Star.
London, England, 1804-01-13 00:00:00

OLD' BAILEY $114510113.

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Yollarday 'Gene Smirk was indißed for forger/,
as various counts, having felonioufty uttered a bill
Of exchange. for id. 19s. ad. draws on Metres. Cox
tad Greenwood, Army Ageats,London. with intent
to deltoid Robert Kee, a boot =Au, on the parie
of
St. Mama Doses
. The only wins& called was Thos. Zee. This trial
wastobave taken place on Wedaefday, hut neither the
g=nter nor any winters appeared when called in
The prefecutor alledged, that be came to
the Court onWedaefday, about three o'clock, which
mesa coaaderahle time after his having been called;
that, after waitiag for= time, be went out, in order
to gat Come refreihment, and, in his way through
the crowd at the door, Come perfon picked his pocket
*lbis pocket book which contained the bill in quef.
• On his returning home at night. his wife told
him thin a boy had brought his pocket book, laying,
tbsa be gat it froas a gentleman who was acquainted
with the witoefs. On examining the pocket book,
be found that every thing was reamed but the forged
MU, which was the only voucher that could be pro.
dated of the prifoner's guilt. On being ftriftly
teirogated. relative to this tranfaSion, Ker declared
that ,be thought it was a fortunate event that the
bill was thus Toff, as the papa might, perhaps, be
reclaimed.
The Luau Cater Baton pointed out in ftrong
terms the dangerous tendency of fuch fentiments, and
the great injury which the-ertSecutor was doing to
fociety, and to the criminal juftice of the country. in
thus conniving at and encouraging the efcape a
perfon charged with fo dangerous and deftruftive a
crime as that of forgery. As the cafe flood, the Jury
could do no other than acquit the prifoner. The
condo& of Ker, however, bore every appearance
of the aloft foul eollufion.
The Jury accordingly acquitted the prifoner, and
the recognizance, of the parties who had failed to
appear were forfeited, and ordered to be fkriftly es-
In the evening. the fame perfon was again put to the
bar on a Gmilar charge, viz. that on the allth Oc-
tober, he, the laid George Smith, hinafelf a
Lieutenant in the 3d regiment or Guardi, did forge
an acceptance nf a Bill of Exchange, drawn on
Mars. Cox and Greenwood, Army Agents, Charing
Crory for the turn of Sol. drawn at at days
after date t--the indiilment laid in the parifh of St.
Dunitan in the Well.
John Pike, breeches matter, in Flcet-flreet, laid,
that he had received the 1)41 drawn by the prifoner,
and went to Mesire. 42.,s and Greenwood bit pay-
ment, they he was told, the bill was not of their ac-

ceptance.
Here William Rirkaby, clerk to Meff-s. Cox and
Greenwood, was called to pros,: the hand writing a
forgery, but he not appearing, the principal evi-
dence Filed, whtch was to petite the forgery, and
she RICOtDII direelcd tl.e jury to acquit the prifo-
ner. He was accordingly acquitted, Rickalry's re•
eognif ante forfeited, and the p. f,iler Stni:h was on
the point of being dircharged, when
Mr. Ail ins, who had aprehended li:tn, ilated that
be had /1:i-covered that t` e priinrer ha I been
&roned abort two years ago, but ha,.: been Nit j,,n.
ed. on condition of banning it WAS there-
fore his intention to prefer a 'iew bill him. 1.-1
leing found at large pres....us to the crpit;og of his
banitbrnent.
The prifonee was .tcenrt':ngl7 remanded.
Lertiame, a boy about elerzn years of
age, was charged with II eal:ng, on the 2cth cf De-
cember lA, a ballet cootaihing thirty lemons the
rnperty of Samuel Tille; , a green grocer, a Church-

knit.
IPiliktiel Tilley f.ei.re miXed tlicfe
at;cl t thzir the cuao:ly of
the priforict, I:y %lett

