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London, England, 1822-04-19 00:00:00

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the workshop he hid bientdlf, and saw the prisoner
walk-in and steal the inoo,l,—(ildig.f.
Job Flea was indicted fur stealing a gold pin, the
property of G. Flack, •and a watch, the property of
G. Tomlinson. in the dwelling-house of the former.
. Mr. Flack is Secretary to the Russell Institution.—
The prisoner's father was employed to work at the,
Institution, and the prisoner was engaged under his
father. The watch and pin were stolen from one of
the rooms in the Institution ; add a pasinbroker at
Somers Town proved that the watch was pledged
with him by a lad like the prisoner.
J. Lawler' a plasterer's labourer, deposed, that he
sold the pin for the prisoner, but refused to pledge
the watch for him, ai he did not think he had come
honestly by it. The prisoner admitted that he had
not, and said he got it out of a house in Great Co-
ram-street, where he was at work..
The prisoner was found Guilty of stealjng, but not
in the direlling-house, the same not being properly
described in the indictment. '
Henry Rickards and' John Francis were indicted
for stealing 17 planes, the property of Isaac Darby,,,
Wm. Curphay, and John Sims.
The case was clearly brought hom-e .to. the pri-
soners by a great mass of evidence, and the Jury
found them Guilty.
The following were also convicted of felony, vas.—Richard
Pearson, aged 15, for stealing 56 lbs. of rope-yarn, &c. John
Crewys, aged 40, for stealing 30 lbs. of lead ; Mary Oliver, aged
39, for stealing a leg of pork; Wm. Williams, aged 22, for steal-
ing a carpet ; Thomas Cano, aged 43, fur steeling six pair of
brass hinges • James Clarke, aged 27, and Win. Morgan, aged
22, for stealing a diver spoon ; James Buckley,. aged 27, and
Gottlieb Marcus Levi, aged 19, for staling 180 sal-skins; Jails
Truman, aged 34, for stealing 14 yards of satin; James Dodds,
aged 24, for stealing two pair of silver tongs; and George Mel-4
nth, aged Ilk for stealing a. handkerchief.
, Richard Smith, a sweep, aged 17, was capitally in-
dicted for cutting and stabbing Elias Duke.
The parties were drinking together at a public-
house, and a dispute arising between them, the pro-
secutor struck the prisoner. They were parted b;
their friends, but they continued squabbling for about
ten minutes, when the prisoner struck the prosecutor
a violent blow on the thigh, and inflicted a deep
wound with a knife which he had in his hand. The
prosecutor admitted that there was no cessation of
the squabble from its commencement up to the m•-
ment that the wound was inflicted in his thigh.
Mr. Justice BURROUGH, upon this evidence, di-
rected the Jury to acquit the
.prisoner ; observing,
that in order to produce a conviction, under this Act
of Parliament, the proof must be such as; in case
death had been the consequence of the wouns, would
have made the crime that of murder. In his opinion,
had death ensued here, the crime would have been
manslaughter only.—Acquilted.
Ann Smith was indicted for stealing two sovereigns,
the property of Joseph Woods.
The prosecutor, a Chelsea pensioner, was returning
from receiving his pension, when he met the prisoner,
and they drank together ' • they then went to buy
some bacon and eggs, and she prevailed upon him to
treat her with a new bonnet. He then acdompanied
her home, «here in about ten minutes, as he swore,
she picked his pocket of two sovereigns and decamped.
The prisoner admitted that he had been drinking a
little bit!— Not Guilty.
John Walker was indicted for breaking into the
house of George A. Gazeley, with intent to steal. •
The prosecutor lives in Great Newport-street. On
the evening of the 19th ult. the prosecutor's shopman
was going out, when he saw the prisoner open the
private door. The shopman asked him whom he
wanted ? He said he came to measure the shopman
for a pair of shoes, but the witness was not the man.
Prisoner stood on the threshold of the door, but no
part of his body was inside the house.—Net Guilty.
Mr. Justice Boanouott advised the prisoner to be
on his guard in future, for he had been overheard
planning the robbery, and it was only froth the ab-
sence of that witness that he had been acquitted.
The following were also acquitted :—John Haydon, aged 28,
of house-breaking ; Thomas Mash, aged 21, of stealing a watch;
John Bigland, aged 29, of stealing eight pounds of lead; and
John Green, aged 20, of stealing two pair of silver tongs.

EmuTton.—Saturday last, Charles Taylor, con-
victed of coining, was executed in front of Stafford
County Jail. From the time of his commitment ht
never entertained any expectation of escaping the pu-
nishment awarded by the law for a crime so injurious
to society. Before trial he avoided the company of
the other prisoners and passed his time in reading
and praying, in which he was assisted by the County
Chaplain, with unwearied assiduity. After condemna-
tion. he was calm, and resigned to his fate, though
at times he wept on account of his family, consisting
of a wife and eight children, the youngest only a
month old. His wife visited him on Thursday morn-
ing, having the infant in her arms. The meeting was
one of the most heart-rending description: he was so
much affected that he fainted, and was strongly con-
vulsed. The poor woman saw him again on Friday,
for the last time; and in this trying scene his forti-
tude did not forsake him. The night previous to his
execution, he slept from ten to twelve o'clock, and
employed the remainder of his time in fervent prayer;
he avowed that he felt strong confidence in the mercy
of GOD, and had hopes that his many transgressions
would be pardoned. Soon after seven o'clock on Sa-
turday morning the Sacrament was administered to
'him; after which he was permitted to take leave of
his brother John, for whose fate he had shewn a na-
, tp.ral anxiety, by declaring on the trial his brother's
I innocence, though he did-not deny his own guilt.—
He ascended the drop precisely at eight o'clock, and
while the executioner .adjusted the halter, &c. he
prayed with. the Chap4in most devoutly, shedding
tears freely, but appearing to be very collectei. In
about six minutes after eiglit:the drop fell being a
stout, muscular man, he seemed to suffer much, but
in seven minutes life appeared to be extinct. After
hanging the usual time, his body was cut down and
delivered .to his friends (who had brought a coffin and
a one-horse cart), to be interred at Aldridge. The
unfortunate man. was 96 years of age, a native of
Bmomsgtove,'and bad resided at Aldridge aloft
five years; he was osteusibly a small farmer,
and carrier.

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