Star.
London, England, 1801-01-15 00:00:00

oLn BAILEY:

irdlerday, the Seaions commenced at the. Old
Bailey, before the Right Hun. Sir Wl4. St...mass,
Lord Mayor, Mr. Baron' 11.014riONI, Mr. Jullice
LAiral•NCI, Mr. fltaiCt GRAHAM, Mr. ItIicORDER,
Ace. when twelve paifoners were tried, one of whom
was capitally conviCted, viz.
Wiliam Gre/i, for attaidting, on the gth Decem-
ber laft, on the King's -Highway, Mr. W. Allen
'l'hackthwaite, putting him in fear, and taking
from his perfon a metal watch, with a chain, feat
mad key, and alfu a guinea and a half; and a (even
Odlling piece in gold, and time filver, his property
and monies.
appiared that the Profecutor, Mr. Mack-
• thwaite, and his Mend, a Mr. Clifford, were eom-
• ing to town on the Aeon mad, in a fingh horfe
chalk, about fix o'clock in the everting, they were
'get near the three-mile ftone, by the Prifoner who
was mounted. He rode up to tficm, and caught
hold of the reins, then got near the fade 'of the
• chifife, and• Otfenting a pittol,' demanded their
money, wat, &e. The refnit of this applica-
tion, daring Which fame words pared between the
CO. and reveral threats from the Prifoner,was,
'the Preifeeator ieloaandy pitted \frith the
- • &t forth in the la and bit friend
with what 'money he bad about him.. It being
_Very dark at the time, they could not obferve the
face or perfon of the Prifoner, or the kind of horfe
on which he rode, fulficiently clofe, fo as to be
able fatidadorily to identify either in Court.—
However, they fhortly after gave information of
the affair to a Bow-Rivet Patrole, whom they fell
in with, and pojpted out the road which the high-
wayman had taken; in confequence of which he
was apprehended at twelve o'clock that night, at
the Hammerfmith Turnpike, where the party were
rft led to fufpea him by his refuting to give any
account from whence he came, doe. After fecur-
ing him, they (earched his pockets, and found
therein the Profecutor's watch, one piftol, nine
guineas and a half in gold, and fome hirer.
The watch being produced in Court, was fatis-
fadorily identified by Mr. Thacktbwaite, and the
piftol was that kind of one which the Gentlemen
defcribed to have been prefented to them by the
Pr ifoner.
William Clifford corroborated the evidence of

the laR witnefs, adding that the money he gave
him was two half-guineas, and one or two fix-
penees in filver ; that he did not give hint his
watch, and that the man who robbed him (hook
bands with him on his going away, and (aid—
" PVC a wife aid family, d—d if I can Rand it
'et! longer."
They went then to the White Horfe on the
Afton Road, where they mentioned the robbery
to tome Bow-greet officers 'who arrived a little
after theth there, and they proceeded in purfuit of
the highwaymen.
Griffiths, one of the Bow-greet patrole, laid,
that on the evening in queßion, he, and five of his
comrades, went to the houfe, where they met the
two left witnelfes. He and another went to Ham-1
inerfinith turnpike, where they remained till z a
.'clock that night ; a little after twelve, a man on
borfehark came up to the gate, and the Witnefs
went out of the toll-houfe to receive the toll ; but
when the man anted how much it was, he could
not tell ; he went, however, and Seized the right
hand pocket of this man, who was the prifoner,
and found there was a piflol in it : and then he
feized him by the collar, and pulled him down
from the houfe. He took him into the toll-houfe,
and on fearching him, found Mr. Thackthwaite's
watch in his right-hand waillcoat pocket, and in
the left-hind pocket another watch, and about Isl.,
in money.
The watch was pofitively (worn to, but the two
Gentlemen who were robbed could (wear to no-
thing elle, not even to the tone of the man's voice.
The Prifoner, in his defence, laid, he had been
employed in the (tables of an inn at Hounflow ;
that on the evening in queßion, he went into a
privy belonging to the inn-yard, and there found
the pißol and the watch wrapped-up in a handker-
chief.