A Cool:fable of the penal', who chanted to be
paffing in Church llreet, met the prifoner and four
other boy's, tome of whom he recognized to be old
offenders. He law the pr ironer go into Mr. Tilley's
(hop, take up tome fruit, and runaway; he faw him
return a fecond time, and take up a balker with
lemons. On feting this, the witnefa entered the &op
and laid hold of the boy, jolt as he was making off.
The prifoner, on finding himfelf thus deteeled, threw
down the lemons in the dirt. The Deponent brought
him into the (hop, and &Pen got him into cußody.
The prifoner's mother patented a petition to the
Court, praying thathe might. on account of his youth,
be admitted into the Philadthropic School of Reform.
The Jury found him guilty of larceny ; and as it was
found on enquiry, that the Society alluded to could
not at prefent admit of any more individuals, the
prifoner was feutenced, after a fishable exhortation,
to be forthwith privately whipped in the gaol, and
difmiffed.
William Latham, 76errier Pruden, and jarat Pionforri,
were indieled for Healing a Diver watch, the property
of Hugh Jones, a publican, near Spital6elds.
The profecutor Hated, that the day after arifimas
day, which he called baxiir day, the prifoners came
into his houfe and had lone potter, which they paid
for. At eight o'clock at night they came with fosse
beef Reaks, which they had deeded for their (upper.
They (upped in the back kitchen ; after topper, lira-
den came to the bar, and had feveral glaffes of liquor,
which he diftributed among acquaintances of his who
Rood in the paffage, near the bar-door. The profe-
cutor Repped out of the bar into the tap room to get
the money for his liquor, and when be came back,
Pruden paid for it, and went away together with his
companions. He then miffed his watch which hung
over the fireplace in the bar. He went out in malign
of Pruden, and caught him in Turk-greet near Gra-
vel-lane. The officer who took the other prifoners
into cufiody,and,theofficer who fearched them at the
watch hook, Paid they could find nothing upon them,
but a watch was broughein, which had been thrown
out through the bars of the watch houfe, and there
was no other perfon except the prifoners near the
place at the time. Pruden was found Gritty, and the
other two were orgo.rittel
The prifoners were all young lads, not Above t 6.
The witneffrs called to (peak to Pruden's charaffift
faid he was a fat weaver.
Jones? the profecutor in this indiament, behaeok
hinifeif in a moil whimfical manner during his eft-
mination, appearing more defirous to (hew his imp
wit than to Rate his cafe, or *aver the <maim Pat
to him. This conduit! created foam inerrimeat .me
'the (peewees : but it obliged the Judge to threaten
die profeeuter with a committal to Nrimate,
did not behave himfelf decently. And it was with
Come reluaaote, the Judge, Mr. ufiice Lawesmea,
was afterwards induced to allow him his expences.
Sarah Olgiiry was indiaed for burglarioully break-
ing and entering die dwelling haute of John Hard-
ing, and healing therein three fdver tea fpoons and
other 'nicks, Es property.
It appeared that the profeentor, who is a carpets-
tee refiding in Half-moon-alley, Billuipfgntea, reins
was obliged to go to his work on the morning of ale
t4th of December. and left his wife and three chil-
dren at home. About five o'clock the fame evening
the Prifoner came, under pretence of procuring a
chairwoman from the recommendation of Mrs.
Harding's mother, to go to the Honfe of a Doftor
Taylor-in Hog= lane. After fame di(courfe upon the
fubjea, Mrs. Harding agreed to proceed immedi-
ately to her mother, who lived at Shoreditch, and
make the neceffary enquiry ; the prifoner went with
her as far as the bottom of Half-moon-alley, then
feparated ; about five minutes after, (he returned to
the Profeeutor's houfe, knocked at the door, and was
let in by a little girl about eleven years old, who,
with two other young children, were the only per-
Cons in the room. The Prifoner then Paid, the had
come back to flop for their mother, and afkcd how long
it would be before the was likely to return ? the girl
raid not long ; upon which the Prifoner pulled of
her bonnet, placed it in the drawers, and feated her-
felf by the fire, with her feet on the hove ; immedi-
ately after, the little girl heard the fpnon tingle in
the glafs that was (landing on the mantle piece; and
the Prifoner afked the child what her mother drank,
Tainting, as (he obterved, to get fomething to drink;
a bottle was given her, which the went away with,
and did not afterwards return. The other fpoons
were placed on the drawers in which the bad laid
her bonnet. The Profecutoes wife, on her return
from hieing her mother at Shoreditch, met the Pri-
toner, who laid (he was going to make more inquiry
about the chair-woman; but Mrs. Harding told her.
the need not make further application, as the had
jail returned from her mother, who did not know of
any perfon The er.uld recommend. She then went
home, found the Prifoner had been there during her
abfence. and miffed the property ; in confequence of
which, the went to the different pawnbrokers in the
neighbourhood, to find out if any fpoons like thine
the had 1011, had been pledged ; and after tome
(*arch, dikovered that the Prifoner had fold two of
them to a Mrs. Willis, who keeps a filverfrnith's (hop
in EaR Smithfield, and pawned the other at the (hop
of Mr. Davifon, in Bithopfgate-greet. She was at.
cording], taken into candy. The fpoons were pro-
duced in Court and (worn to. The Prifoner was alfo
identified, and after a charge from the Itreosota,
who Rated, that to enter a dwelling-houfe in the
night, with intent to commit a felony, was a capital
offence, the Jury found her Guilty—Death.
,lobe Nemo. and Walter Davit: were charged with
Dealing fifty-one pounds weight of folder, the pro.
relit' of Heirs. Liptrap, diffillers, in Whitechapel-
road.
It appeared, from the evidence, that the prifoners
were both in the employment of Meffrs. 0.41:4 and
Brov.a, pump makers, in 11o.indfditch, and that
they had been doing a j..b for ISl:dis. Liptrap. After
had knifhed their work, they were both detedt-
eJ, on !he stla of December, by a police officer, car-
rying off clandeitinely two large cakes of folder um
skr their coats. They were both (cited, about fix
o'clock :i the evening, in Baker's Row, when in the
art of knocking at a brazier's (hop. Ore of theni
made a flrong ref.:Rance, and threw away the folder.
Although it had been die gec.eral praCtice to leave
the folder at the rilk of Marrs. Liptrap, yet it was
not evident whether or not the prifoners knew th.,t
was the euflons, and that the rem—oiling folder
was ufi.ally weighed and paid 1.. r at Or_ rat: if ,d.
per pont.d, by fiers. Oaks and IStJMu, their cm.

