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London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

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COURT OF KING'S RENCIT, JANUARY s.
THE KIM V. DANIEL ASHER ALEXANDER.
This was an indictment at the instance of the Ma-
gistracy of the County of Kent, against the. deceit-
dant, an eminent architect, for alleged fraud. There
were two sets of counts—one charging that the de-
fendant had falsely, corruptly, unlawfully, and de-
ceitfully, defrauded the inhabitants of the county of
Kent of the sum of £2O. 9s. 4d. by falsely pretend-
ing that he hail paid that sum to one John Smith, a
person employed by hiat to survey and measure the
works going nn in tho -building of Maidstone Jail
and House of Correctioo, an erect which the defen-
dant had been employed by the Magistrates as archi-
tect; whereas, in truth and in fact, he had not paid
that money to the said John Smith: the second set
of counts were founded on an alleged false pretence,
that the defendant had paid a person named John
Phillips a sum of £l9. 4s. 6d. for his expenses, &c.
in attending a Committee of the House of Commons
as a witness against a Bill pending in Parliament fur
defraying the expense of erecting Maidstone Jail and
House of Correction; whereas, in truth and in fact, he
had only paid the said John Phillips the suns of 0.25.
The case was in substance this :—The defendant
was employed, in 1810, to build Maidstone Jail by
contract. He had sent in a Report to the Magis-
trates at Sessions of the probable expense of the work,
and what were to be his own charges, &c. In that
Report, Le stated that it would be necessary to em-
ploy a surveyor to measure and value the work as it
went on, who was to be paid at the rate of one per
cent. upon the work for his trouble. After he had
entered into the contract, he employed as the sur-
veyor a Mr. John Smith, who owed him money, and
it was agreed that the latter should receive only three
quarters per. cent. for his trouble. Mr. Smith had no
clerks of his own; but it was understood, though not
distinctly proved, that the defendant was to retain
the other quarter per cent to compensate his own
clerks for their trouble in making out fair copies, &c.
of Mr. Smith's valuations. The defendant, in making
out his accounts of disbursements, charged the whole
amount of the one per cent. as having been paid by
him to Mr. Smith, whereas he had paid the latter
but three-quarters per cent. The Justices in Sessions
passed the account, and ordered the Treasurer of the
County to pay the money. By this transaction it was
alleged that the defendant had put into his own
pocket the mm of £20.95. 4d. In 1813, a Bill was
pending before Parliament, relating to the mode in
which the expense of building the new Jail was to be
defrayed, which was opposed by the Magistracy, and
the defendant was employed to prepare the necessary
evidence, and produce the proper witnesses to sustain
the opposition. Mr. John Phillips, a surveyor, was
employed to prepare estimates, and attended two days
as a witness before the Committee of the House of
Commons, to whom the Bill had been referred, and
for his trouble received two guineas. The defendant.
in his account rendered of expenses and disburse-
ments on that occasion, charged the sum of El 9.45.6 d.
as having been paid to Mr. Phillips for his attend-
ance-as a witness. The defendant had, in fact, paid
him an additional sum of 4:6 for his trouble in pre-
paring estimates for the information of the Commit-
tee. The Magistrates at Sessions confirmed the de-
fendatn's account, and ordered it to be paid, but sent
him a message, informing him that he was dismissed
from his employment as Architect of the Jail. The
defendant had been in attendance at the Sessions, in
order to explain his accounts, but was not called in,
an.' was in the manner abovemeutioned summarily
dismissed. These alleged frauds were committed so
long ago as the year 1813. In 1819 the defendant pro-
secuted to conviction one of his clerks, named Hunt,
for gross fraud, by altering the defendant's accounts
of disbursements, and pocketing the difference; and
the defendant had himself paid upwards of £2OOO to
reimburse the county for these frauds. In Septem-
ber, 1819, this indictment was preferred against the
defendant : he was then in France, where he now re-
mains, confined to his bed by severe illness. It did
not appear that the defendant had ever been called
upon to explain his accounts, or that there was any
thing erroneous in them until the present indictment
was preferred. The whole amount of his accounts
concerning the Jail was upwards of £190,000, and
it did not appear that there was any other exception-
able item beyond those which were the foundation of
the present charge. His own personal charges for his
trouble, &c. were certainly upon the most. liberal
scale, namely, five guineas per diem, exclusively of
travelling expenses, making plans, estimates, &c.