He then called a man named John Moody, who
appeared to be an hoftler at an inn, and who (wore,
that about half pall eight o'clock on the night in
queßion, the Prifoner brought him to take a pint
of beer, and !hewed him the pißol and watch,
which he (aid he had found a little before ; he Paid
betide, that he had borrowed a boric to go to
London to look after a pl.tce. The witnefs advif-
ed him to throw away the piftol and watch diced-
ly ; but the other replied, that he would not, as
he expeCted to make fomething of them.
No other witneffes appeared for the prifoner.
Mr. Baron Gaan*M, who tried the cafe, made
a vatiety of pertinent and fhrewd remarks thereon,
and was of opinion, the perfonal identity was not
clearly eAablifhed by the Prolocutor; that there'
was a chain of circtonftantial evidence fufficiently
ftronF to involve the Prifoncr. In this opinion
the Jetry manifeßed their coiniii.lence by finding a
'raffia of—Gaily--/Nrih.
Seven were coisviBed of felony, viz.
yobs Haasinii, for Reeling a very large quantity
b 6 goods in the perffsthery trench Of bufinefs, the
protetty of Mr. Richitrd Jones, mannfafturcr and
Wholefale trade( pet&iitery, at Shoreditch, with
whom the Prifoner had been &main and foreman
in that branch of the Trade wine% relates to the ;
main& teory of hard (naps but he had nothing to
do rith any part of the perfumery. Although ,
the value of the goods was very great, yet the
Prifoncr was indi&ed only for limply ftealing the
goods, without Rating that they were Rolm out
of the dwelling-houfe.
It appeared, by the evidence of Mr. Joness that.,
his maillifaetniy is in Shoteditch ; that the Pri-
• loner lived with hint in the capacitvof his foreman
in the hard-f..ap branet, but that in confequence
of fufpicions lie entertained, he discharged the Pri-
loner in November-Idt, and afterwards, in con-
fequence of the fame Infpiciott, he went in com-
pany with a Bow-greet officer of the name of
Harper, to the Prifinter's lodgings, which were
at No 3, New-lan Yard, for Or porPofx of Catch-

to Them. There lodgings were within 3o yards
tht Profecutor's manufaftory. The profecutor
and Harper told the Prifoner that a particular
circumftanee had happened, and they came to
(earth his lodgings. The Prifoner afked them if
they had a search warrant ? They fail they had
not. The Prifoner infifted they ihould not fearch
his lodgings without a warrant for that purpofe.
On which the profecutor went to the Public-office
fora warrant, leaving Harper in the prifoner'slodg-
legs. The Magiftrate,however, diiinot give the pro-
&cutor a warrant, but fent a verbal order for fearch-
ing the lodgings of • r Prifoner ; upon which
they were fearched, and in the Prifoncr's bed-room
were found tome of the various articles of pro-
perty Rated in the indiament. On (earthing the
perfoft of the Prifoner there were found in his
pocket two keys ; he was defined to tell what they
belonged to, which he refufed; but the witneffes
found means to difcover—that, in confequence of
which they went to a houfe in Rifdoll's-Build-
ings, where they found a large quantity of wafh-
ing-balls, in an untinilhed Rate, in a box of a faze
fit for containing one hundred weight of foap ;
it Was full; they found alfo a great many other
articles of perfumery to a great value, and among
them, a machine for polifhing wafhing-balls, which
was an inftrument never intended to be fold, and
was made in a peculiar manner, by order of the
profecotor, for the rife of his manufafture, and
which he knew perfealy well, it being a very re-
markable one. The Prifoner being charged with
having ftolen there articles from his mailer, Paid,
he had bought them of a man of the name of Bi-
fhop, who was a (muggier.
There articles being produced in Court, the pro-
fecutor fwore pofitively to the wash-ball polifhing
machine, to a great number of labels on feveral of
the articles of perfumery, and that he had loft all
thefe articles out of his (hop.