picots. The prifoners alledged, that they wee.
cat rying home the folder to be weighed.-110
ifrtlmr M.Cinnis was ineNtied for ftealing sibs. of
indigo, the property of the Eaft India Company,

Dece-mbcr
Mr. Knit?, for the profecution, kid, that this
was a cafe fimilar to the preceding, except that the
goods Rolm, was indigo, and the warehoufe, from
whence they were taken, was in Seething-lane
Ephraim Shillitoe Paid he was ATlRant Elder in
the Company's Warehoufe, Seething-Lane; that on
the 13th Dec. about two o'clock, the nfital time for
difcharging the men, he fufpetted the Prifoner, and
had him fearched, when 31bs. of indigo were found
upon him in his coat pocket. He was taken to Bit.
liter-lane, and appearing much frightened, (Aid, that
he had that day loft half a guinea, and meant to diG
prife of the indio in order to make up his lobs.
John Rigby,The officer who took him into cußody,
produced the indigo. He was found Guilty.
yam Trek was indilted for Reeling a pair of Sheets,
two thins, a Shift, and other articles, the property of
Jofeph Richards, on the loth day of December left.
It appeared, from the evidence, that the prifoner was
only a lodger in the profecutor's houfe, and there-
fore her crimewas limited to larceny, as it could not
be alledged that flie broke into the houfe. The ar-
ticles were found at a pawnbroker's, who appeared
as a wieners, aftd proved his having received them
from the Prifolier. Verditt—Goiliy.
Margaret Carroll was charged with the capital of.
fence of telonioufly Reeling a pocket-book, contain-
ing one col note, two sl. notes, three al. and five
ti. notes, all of the Bank of England, the property
of William Davis, in the dwelliathoufe of Robert
Horford.
The circumflances 'bf this cafe were briefly as
follow—The Profecutor it appeared is one of the
kerne° of Mr. Horford, jeweller, No. 71, Oxford-
ftreet. The prifona had lived tome time as fervent
in the family; the pocket-book, containing the notes
laid in the indiament, was kept in a box n the Pro.
(motor's, which was depoated in a part of the honk
to which the litifow had.accifs. He miffed it on
the evening oT the tvth of December, which was
three or four days after the prifoner had quitted the
fervice of Mr. Hotford. He imagined he might have
101 l the key through a bole in one of his pockets
hsitcver, ffifpicion attaching upon the prifoner, She
was `fought after and apprehended at the Hole in the
Wall public houfe, or. in that neighbourhood. The
pocketbook with the notes therein was found in her
poffeffion, on which She fell on her knees and beg-
ged for forgivenek.
The property being produced, the Prokcutor
identified the pocket-book without hefitation.
The prifoner offered no defence, and the Learned
Judge who tried she cafe (Lswasace) obferved to
the Jury, that if they were of opinion the girl took
the pocket-book out of the box, there could be no
doubt upon the cafe, as the notes amounted to a far
greater bum than was wearily required to bring it
under the law.

