Star.
London, England, 1830-10-29 00:00:00

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These sessions commenced this morning, before the Right lion. the
LORD 31AVOR will the other City Authorities; who are usually present
on such occasions.
The presiding Judges are Mr. Justice Sir ALLAN PARK and Mr.
Baron Osunow.
Caroline Maurice, aged 22, ass indicted for stealing several silk
dresses, value 301. from the dwelling-house of Lewis Levi, the property
of John Newry.
The prisoner, although cautioned by the Court, pleaded Guilty.
Sentence cf death was then recorded against her.
WsMars Iralc.s. wilt -.vas indicted for breaking and entering the
dwelling house of Join Pollard, and stealing therefrom two pictures,
end other property, also pleaded guilty, and had sentence of death re-
corded against him.
leached Oddey, aged 26, and it il:iaas Oddey, her husband, and a
corporal in the Coldstream Guards, were indicted, the former for steal.
ing, and the latter for receiving the same, knowing them to be
stolen, 1801. in bank neves and other articles, the property of Mary
R'hitfield.
William Ballard. a police-officer, mated that in consequence of in.
formation he had received, be proceeded to the lodgings of the female
prisoner, and on searching her box, found several bank note.:, upon
which he took her and her husband into custody.
Mary Whitfield, the prosecutrix. stated that she was a dress-maker,
and resided at No. 73, Regent's-quadrant. The female prisoner had
lived in her service in the months of May and June last. Her name
was at that tine Sawyer. She left her place fur the purpose of getting
married. The prisoner called at witness's house on the 17th of Sept.
for a ckaractez, and immediately after she had left, the notes were missed.
They had been deposited in a small box under a dressing-table in a roam
in which the prisoner stopped while she retrained.
The notes found on the prisoner were braved to be part of those lost
by Miss Whiifield.
The female prisoner denied the robbery, but stated that she found a
roll of notes on the proaecutrix's stairs.
The husband denied all participation in the robbery. He was at
Windsor at the time.
Mr. JOltiCe• ALLAN PARC having summed up the evidence, the
Jury found the female prisoner Guilty, and acquitted the husband.
Millard Phillips was indicted for altering a receipt for money, with
intent to defraud Messrs. Wm. Houghton, Flinwn, and Co.
This case bas been so recently before the public in the police re-
poets, as to render a short abstract only of the evidence necessary.
The prisoner, it appeared, purchased a quantity of hams from Messrs.,
Flinton and Co. provision agents, in Berwick-street, Soho, and or.
deed a parcel of the hams to be sent to his residence in Ship-yard,
Temple-bar, with an understanding that they were to be paid for on
delivery. Wizen sue hams were delivered by a man named Stone.
a porter in the prosecutor's employ, the prisoner meted that
he had paid the prosecutor 51. on account of the bill, and then
tendered the porter fin. 6d. the balance of the amount, tor which
the porter gave a receipt. In this receipt the figure b was, it
it was alleged, subsequently introduced by the prisoner after it had
been delivered to him by Stone, and thus it was converted into a receipt
for the suns of 51. 6s. 6d. although really given for only 6s. 6d. The
prosecutor, on applying for the amount of his account, was told that it
had been already paid, and the fraudulent receipt produced in proof of
the fact.
The prisoner protested his innocence, and called his shop-toy, a lad
named Balls, who swore that the whole of the receipt, including the
figure b, was written by Stone, the porter, in his presence.
Mr. Hughes, an attorney, was called to the prisoner's character. He
stated that he had employed the prisoner often, and had never been
cheated by him.
Mr. Justice Paix—He would be a clever fellow, indeed, who could
cheat an attorney. (Laughter.)
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice Psaz observed, that the offence of the prisoner had been
greatly aggravated by his calling the boy, Balls, who, undoubtedly, had
not spoken the truth. The prisoner's life would not he endangered by
the conviction, but he might expect to leave this country for life.
NEW COURT. _

Dudley Alkly (of the firm of Green and Allely, gun-makers,) was
indicted for stealing, in the month of October, 1829, a percussion pis.
tal, the property of Thomas Smith, a gunmaker, in Portland-street,
Cavendish.aquare, in whore employ the prisoner then was as foreman.
The prosecutor stated, that in the autumn of last year his shop
was robbed of a number of pistols, among which was the one charged
in this indictment. In February last the prisoner opened a shop near to
that of the prosecutor. In March last a medical man named Langley,
called upon witness, and informed him that he had seen a pistol on the
primer, which caused an inquiry to be instituted, and lod to this pro-
)
see ut ion.
The prisoner, in his deface, said the prosecutor was actuated by a
spiteful feeling, because he had become a rival in business.

Mr. Walker, a respectable gentleman, living in Pentonville, stated
that the prosecutor told him he was determined to get the prisoner out
of his shop, and if this indictment would not effect it, he would prefer
three or four more, and he could find as many witnesses to support them
as he could balf-crowns.
The Jury hereupon stopped the case, and immediately acquitted the
prisoner, believing that the prosecutor was actuated by a vindictive
feeling.
(Before the COMMON SZIJIANT and a Middlesex Jury.)
Maria New was indicted for stealing a silver spoon, the property of
Mr. John Michael GoodhalL
The prosecutor stated that he is the landlord of the Monster public-
house at Pimlico, and the prisoner had been in frequently at his house'
to visit her daughter, who was his occasional servant ; but whether she
was there on the day in question he could not tell.
A Pawnbroker produced the spoon which had been pledged by the
prisoner.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
George Davis was indicted for feloniously stealing 20s. the property of
Mr. Joseph Balding, to whom he was a aervanc
The prosecutadeposed, that he is a licensed victualler, and keeps
the Greencoat Boy, in Tothill-fields. The prisoner had been his ser-
vant for four or five years, down to August last, when he absconded with
the money named in the indictment. Witness was in the habit of send-
ing a pound's worth of change daily to a Mrs. Young's, and he did so
on the din question ; he was not apprehended for a month after he
absconded; down to this offence he bore a good character.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but strongly recommended the
prisoner to mercy, on account of' his previous good character.
George Campbell. Clements was indicted for stealing thirteen sove-
reigns and four half sovereigns, the property of Francis Harrison, his
employer.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty.
Catherine Mack was indicted for stealing a lace collar and other Wl-
des of dress, the property of Mrs. C. Bowles Tripp. Verdict Guilty.

(Before Mr. Sergeant Ansnix.)
Peter Bradley, an urchin 12 years of age, was indicted for stealing a
pocket-book, containing money, from the person of Thos. Priaeman.
The theft was clearly proved against the prisoner, by the identifica-
tion of the prosecutor.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character, but the learned
Judge appearing to know it better than they did, told one of them be
had disgraced himself.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant Aliment said he was a very bad boy, and young as he
was the Court must transport him for seven years.
The following prisoners pleaded Guilty to charges of felony, vie.—
Edw. Chanhill, fox stealing a musical instrument; Charles Gurr, for
embezzlement ; Eliza Smith, for stealing apparel ; Wm IViditlet, for
stealing a bridle, and Thomas Bryant for robbing his master.
The following were tried and convicted of Monies, viz.—
Susan Sloane, Mary Wakeling, John Carter, Maria New, John
Jones, George Davis, George Clements, Catherine Mack, W.
Walker, Joseph Slipper (two indictments), Eliza Williams, and George
Andrews.

The following were acquitted, viz.—Mary Tilly, W. Leach, Abra-
ham Green, Mary Rudd, Sarah Wakeling, Charles Bailey, William
Davis, Samuel Morter, Henry Ambrose Harvey, John Pearson, and
Thomas Adaaut.

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