Samuel Harper, the conftable, (wore, that he
went with the Profecutor to the Prifoner's lodg-
ing, at No. 3, New-Inn-yard. He gave the fame
account as Mr. Jones had given, of-fearchingthe
Prifoner's lodgings, and ofthe goods found there,
and added, that while Mr. Jones was gone for a
Search-warrant, the Prifoner went into a back-
rcom and locked it, and the Witnefs faw through
the key-hale the Prifoner buiy in the room tying
up fomething, and be faw the Prifoner's body
half out of the window. Afterwards a blanket
was found in the cellar, which contained many
articles, the property of Mr. Jones, and which was
brought into the cellar from the outfide of the
window by the Prifoner's wife. •
It appeared afterwards that the hot& in Rif-
doll's-Buildings, of which the Prifoner had the
keys, and in which the property of Mr. Jones was
found, was let in Oftober lag to the Prifoner, and
that he had the poffeflion of it from that tune to
the time he was apprehended.
On behalf of the Prifoner one Witnefs of the
name of Elizabeth Sparks, who was the landlady
of the houfe where the Prifoner lodged, was call-
ed,afor the purpofe of proving that he was in the
courfe of rnanufaauring the waft-balls, ponta-
turns, &c. which were found in his poffeflion, but
the tendency of her evidence, as far as it went,
was rather againft the Prifoiwr than for him.
Several Witneffes appeared to his charaaer,
which the Learned Judge told the Jury was of no
use whatever, except when the cafe was doubtful.
This was an indiament which did not affe& the
Prifoncr's life, becaufe it was not fisted that the
Joods were Rolm in the dwelling-boufe. If the
ury believed the evidence, they would find the
Prifoner guilty; if they had any reason to doubt
it, they would acquit him. There was no quef-
tion bin the Verdift would be fuels as would be
fatisfaitory to the Justice of the Country.—Gaiky.
Corr for Rusting a metal watch, chain,
&c. the property of John Edmunds.
The profecntor is principal domeftic to a Gen-
tleman, refiding in Saliflury-ftreet Strand.—On
Saturday the a7th of December tail, he ordered
Tome meat home from Clare-market ; the prifoner,
who was a butcher's fervant, brought it home,
and took it into the kitchen. Some time before
this, Edmunds had depofited his watch upon the
mantle-piece in that apartment, and coming there
loon after the Prifoner bad brought the meat, he
miffed it ; his furpicions naturally fell upon the
Prifoner ; and taking an officer with him, he in-
flantly proceeded to market, where he aged fo
'as shortly to induce the Prifoner to acknowledge
that he had made free with the watch.—Under
evidence to this effeet the Jury were conftrained to
find the Prifoner—Gv4..
Martem Brunet and George Law on an indiament
charging them with having on the nth of Ofto-
ber lag Itolen from a flop-lhop in Old Gravel-lane,
two articles of wearing apparel about 15s. in va-
lue. The theft was dillinaly (worn to by the
perfons to whom the fhop belonged ; and the two
officers by whom the prifoners were feized, proved
that the articles were found on their perfons, at
the time they were apprehended.
The Priforseri in their defence pretended that
they had purchafed the articles from Jews, but
their Rory being corroborated by no attendant
circumftances, the 111.-y found them both Gray.
Philip GoodersorgA, for (leafing four bulhels of
wheat, the property of Jofeph Hoare.
The prifoner was the mailer of a barge, which
belonged to a Mr. Watkins, of London, and in
which a quantity of wheat was fent from London
to Wendover, configned to Mr. Hoare, and deli-
! vered, together with the barge, into the prifoncr's
I care. When this wheat arrived at Wendover, four
builds of it were found miffiag. The only evidence
againft the prifoner was that of a lad, named Mer-
chant, who had afted as his fervant in the barge.