Mr. SCARLET?, in addressing the Jury, urged the
staleness of the charge—the trifling amount of the
supposed frauds, compared with the magnitude of
the concern in which the defendant was employed—
the harshness of prosecuting a respectable and ho-
nourable man, without any previous requisition to
explain his accounts—and the possibility that these
charges might have been made by mistake, or by the
innocent means which the lapse of nine years ren-
dered it difficult to explain. He pressed the impro-
bability that the defendant, who was a man of un-
questionable honour and integrity, should lend him-
self to such petty frauds, which must be beneath the
notice of the most sordid mind.
Several most respectable witnesses gave the defen-
dant the highest possible character for honour and
rity, during a interity, period of thirty years.
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The CHIEF twits summed up the case with
great minuteness, and the Jury immediately found
the defendant Not Guilty.

LONDON SESSIONS.
Yesterday these Sessions commenced, when Ztiva-
Leth Morley and Sarah Turner were charged with
assaulting a watchman. They were inhabitants of
Houndsditch, and were standing at the,
end of that place on the sth ult. about ten o'cloCk at
night, and, on the watchman ordering them to move
on, they fell upon him and tried to strangle him ;
and some othei s of the sisterhood also assisted in beat-
ing iiiin.—Guilty. Morley to be imprisoned for six
wonths, Turner three months. _

Palmer was indicted for assollting Joseph
Sullivan, and Mary his wife. Mr. Maling, of Brack-
ley, in Berkshire, who supplies the London market
with butter, appointed the defendant his agent to
search for and seize the fiats us they came to market ;
Nut he, who is known in the markets as " the fiat-
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demanded it: and, on Sullivan stating that he had
had it Rom Ferner, a fruiterer, in Fleet-market, and
no one-else should have itt, he rushed _bye and seized
it. ilatan making some spew of resistance, th
defendant knocked his bat over-his face. Sullivan's
wife, who was exfitmilk, coming up at the Ferment,
and some blows passed.
was pushed down by Palmer,
Palmer, however, carried away the flat.
The Common Sen.:east strongly condemned the
defendant's conduct; who, he said, had niright to
seize the flats wherever he found them, and thus take
the law into his own hands.
The Jury found him Guilty and the Court, after
some communication between the
ne plofain4o2. tiff and de.
fondant, sentenced him to pay a -fi
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. •
John Mills was indicted for assaulting Sarah, the
wife of Robert Nubes.
The defendant keeps a public-house in Spitalfields.
One Saturday, in October, at twelve at night, the
prosecutrix went to Mills's house for her husband,.
whom she found quite drunk, sitting with Mills.—
She asked biro if he was coming home? but he made
her no answer; and she told )dills that he ought to
be very much ashamed of himself to encourage her
husband to spend all his earnings. Milk told her, if,
she was. impudent he would turn her out. She was
going, when Mills followed her, and struck her so
violent a blow, as to break the bridge of her nose.—
This was the lady's story ; but a person who went
with her to the public-house, swore, that she pulled
her husband and Mills about, rapped at the shuttersf
called his wife a cribbage-faced —, and himsel
" Jack Mills." He then did strike her with
his open back-hand.
Verdict—Guilty; but it appearing afterwards that
she had first spit in Mills's face, he was only fined
thirteen shillings and faurpence.
Mary Anne Bliss, Ephraim Bond, and J. Mills
'(not present) were indicted for a conspiracy to.get
and keep, by fraud and force, possession of a house,
N 0.239, in the Strand.
Mrs. Eppey, the prosecutrir, has this house and
some others, on the rents of which she lived, and
Mrs. Bliss applied for this house, but was refused, as
it was found to be intended for a coffee-shop. Mills,
an upholsterer, then took the house, and let it to
Mrs. Bliss, who began to pull it to pieces.