After a (kart conference the Jury pronounced, a
genets' verdla of—Grier—Drab.
The prifoner is it very well looking girl, and Rated
her age to be 19.
Nitii Paced was capitally charged with the of-
fence of highway robbery, in felonioufly making an
affauft upon Edward Gedges, the younger, upon the
7th of January inßant, putting him in fear, and
forcibly taking from his perfon a pair of boots, value
los. the property of Edward Gedges, the elder.
By the evidence, the principal of which was a boy
of eight years old, fon to the Profecutor, and who
appeared duly to underhand the nature of an oath,'
it appeared he was bringing home his father's boots,
after being repaired, in a baficet ; it was of an after-
noon ; he was met by the ptifoner and another per-
fon in Fiolbury.fquare ; they made op to him, and
the prifoner, without laying a word at the time,
fnatched the bafket out of his hand. He isnmedi•
ately cried out, and the prifoner was caught after lie
had ran a very fhort way, with one of the boots in
his hand, which he attempted to throw over the rails
of the Square. On the crofs-eaamination of die lit-
tle Gentleman by the prifoner's Counfel, it transpir-
ed that he had obferved the prifoner and his compa-
nion a little before die bafket was taken from him ;
that they walked along tide of him a little way, and
that the prifoner atked him to let him carry the
balket for him; but he was certain it was the pi.
boner who thatched the bafket from him.
One or two Witneffes proved that the prifoner was
taken in Finfbury-fquare with a boot in his poffefflon,
and which he had attempted, jult as lie was laid hold
of, to chuck over the railing of the Square, and that
his companion, by running quicker and a different
way, got off.
The Prifoner left his defence to his Cotinfel.—
Several Witneffes appeared to his character—he is by
trade a thoemaker.
Mr. Plaice Roost laid, that to conflitute the of-
fence Lid in the indielment, there mud be either a
taking by force or violence, or a putting in fear;
' none of which appeared in the prefent cafe by the
evidence; the offence was therefore reduced to a
larceny, and a verdift to that import was accordingly
pronounced.
The Prifoner is very low in nature, near:y as di-
minutive as the child from whom he took the pro.
petty, and is greatly deformed.
Mary Waracr was indieted for felonioufly fleshing,
on the 27th of December, one feven fhilling piece,
and fix Millings and fixpence in laver, from the per-
t-nu of John Gallic, his property.
It appeared that the Profecutor, a jnirrneyman
fhoemaker, fell in with the Prifoner. a mph of
the Pavement, who happened to be unlimited at that
time, between two and three o'clock in the runriong
of the day abnire-mentioned ; he had been drinking
in ermpany nearly to th it hour, but was not much
intoxicated, being, in the language of re: of the
Witneffes, only about " half gone "—He met her
near Fleet Market, and after fm: converfairon, it
was agreed they fh.,uld repair to the %%late Honks
an open honfe which fhe recommended, near (late
market. When they were there, in ene of the bore,
in the tap-rnom, the Prof,•eilini tailed out and ni•
&sc.' a pint tit purl ; while lie was thus crniiiiiyid,
cd het I.ai.d into his pucLet and
tonk tint the nm nes laid 111 ill I.ldiqm:nt ; lie ftlt
her in ilis 1 k.:! : I. •tiCe ir,f it to

her du. tn‘mletit. 1 at 111,11;v r I' c was fcciirg
foals rt. s, h•ch he " 1..0 L4.c takrti
my ms an LVW you w4i.t. Wald)•111