lie tiiid, that after the barge had paired Chelfea
bridge, the prifoner took a (pare fack and filed
it, by taking a (mall quantity from each of the
other racks that were fall ; when the borir-
rived at a place called Harwood, on the Grand
junetion Canal, a man came up and took this fack
I fo filled from the prifoner. There N AS a woman
lion board the barge with the prifoner at the time off
this tranfaelinn. The witness did not tell the
iaf-
fair to Mr. Hoare, at Wendover, nor mention it
to any body cite until the barge had retuned to
London ; and then, aft= having had a quarrel

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with' the prifoner, he we* had gave infigeltlatitlet‘
againa him to Mr. Watkins. The•prifoaeraled
no witneffes.—Guilty. •
Pricy and Richard Mane, were capitally in-
dieted for the offence of highway robbery, in if-
faulting Jeeph di Silva, a negro led, and forcibly
taking from his per4bn 4 .}s-Nl. his Monies. •
It appeared that this was little more than an or-
dinary pack-pocket manceuvre, but rather vigor-
°ily coutinfied. The profccutor siefctibed hitufelf
to have been very ill and weak at the timC, to have
come up the morning of the firll of December fall,
from his fhip at Deptford, and at three o'clock the
fame afternoon to have received four guineas and
fixpence at the Counting•hook of MetWa. Haggett,
in Birchin-lane.—He wrapt up the money in a
pica of paper, and put it in the pocket of his
Jacket : he was fiercely three minutes out of the
houfe, when he defcribed the two prifoncrs to have
run up to him, and each to take bins forcibly' by
the arm, when the prifoner, Price, put his hand
into the pocket, and took out the money, with
which he maantly let off.—Hence the alum was
given, and. a clok purfuit commenced, and the
prifoners were fhortly overtaken, and in Price's
great coat pocket four guineas and a fixpence were
found look, thefe circumftances were all clearly
proved—the identity was incontrovertible, as one
of the witneffes, Mr. Walker, of Birchin-lane, had
them in fight the whole of the purfuit.
Mr. RECORDSR fummed up the evidence, end
clearly pointed out the difference between the kind
of force or coercion neceffary in the eye of the
Law to coaftitute the crime of highway robbery,
and that ufed ordinarily in the arect-huale' or
mode for alarming or confuting paffengers, in order
the more eafily 'to rifle their pockets.' From a clofe
review of the evidence and the el rcum fiances of the
cafe, the Jury would judge whether the charge,
to the capital extent laid in the indictment, had
been adequately proved.
After the charge was given, the prifoner, Big-
' gins, obtained leave to recite the fubfiance of a
written defence, which he prepared, and had till
then thought his Counfel could regularly deliver.
This was a very circumaaraial narrative, fo inge-
nioufly arranged, and delivered in fuch a way, as
apparently had a great aka with the Jury in his
favour. He folemnly avowed his innocence of the
charge, and of all knowledge whatever of his fel-
low prifoner, repeeting 'which latter point tome
corroborative evidence appeared from the teßimo-
ny of Mr. Walker. The Jury found Price Guilty
of fleeting only, but not taking with violent:
from the perfon, which obviates the capital part
of the charge. Biggins Not Guilty.
joieph Perry, for picking the pocket of Captain
George WalJh of a gold watch. The profecutor
had been to Drury-lane playhonfe, and had called
a coach at the corner of Bridges-areet ; be had a
lady with him, and had jua handed her in, and
was aepping in himfelf, when he felt his watch
pulled from his fob. There was no perfon near him
who could have taken it but the prifoner ; he im-
mediately caught hold of him, and accufed him of
the theft. The prifoner protetted he was millaken,
advifed him to be cautious how he imputed fuch a
charge to a gentleman, and expreffed his readinefs
to be fearched, obferving, that if he had taken his
watch, he mutt certainly have it about him.