The CHAIRMAN being of opinion, that in the ab-
sence of Mills a charge of conspiracy could not be
supported, the defendants were acquitted.
Joseph Hitchin was indicted for assaulting Ben-
jamin Matthews. The defendant had a small house
in Clerkenwell. He was in arrear for the Poor.'-rate,
and when the prosecutor, an old man, went, as he
was authorised, to distrain on his goods, Hitchin
threw him out of the house with great violence. The
object being to chew the neighbours that they must
pay the rates, Hitchin was allowed to plead Guilty,
and to enter into recognizances to keep the peace.
T. Sok", J. W. Grab, W. Green, R. Harwood, and
J. Abbott, were indicted for a riot in the parish of
St. Dunstan, Stepney.
Soley rented two rooms in a house belonging to
Mr. Smith. He came one evening, with the four,
others, and began to demolish or remove the fixtures.
Smith remonstrated, and one of them told him, he
would break his -- neck, and throw his carcase
into the street. They then locked him into a room,
and lighted a fire outside a grate in another, leaving
lam locked up, and the fire in the other room burn-
ing, with coopers' chips and shavings. This col-
lected a mob about the house.

The CHAIRMAN held that this was no riot; and
the defendants were acquitted.

William ,Henry Rockford, a painted,whiskered, and
mustachioed dandy, of the very first water, was in-
dicted for assaulting Mary Anne Kent, but the Lady
not appearing, he was acquitted.
W. Cowley was indicted for receiving 75 yards of
linen, and two yards of ticking, the property of Thos.
George, knowing them to be stolen.
The prosecutor lives in Greek-street, Soho, and sus-
pecting that his apprentice had too much. money, he
questioned him, and in consequence of what he told
him, he went with officers to the prisoner's house in
Vine-street, Chandos-street, and found the property.
Cowley said he bought it of a hawker.
G. Sopp, the apprentice, knew Cowley, and sold
this cloth to him. The last piece he sold on the 27th
of October. He had sold him three pieces. Cowley
keeps a marine-store shop, and witness went and
asked him to buy whole pieces of linen, which he
sold at 3d. and Sid, per yard, without being asked
how he came by it. Mr. T. George proved that the
cloth was worth lsh.2d. per yard.
Crosserantined.—Sopp commenced being a thief
when he came to his master, about eight
.years ago,
by stealing a few halfpence from him.
Jeffries, the officer, said, Cowley's sister told him
that she was to make up the linen into shirts for
her brother.—Several witnesses gave Cowley a good
character, Verdict—Guilty.
The Court ihen sentenced him, for encouraging
the boy in robbing his master, to be imprisoned one
year in the Hosse of Correction.
Messrs. C. Mott, W. Butler,, and W. Duna, tried on
Monday for,an assault on the Bow,-street patrol,which
appeared in the STAR of yesterday, were brought up
to receive the sentence of the Court, which was, that
they should be fined 13s. 4d. each, which they paid,
and were discharged.
Mrs. Christiana Baldwin, a female, most elegantly
dressed, was put to the bar to plead to an indictment
for a fraud, in. paving obtained money from William
Pope, under fa he pretences, she pretending that she
could obtain him a situation under Government, con.
trary to the statute. There is also another indictment
against her for misdemeanour. She pled Not Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN inquired if she was quite ready
to proceed to trial ?—The Defendant—Not immedi-
ately ; I will be in two or three days.
The CHAIRMAN.—Has this Lady a legal adviser?
A Solicitor observed that Mr. Adolphus was em.
plopecl as her Counsel.
Mr. ADOLPHUS.-4 have been only just informed
that I am to be Counsel for the defendant ; I ave
not been able to give her any advice; but I can w
inform her that she cannot traverse this case util
nest Session, as, by a late Act of Parliament, the right
to traverse is taken away from her.
The CHAIRMAN.....-Let it stand then for Saturday,
nest.--The defendant then withdrew.
Samuel Stallwood was indicted by the Trustees of
the Highgate and Hampstead Road for a nuisance, in

having erected cellars in Gray's Inn-lane, in the Pa-
' rish of St. Pancras, under the King's highway.