=tit eft t Grit watelimsn 4%.•••." 14, no.
rusty did n being teaselled. 1`.., mime: was
foind *pun hei.. And fuels fur islenreiruo y evidenze
was adduced, as determined the Jury to End the Pro
foner—Gaiki.
Rol ert Rinelen Was indifted for ilealing two pnundi
of galls, On the 16th Dezember. There were two
counts. one Rating them to be the property of the
Exit India Company. and t've other the property of
the pi ivate traders.
Mr. Kw Ar r opened the cafe on the part of the pro•
feeutinn, and nbferved, that the prifoner was em-
ployed, assa labouver, in the Compsr.y's private
trade warehoufe' Horlleydown. It is co!inmary to
fearch the men Wien they leave nff wo, Ic ; the pri-
foner was fuftnOed. (Welled; and the property found
upon him. This happened in the enmity of Surrey.
The prifoner was then brought to the counting }mule
in Billiter•lane, and there fearehed again, when.a fur-
ther quantity of galls were found uprm him. A con:
liable was then feat for. to take the prifoner intd
cuflody, and fearch his lodgings, which were iii
Hortleydovni, and where a large quantity of variant
4/licks belonging to the Company's trade were ela
foun.d•

Henry Matthews,'the 6rft winters called, raid, hi
was en salient elder in the Company's warehoufe;
Hortletdown. The prifoner was employed there as
a labourer. On the t6th of December, when the
pi iconer was leaving work, he communicated his
fulpicions to him, that he had Come of the Company's
property about him. It being his provinces(' (earth
the men, he infilked upon the prifoner's flipping and
being [earthed. He then confered that he had
herded tome galls, and took about gm. out of his
waiticoat ; they were in a fmall canvas bag. He then
took the prifoner to the coun4ing.houfe,
when a conßable was fent for, and the prifoner fearch-
ed a (mond time, when another bag of galls of the
fame quality was taken from his breeches pocket. He
was not prefent when he was fearcbed, but raw the
bag in a minute afterwards. The prifoner was that
taken before the Lord Mayor.
John Rigby, the conliable of ,Aldgate, raid, that
on the I 6th of December, about half pal two o'clock,
he was Cent for to Billiter-lene, to &arch the prifoner,
when he found a bag of "alb, weighing about 311 e.
6oz. in the rfter tart of la/wal Atha. He then went
to feareb the prtfoner's lodgings, in a court in Horf-
leydown, and found there a quantity of pepper, indi-
go, borax, loofa galls, and a variety of ether articles.
The prifoser received the benefit of a good cite.
raaer, but was found Grill,.
Refer! Harsilim was nadir:fed for felonionay ReaUng
a cheß, containing tea and other articles, the pter
petty of James Smith.
Mr. Smith, who is a grocer in Cannon.ftreet, deb.
vexed the theft to iporter named Vttikoz, frith orders
to convey it to a Gentleman in Crane•fireet : when
he bad carried it as far as Watling.flreet, he obferved
a waggon, and obtained permiffion of the driver IA
pot his load id, after which he Followed it as far at
the Bolt in Tun, Fleet-beet, and there walked els
so the waggoner, to enquire for Crane.Rreet, was
away from-die theft but a few feconds, and on re-
turning found it was gone. He immediately alked
/event paiengers if they had fast any perfon r
by
With the elsefF? and at lafi difeovered two ants GM u'
on it in Crown•court, both of whom ran away, but
one of them (the prifoner) vas taken. The latter
raid in his defence, that he was a Waterman. salted
been hired to convoy the ehell to Pepper-alky, bet
being enable bintfelf to carry it down to his boat, had
waited while his employer went to procure another
affiflant. He called fevers) petfons to his charafter s
the whole of whom gave him that of an handl man.
—The Jury believed his linty and acquitted him.
RSCORDIIt." Take care, young man! for if roe
ever come here again the Court will remember thh.
You have had a narrow efcape."
BlGAllT.—Tbornsu Swith was indißed for hiving
felonioufly married a fecund wife, his fira wife being
fill living. The perfon who produced a ropy of the
Regifter of the Rut marriage, in order to prove that
ruck marriage had taken place, could nut (wear to its
being an craft copy ; he had not compared it with the
Regifter hook,and was only prefent when it was takes
down. This copy therefore could not be admitted as
evidence. The woman, who was Rated to be this
prifoner's firß wife, then came forward to prove the
marriage, but the Judge would not fuller her to give
any evidence, becaufe it the prifoner had been legal
married to her, fhe could not be a witness in this
cafe ; and if file was not his lawful wife, the profs
cotton was at an end. By his Lordfhip's cSreftios,
therefore, the prifoner was &mimed.