witness's cheque book, as
usual. The prosecutor and his cashier proved that
the sum in question was never accounted f I. to either
of them, although there was an entry in the priso-
ner's book of a charge of sixpence spent by himin the
publican's house, on the 23d of July. The prisoner's'
deficiency in whole exceeded £2OO. The Jury found
the prisoner—Guilty.
John lirz;01 was indicted for stealing a sow pig,
value 50s. the property of Sarah Mard-mdale, at
Stanmore, on the 3lst of August. The entrails wet e
found buried in 'the prisoner's garden, and the head
and carease in a field at a short distance from his,
house. The Jury found the prisener—Guilty.
Jew: ThcLer, aged seven, and A. Ward, aged
nine years, were indicted, on the prosecution of the
National School Society, for 'stealing ; and Sarah
Broadift.W, aged 41 years, for feloniously receiving,
knowing it to be stolen, four pounds of bacon, the
property of John Griffiths.
The case was clearly made out by the testimony
of another young boy, an accomplice, by that of the
officer, who found the bacon on searching Broad-
Lid's premises, and by the evidenced* person who
saw the woman purchase the bacon front one tsf the
boys, for a shilling, and placc it on the spot where it
was afterwards found by the officer. It also appeared
that the wornin prisoner, who lived in Field-lane, en-
couraged the boys in their depredations, receiving
from them property of evtry description, and insti.
gating them to the cormnissL.n of offences of greater
magnitude, directing their attention to soinett,;.,4
better than bacon, such as silver articles, &c. The
Jury having found all the three prisoners—Guilty,
The RECORDER addressed the woman prisoner,
who, it appeared, had attempted to bribe the officer
-by an offer of forty or fifty pounds, that. the Jury
having now dole their duty by finding her guilty, he
should not do his duty to the public did be not pass
upon her the extreme sentence which the law awarded
for offences of the nature of that of which she had
been convicted!, and which he assured her, at the pro-
per season, he should order her to undergo. As to
the boys, he should consider of what could be done
to reclaim and save them.

Yesterday morning the RECORDER sent for the
mother of a boy, convicted of a capital offence, and
asked her, if lie were inclined to punish her son
sightly, whether the would take care and keep him
• from such courses in future ? The poor woman,
with tears, said, she would use her utmost endeavour ;
but expressed her (ears, that, if the Recorder did not
punish the boy a little, he would return to the same
snfamous coupes. The Recorder said, it was proper
for her, and the parents of all children, to know, as
well as the public at large, that, in consequence of
the immense number of boys now swarming in the
streets of this Metropolis to commit crimes, it had
been determined, that the next boy (whatever his
age may be) who should be capitally convicted, most
be hanged, in order to induce parents to take care of
their cli•ld• en ; cr if that could not be done, to deter
boys from the commission cf crimes, by the example
and certainty, that their youth would not screen them
from the last dreadful punishment of the law. In
compliance with the poor woman's wish, that her son
should not be diicharged without suffering some
punishment, he ordered him to be confined a month'
apart from other prisoners, to keep him from contrac-
ting their habits, hoping that it would operate as a
warning to him in his future conduct.
The f.lliaving prisoners were convicted of felony :
Mary Norris, for stealing a watch ; J. Piper and
J. Clarke, for stealing several pieces of woollen cloth;
J. Sidney, for stealing two sheets ; J. Weston, for
stealing eleven shirts ; Hannah Hendrick, for steal-
ing a gown and other articles ; Sarah Moore, for
stealing a watch ; J. Nastily', for stealing £l4 in
bank notes ; Mary Ann Pick, for stealing a sheet and
a pair of bellows ; N. Norcutt, for stealing a pair of
bouts (fined Is. and discharged) ; J. Shepherd, for
stealing a shirt ; J. Keith and James Eves, fir steal-
ing twelse pocket handkerchiefs; Thomas O'Neil,
fer stealing sixteen handkerchiefs; J. Williams, for
stealing two gowns ; J. Wood, for stealing divers
. carpenters tools ; .t. Wilson, for stealing a piece of
wren. baize ; Mary Cotton, alias Cordon, alias Chat-
.
• barn, for stealing a gown ; Sarah Simmons, for steal-
ing an infant child (sentenced to be transported for
seven years) ; W. Stiles, for stealing six pounds of
saindles ; and W. Hodson, for receiving the same.
Garr Davis, a fisherman, and Thomas Davis, a
obiumay-sweep, were indicted, the former 16r stealing
and the latter for receiving a deal plank, value 12s.
The counsel for the prosecution stated, that the
contractors for building the new bridge) had suffered
very heavy Rases, in consequence of numbers Of their
planks being stolen at different times, and at length
when they discovered one of their planks in the pos-
session (.1 the receiver, and finding who the thief was,
they resolved to prosecute them.
/Award Dykcs, one of the contractors for buil ling
ibs Strand Bridge, identified tie plank, whicli he

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sew, previous to the end of August, lying in one or
the coffer dams in the middle of the River ; when 112
saw the plank on the dam, he could not tell whether
it was fasteded or not. lie afterwards saw the plank.
in the cellar of Thomas Davis, placed under some
soot bags. Davis was a chimney-sweeper. There
were other deals besides the plank in question. When
the r.fficer asked him how he came by the deals ? '
sail, that they had been left there by somebody, who
it was, he did not know.
Oii the witness being cross-examined by Mr.
ALLEY, he said that at one time when he saw the
plank, it was nailed to the dam, and that he did not
at any subsequent time see it loosened.
The Counsel for the prosecution said he had no
more evidence to produce.
When the Jury were called on for their verdict, and
told by the RECOII DER there was an end of the case,
they hetitated and seemed inclined to convict the
pt isoners.
Mr. ALLEY" Gentlemen, surtly you canot give
.
a verdict against law.
Mr. RECORDER--" Gentlemen, I have no good
opinion of this Davis the chimney-sweep. When the
plank was found in his cellar, he gave a very imper-
fect affel equitocating account of the manner in which
it came there. But whatever you may think of him,
and whether you believe him to be the receiver or not,
you cannot convict him as such, unless the thief is
first foundsuilty. Now there is no evidence whatever
against Davis the fisheman, who stands charged
with having stolen the plank, and therefore both
prisoners must be acqUitted."—Not Guilty.
The following were also acquitted;—David,and
Rachael Russell, B. Wolfe, M. Welch, Catharine
Henley, and Elizabeth Jones.