It appeared that the defendant had taken a field df
ground of Lord Calthorpe. situated at the upper end
of Gray's Inn-lane, on .which he had built several
houses; one of which was a public-house; denomi-
nated the Calthorpe Arms, and he had built cellars
under the road, to hold beer in, which was the nui-
sance complained of. •
In defence, it was contended, that the premises be-
longed to Messrs. Reid and Co. brewers; and that the
defendant erected the cellars by their orders ; and if
they were ar nuisance, Messrs. Reid and Co. were the
persons that ought to have been,indicted.
Mr. Beast, Counsel fur the defendant, called wit-
nesses to prove this fact, but their evidence failed.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned
Chairman, found the defendant Guilty; and he was
bound over, in his own recognizances of 12200, to
abate the nuisance.
John Gardner and John Sparbs were indicted for
assaulting Stephen Randall Wapshott, on the 2d of
December last, in the Parish of Chiswick, in the
County of Middlesex.
It appeared that the prosecutor and the defendant
Gardner, were rival cow-keepers, at- Chiswick, and
the defendant Gardner, who was also Parish Con-
stable of Chiswick, had assaulted the prosecutor, and
had also encouraged the defendant Sparks, and ano-
ther of his cow-boys, to beat the prosecutor, who is
a diminutive man, and to throw him into a ditch.
Several witnesses were examined on both sides, and
the evidence was very contradictory.
The CHAIRMAN left it to the Jury to decide which
set of witnesses they would believe, and they found the
defendants Guilty.—The Court sentenced the de-
fendant Gardner to pay a fine of £lO, with liberty
to speak to the prosecutor ; and the prisoner Sparks
to pay a fine to the King of 3s. 4d.—The rest of the
day was consumed in petty assaults.

MA Nato wHou s a.—Yesterday Frances Tridddl was
charged with innumerable impositions upon parishes,
by claimjpg relief as a pauper. For .19 years she
had been a burden upon one parish, without having
any legal claim.—Mr. Gould, Churchwarden of St.
Pancras, in the City, stated, that one day iast week,
the prisoner claimed relief as one of the poor of the
parish, in which, she said, she had lived as servant
with parties who are now dead. Three an 4 six-
pence a week was paid to her; and upon reference
to the books, it was found that, since the year 18432,
she had been imposing on the parl'sh.— Mr. Williams,
Churchwarden of St. Olave's,. Hart-street, stated, that
the prisoner had been passed to that parish: from
.Whitechapel, in 1819, and had been frequently re-
lieved. On Friday last the prisoner applied for relief,
and was told she should be taken into the Work-
house, but this she refused. The prisoner had im-
posed upon other parishes, and got amongst them a
very comfortable livelihood, by the mere force of
hard swearing. The above case was, however,
thought quite sufficient to prosecute her upon.—She
was fully committed.
GUILDHALLe--T. Arnold was brought up on sus-
picion of felony. It appeared that the prisoner is a
tailor, working in a shop with twenty-two others, and
one of them missing a gold seal and a half-crovin
from the pocket of a wai.tcoat he had left on the
board, his suspicion fell on the prisoner, and he went
to his lodging at Limehouse, to sift the girl, with
whom he was living, on the subject. He asked for
the duplicate Of the seal, as if he knew it was pawned,
, when the girl said the prisoner had the duplicate with
him ; to other questi. ins she said that he had brought
home a half-crown on the day in question, which he
said he had risked his neck for. The girl was called,
but she said that she had admitted what the prose-
cutor asked, because she would not make Arnold ap-
pear to be a liar; she knew he was a shopmate, and
thought Arnold might have stated what was enquired
about. The property not having been found, and the
prisoner strongly asserting his innocence, the Magis-
trate thought there was no ground for his detention.
John Chapman was brought up, having been given
into custody by the Inquest of Castle Baynard Ward,
who, as they were returning through St. Paul's
Church-yard, after being sworn in, were shocked at
the dreadful oaths made nse of by the prisoner, a
stage-coachman. Some brother of the whip, it seems,
who is in the habit of ridiculing him as a cuckold, had
raised his ire.—The Magistrate, with the consent of
the complainants, discharged him with a reprimand.
