Star.
London, England, 1823-09-15 00:00:00

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'Sitntday, ffillignit Thomas tkaire • wavionYietill Of
letealing a handkerchief from the person of Henry
Stalhschsmid on the Ist of August, and .wirientenced
to be transported for life. .
John Wright, aged , 25, and William liming, 'sea
to, were indicted for feloniously entering the dwelling-
houge of Httir* Chamberlaine, on the night ;old* 17th'
of August, frith intent to steal therefrom. Wright had'
formerly been a Bow-street patrol, and was one of the
officers who accompanied Sir Richard Birnie to Cato..
street, where Thistlewood and his associates were ap-
prehended, mid received 1501. of the subscripticurraised
on that occasion.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the night
mentioned in tke indictment, a person who lived next
door to the prosecutor, who is a coachmaker, in (heat
Newport-street, Long-acre, was disturbed by a noise in'
the prosecutor's yard, and on getting up he saw a Man I
concealed behind a post. He have an alarm by calling
" Watch !" and the man ran off, but was stopped by a
watchman and brought back, when be proved to be
the prisoner Young. Some watchmen knocked at the
prosecutor's door, which was opened by the prisoner
Wright, who pretended to belong to the house, and di-
rected the watchmen to go down stairs, where he said
the thieves were concealed. The prosecutor came run-
ning down stairs with a light, which Wright, as if by
accident, knocked out of his hand, and extinguished.-r
Other lights, however, were procured, and the watch-
men immediately on seeing Wright, declared lie was a
notorious housebreaker. Wright said he was a Bow-
street. officer, and that he had entered the house for the
purpose of assisting in securing the thieves. The watch-
men knew this story to be false, and took him into cus-
tody. The prisoners denied the charge but called no
witnesses.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Peter Dillon, aged 49, a miserable-looking man, with
a wooden leg, was indicted for assaulting and robbing)
James Hogarth of eleven one pound notes, on the 10th
of April, 1821.
The prosecutor deposed, that on that day be met'
with a black woman in the street, and being a little in•
toxicated, he accompanied her to a house near tile Ca-
therine Wheel public-house, in Whitechapel, lie found
in the house a man with a wooden leg, and some wo-
men ; he began to be afraid, and attempted to leave the
house, upon which the man with the wooden leg threw
him down and took eleven one pound notes from his
pocket. The man then asked the women in the room
whether he should cut his (the prosecutor's) throat ?
They replied, yes; but instead of using a knife, the
man twisted the neckcloth of the prosecutor so tightly
round his throat as to deprive him of his senses. On
coming to himself, be found the man and women gone.
He could not identify the prisoner as the man who
robbed him.
Several witnesses proved that the prisoner lived with
a black woman.
The Learned Judge, under these circumstances, di-
rected the Jury to acquit the prisoner, which they ac-
cordingly did.
William Harrington was indicted for burglariously
entering the dwelling-house.of Pierre Brochard, with
intent to steal.
The prosecutor, on the night of the 27th of July,
went to the Opera, and remained until a late hour.—
He returned home at about three o'clock, and, on enter-
ing the house, the prisoner rushed out, and struck the
prosecutor a very violent blow. The prisoner, however,
was pursued by the watchman, and taken,
Mr. Justice BEST directed the Jury, upon this evi-
dence, to'acquit the prisoner ; .as the charge against the
prisoner. was only an attempt to steal, and the bur-
glary bad been totally disproved.
The prisoner was immediately acquitted.
William Norton, George King, and Francis Rawkg,
were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Charles Rugg, Esq. at. Muswell-hill, Hornsey,
in the day time, whilst persons were therein, and steal-
ing, on 'the 24th of June, a shawl and several articles
of plate.
The Jury convicted Norton and King of the larceny,
but found Rawley Not Guilty.
Samuel Hidden was indicted for stealing, on the Ist
of April, in the dwelling-house Of-Mary Charlton, of
No. 19, Stephen-street, Tottenham-Court-road, a griat
coat, value Si. 10s. the property of Edward Ashdown;l
his fellow-lodger. There was nothing of interest in the
details of the case, which was clearly proved, and the
prisoner was found Guilty—Death.
Samuel Thomas Fielding was. 'indicted for robbing
Thomas Lane of his watch,- on the King's highway, on
the Ist of August.
Mr. Lane, a builder, stated, that on the day in gum
tion, he was walking along the High-atreet, in Homan,
between eight and nine in theretening, when the Pri-
soner rushed out upon him frOM an alley, and giving
him a violent blow in the neck with one hand, snatched
his watch out of his fob with the other, and attempted
to run off ; but the prosecutor, who was only stunned,
kept hold of the prisoner until he was delivered to a
constable. The watch was pot recovered.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty—Death.
Robert Willis, a young man of very respectable ap-
pearance, was indicted for stealing two geld seals, the
property of William Gregory,
The prosecutor stated, that on the 23d of July, about
two o'clock in the morning, he was returning home
'through Smithfield, having drank rather freely, and
leaned for a short time against the rails ; a person be.
hind him touched him ; lie immediately turned round,
and saw the prisoner at the bar, who asked him some
questions in a hurried manner. Witness felt a pull at
his watch-chain, and missed two gold seals and a key—
'he instantly accused the prisoner of having taken them.
The prisoner ran off, and witness pursued and overtook
him. A watchman came up, and took the prisoner to
the watch-house.
The prisoner .read a 'siritten 'defence, to which he
'stated the evidence' that was afterwards given by his.
witnesses, and urged the improbability of his CQMITAte
sing such an offence from his previous good-char:tier..
George Tebbs, No. 3, Golden...lane, stated that the
prisoner spent the evening of the robbery at his house
business, and left ft &p an One o'clock.
Mrs. Mary Ann Smith, who keeps the Golden Key
public-house, in Tentei ',street, Moorfields, stated that the-
prosecutor on the night of the robbery, left her house in
a state of great intoxication about 12 o'clock. He was
also at her house the next morning, and drank porter
and spirits, and said he would not prosecute so respect-
able a .young man as the prisoner, only he was urged
to it by the officers. • •
Mr. Moira' Haine, Solicitor, stated, that.the prisoner
was in his employznent lin five years as ounfidenthdcicrk,
and, from the we:Bence of hi; conduct, iatit/ed himself