Some of the Bow-greet police officers came up,
and, having heard the aceufation, took the prt-
foner into cußody, conveyed him to the watch-
houfe, and fcarched him, but the watch was not
found. The prifoner was next morning taken be-
fore Mr. FORD, the Magiftrate, who, after duly
weighing the evidence of the profecutor again
the prifoner's proteßations of innocence, was of
opinion thero was not fufficicnt ground for fub-
milting the matter to the inveaigation of a Jury,
Ind, accordingly, the prifoner was on the point of
being difcharged ; but, unfortunately for him, one
of the officeia was told by fomebody, that a
link-boy had been heard to fay, he had picked up
a watch which a 'gentleman had thrown away.—
The officers, finding the Magiftrate did not think
the evidence of the profecutor was fufficient, with-
out its being corroborated by that of the link-boy,
immediately proceeded in (arch of, and found
him, where he lay ferias, in a twopenny lodging
in Dyot-greet, St. Giles's. He was committed to
the fafe keeping of the Governor of Newgate, in
order that he might be forthcoming to throw a
light upon the bungles. Upon his being produced
as a witnefs, he declared that his name was Jokph
Caryll, that he faw the prifoner take the watch out
of the profecutor's fob, and throw it down in the
arca, by which the watch flew out of the cafe. He
law Mr. Width lay hold of the prifoner, and he
never loft fight of him. The pnfimer threw the
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watch out of his right hand behind him. 'l,lse u it-
nefs picked up the cafe, but it was immediately
thatched out of his band, he did not know by whom.
The prifoner, in his defence, argued the incnn-
fifiency of the evidence of the profecntor, contra ft-
ed with that of the link-boy ; if it were true, that
the profecutor, die moment he felt Ms watch go,
kind birn and pinioned his arms, as his evidence
Rated, then it was impoffilde he could have been
capable of the action of Hinging it away, as the
link-boy had defcribed • he declared his innocence,
and contended, that the link-boy had been tutored
by the officers to fwear in the manner he had done;
and, therefore, he confidently looked forward to
the acquittal of the Jury.
The Jury, however, did not confider the cafe in
the fame point of view, and found him—Gaihy.
Perry was ilreffed in rather ajlihjl manner, and
had completely the appearance of a laiby-leuarr.
Sarah Bird was indieled for Reeling four Ihifts,
three pillow-cafes, and other articles, the property
of Elizabeth Mary Ellis ; and Elizabeth flaniustid,
for receiving the fame, knowing them to be Rolen.
Mrs. Ellis keeps a circulating library in Beck-I
ingham-area, Fitzroy fquare. The Prifoncr,
Elizabeth Bird, was her fervent ; the 101 l revere.;
articles of property, anion the reR a Bank note
of 51. and a confiderable quantity of wearing ap-
parel front different parts of her boufe. (At this
period of Mrs. Ellis's teltimony the was kind with
violent hyfterics, and conveyed out of Court.)—
Having recovered, the reamed and reamed biz
evidenced—She flatei, that having fofpeitell Slur
• prifoner Bird, me accufed be: with asc thefts, and

the aelenowledgerihrr th:fittg the had gi.,a
them to her coulin (the other priloner.) •!'his
&Lon was in the prefence of a Mr. B.:;:klev,
(tared, that the began by pilfering tittl hair p.u.v.
der, fciirari, b-oolcv, tooth briithe‘, tea, fugat,
wine, chithes, napkins, apparel of various kiwi,
Tools, and innumerable tlaings,to a very confider-
able amount, at length a .w..te ana anal. note,
together with azainea, and at fovea al times !liver
from her till.

Here Mrs. Ellis underrent to very aria ex.arni.
nation and crofs.exaniination by Mr. ju;iicc
/LFNCV, by which it appeared that the had budi
promifed and threatened the Paifoner lYrd,
make ha tonFefs the crimes impnted to her, fiat
by telling her it wuuld be i)ct ter farbor to ce:irfs,
and then by telling her the woull be
the did not. ,

Mr. Jutlice i.awit INCH 'WSJ of opii ion,
other Judges coincided with hint, that is it it
I not clear that the confetlion WAS Frfe.:ily
tart', but as there was on the other hand ret.ligi
for believing that it was partly induced by hop:.
land Partly extorted by fear, it could not be fiat).
milted to the Jury as a ground cf the•Prifonet's
convietion. • Me therefore felt it his duty to is
thud the Jury to acquit the firll Prifoncr, and of
confequence the other alto, as her guilt was is.
volved in thkt of the frill, which not being prov-
ed, there was no ground of her being fond guilty.
The Jury accordingly found both the ilifeuers—
Net Gelb.