MARY-LA-BONNE OPTlM—Yesterday three well-
known characters were brought from Mary-la-Bonne
watch-house by Fellows, the night-constable, who
charged them with being reputed thieves and disor-
derly. It appeared that the prisoners were on the
sneak on Monday night, and creating a disturbance
and kicking up a breeze in Oxford-street, until at
length several watchmen interfered for the purposi
of " starting the coves," when a row ensued, and the
watchmen received several severe bruises ; the pri-
soners were finally overpowered and lodged in the
watch house.-They were committed as reputed thieves.
A watchman belonging to Mary-Li-Bonne was
charged under the following circumstances:—lt ap-
peared that, on Friday last, the prisoner went to the
house of a Gentleman residing in Portland-place, and
said that he was the watchman of the beat, and caine
for his Christmas-box ; the servant who answered the
door told him to see the butler, which he did ; and,
he, not having any silver, gave the pi ironer a sove-
reign to get change, which the honest guardian took
but did not return again. The butler thin caused him
to be apprehended. The prisoner denied the charge,
said he was not the person, and could bring evidence
that he was in Chelsea at the time. Witnesses were
called to prove an alibi, but failed, and gave such
confused and contradictory accounts as to be madly
unworthy of belief.—He was fully committed.
HarroN-GAnnarat.—Yesterday 7'. Norris, a watch-
c4e-maker, in the employ of Mr. T. Richards, of,
Bridgewater-square, was charged w ith stealing five
tools, called draw-plates, the property of his master.
The prisoner had worked seven years for the com-
plainant, during which time he bore a most exem-
plary character, and left a part of his earnings in his
master's hands until it amounted to £l7O, £1:10 of
which he drew for the purpose of furnishing a home
for himself in Royston-street, intewding to go into bu-
siness upon his own account. Mr. Richards, it ap-
Tears, employs twenty men, and from his complaining
that some of them were purloining pint of the.tools,
which were, very expensive, the men were deter-
mined to find out the thief, and on learning chit the

prisoner was buying and borrowing tools for the pot
pose of going into busilless, suspicion fell upon him.
Ou Saturday last, when he wedt home to tea, some
of the men found five-of the draw-plates concealed,
as they stated, on a shelf under his work; on which
one of the men (E. Bandy) put a private mark, in
the presence of the other men, and replaced there,
the prisoner came back and worked the remainder of
the evening, and after he was gone the tools were
missed, and the workmen informed Mr. Richards of
the fact; her in consequence, had theprisoner's house
searched, when the five tools were found, but nothin,
else which the complainant could claim. The office'.
took' away the five draw-plates, and the prisoner
custody. The prisoner, in defence; stated that ryne
of the tools was left eighteen months before by a
man who worked thew, and who owed him 17s. and
that he had ever since claimed that tool as his .pro.
perty. This fact was admitted by all the werkmen.
He further stated that another of Mr. Riclrards's men,
who had been a master himself, lent him the othe.
four. On examination it appeared that three nut 4
the four were lent him, but that the fointh proved to
be Mr. Richards's, which lie took in mistake, ie.lri;:g
a similar one, of equal value, behind. The 11a6,,.
trate stated that no blame could attach to Mr. RH,.
aids, for, that before investigation, it had a bi.v.lr
appearance; but he was happy to say that the pn,
soner's character was unsullied, and he was cdt:se.
quently discharged.
QUEEN-StWARE.—Mary Scott was charged with
stealing a watch, with two gold seals and keys. She,
with a man of the name of Johnson, had taken lode
ings at Mr. Watkins', in George-street, Chtl,-a, oa
Monday night, representing herself to be Jthi,o,s,
wife. They sat down in the parlour till nearly eievel
o'clock, when Mrs. Watkins was celled to the do. r.
While there, Johrr.on went out, and on returning to
the parlour, Mts. Watkins missed the watch, and
gave the prisoner into custody. Nothing was fou;,d
on her. Ihe ptisoner, in defence, said, she met
Son on that day, who seemed to have plenty of money,
and promised to marry her, and ptocuied her t::‘:
lodging till matters sere arranged. She persisted
in her innocence.—The prisoner was remanded.

