Star.
London, England, 1812-05-21 00:00:00

OLD BdlL4r.

Tuesday Jamu Donoghue we brought to the bar,
indicted for haling committed a highway robbery;
on the person of James Hoskins.
The prosecutor said he was apprentice to Mr:
Smith, a boot-maker, in Oxford-road. On the 25th
of March last, about the twilight, he was dispaiebed
-by his master with a pair of boots to Mr. Mason, a
Gentleman of the law,. and resident at that time in
Sprinted's Inn. When he proceeded a few .doors
from his master's shop, a young man, who was ;
stranger came .upand inquired the way to Chancery.:
lane ? the witness said he was going that way, and
he would spew hint. When they reached Wild-street,
the stranger enquired if the witness Fame • from Mr.
Smith's ? he answered yes, upon which 'the stranger
said—"• Oh I I know him very well, I live next door
to him at the linen-draper's, and I am going to a
linen-draper's in Chancery-lane." The stranger then
-. left him, and went up Drury-lane. When he arrived
_at the end or Great Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
the prisoner at the bar carol up, and accosted the wit-
-miss with--" Oh my tad, are you not going to Mr.
Mason's se;th these boots ?" The witness answered
en The prisoner then, with much composure, took
the boots off his arm, and said that he was apprentice
,to Mr. Mason, and would save the witness the tkottble
- going nut of his way With thou. The witness re.
plied, that he was going to the Surrey Theatre upon ,
business, and would call and see the taints delivered,
as vies his duty. The prison* and he then walked
on together until they came too Mrs Mason's house,
And had proceeded half way Op the stairs, when the
prisoner, who was foretnost, turned round and desired
. the prisoner to come no farther, for lie would put in
• the boots to Mr. Masofi, ale lodged in the adjoining
•
room. The witness, howeier, perlisted in presenting
the boots hinsself, and tbe prisoner endeavoured to
rutli down stairs with them ; a scuffle ensued, during
• .which the witness got his boots again. He then gave
the witness a push, jumped past him, and ran down
Chanceo-lane I the witness followed, but could not
overtake him. A fortnight after be met the pr soner
in Crown-court, when he accused him of the fact ;
the prisoner asserted he was going to Mr. Mason's.
and desired the witness to accompany him.' In con-
sequence of she information uf the witness, his mastor
caused the prisoner to-be apprehended. •
. Tlie Jury dismitied the indictment for a highway
gabllwy, and returned a verdict f—Guilty of stealing.
&slit Price, a modest-looking girl, was found
...Gvilty of purloining goods to a considerable amount,
from, her master's house, near-Covent-garden.
The-presecutor very humanely interceded with the
tote!: her behalf, and said that she had come to
" his louse with an.untainted character ; from all the
Circuliitances of the case, he could assure the Court,
. that her mother had seduced her from the,Paths of
• honesty. The prosecutor was a Jew, and his name
was Abraham.
• Pump Cidliatt was brought to the bar, having
been detained to receive the opinion of the Court
Upon,his case since the pteceding Sessions.
• The RECORDER said, that thp prisoner had been
brought up to the bar timing the last Sessions, bef ore
Itaron Wend, upon an indictment for forgery. It
appeared that he had contrived to imitate the patent
stamp affixed upon boxes of certain medicines, that
that part which described the amount of the duty,
had been cut out, and a painr artfully inserted de-
scriptive of the happy qualities of the medicine. It I,
had been argued on the part of the prisoner, that the
reA.-40,1ance. of the two labels was not at all obvious,
uhich circurnstancejuade it plaia that the whele was
not contrived for thepurposes of deception.; alio, that
she indictment had not manifested accurately, nor
otherwise, the nature of the imitation.
On ale cuter hand it had been argued, that tie
' present imitation was a false making of all that was
necessary.to be counterfeited,- and therefore was a
forgery, anal that a description of the.fergery was not
at all necessary in the eye of the law.
The REcORDeR iotimated, that the Court had over-
- ruled both those objections, and. therefore the priso-.
ner was: to be considered as Guilty of Forgery.
. George Howard had also been detained by'the Court
since last Si ttings,for the purpose o(giving their opi-
4esislAnpou the objections made against_ the propriety
of convicting him.
. • Hehad been tried for stealing two iiiith.ootesOra.:
tote .40.eacb, in the dwelling-house of :Mr.-limb.
and citteiions aroib bej,weem theCOunsel for the pri-
soner i
n and prosecution, whether helad committed a
fraud ur a larelay.
The RECORDZR *said, that the taking if 'the two
notes from the drawer, as was proved by the evidence,
constituled larceny in a dwelling-house, and the false
-entry of credit which he had made, was only a err-
' .eumstance contrived to cover the theft, and was there-
, "fore employed by the Counsel merely ge a proof of
4t. ;the other. The Judges' were Oereforeofopinion, that
,she prisoner was Guilty tb'the extent of the charge.
Saone day the Sessions eutiodt when sentence of