SUDDEN DEATHS —Last night, a Coroner's Inquest
was held at the Red Lien, iii Shoe-lane, Holb rn, ca
the body of Jou s BARRON, Esq. par ner in the hone
of Messrs. Vaa and Co. bankers, in Lombard-street.
Gaulten said he saw a Gentlemin passirl
along Shoe-lane, about nine o'clock on Al.iadaT
evening—when just opposite to St. Andrew's Chine:,
he fell backwards : witness, with the assistance of
others, raised him. He then seemed lifeless ; some
water was sprinkled on him, but he did not recover.
Witness assisted in carrying him to the watch-hoiss,
when a medical man opened a vein, but no b.o-d
came, and he was conveyed a corpse to the
house. Other witnesses deposed to the same effect,
and added, that the deceased never spoke. Mr. Wil-
son, a medical Gentleman who had attended Mr. Bar-
ron, stated, that the dece used, for some tin e before
death, had laboured under a severe diarrhce, or flax.
He had considerably recovered ; but, as was u-ual
with many persons before the fatal attack came, tLey
'Would be much better. There was a fullness and ci:.
culation of the blood inclined to the head, f. out which
witness had no hesitation in saying this was the cane
of his death, which must have been as sudden as if
he had been shot through the head. When wityesa
last saw !aim, his pulse was quite calm, and he seemed
in better health than usual. He had no doubt .:•e
cause of his death was a fit of apoplexy. Mr. Slim.
TON observed, there could be no doubt the decea ed
died a natural death from apoplexy, or other disorer.
Here a Gentleman stated, that he was in company
with the deceased at his own house, where they drank
tea, after which the deceased went out to take .1 walk:
this was a quarter of an hour before his deatli.--Vet-
dict—Tfiat the deceased died 61l the Visitation (y. Gcn.
An Inquisition was held at the Horse Shoe, Lit.le
George-street, Westminster, on Monday night, befoie
Mr. limos, Coroner, on the body of Mrs. 1311m:111A
Ayles, a widow, of respectable family, who died, in
the opinion of the • respectable Jury that sat on cite
body, from the want of timely medical assistance.—
The deceased resided in Little George-street, We.:-
minster. On Saturday night last, she having been
on a visit, was taken ill very suddenly on her way
home; she fell to the ground, and the patrol, with
some of the neighbours, conveyed her home. Seve-
ral persons were dispatched for medical as,istance,
and although three different medical men were urged
to come to bleed the deceased, yet not one of the..
would stir unless he was first paid for his trouble.—
One surgeon sent some powders, but they could be
of no service to a person- in a fit. .The second sur-
geon said he was busy, and could not attend ; and
the last person applied to asked the Gentleman who
desired him to attend, if he should be paid by the
friends of the deceased if she died ?--who her friends
were ?—whether they could pay? and a great num-
ber of otlaer such questions; and upon the ~entiem-
ai) being unable to give him the information re-
quired, and declining to become responsible for tfe
payment himself, the surgeon refused to attend at:
deceased at all. The above facts were sworn to be-
fore the Jury ; and a number of witnesses proved :bat
no medical man came at all, and that the deceased,
in their opinion, died for want of medical assistance.
The CORONER addressed the Jury, and regretted vet y
much that the different surgeons who were applied
to should have refused to attend the dying ss .man.
The witnesses were of opinion, and they (the Jur%)
might be of the same opinion also, that if the de-
ceased had received timely assistance she might have
been recovered.—Foreman, " That is our opinion."
Conosea, " But, Gentlemen, that is only a matter
of opinion; your most safe verdict, for on per ohs
you cannot say she died for want of surgical assist-
ance, will be, that she died by the visitation of Goo.'
After A long discussion that verdict was taken. -

luta fC, wno IS KIIOWU IU UM MaMMUS AS `• lAI
natchen"having learned that one of them was al
.1i liras's bulk in Neusgate-madiet, went thither