Star.
London, England, 1822-02-21 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday the business of these Sessions commenced heir.re
the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Justice Base, Mr. Justice RLI:A R3ii.R,
Mr. lissom Garram, and Mr. Alderman BRIM'S. The Fi-
loners were placed at the bar, and severally pleaded to the in-
dictments; and two or three cases were called on, le:t could net
be proceeded-with on account of the absence of Cie p7o-t.cut
The Court ordered that in no case where the reo.ecntore were
not in attendance when the cases were called on should they be
allowed their expenses.
Willisas Osborne, aged 20, Edwin Cochronc, alias .I,:nies 31. -
-views, aged 19, and Jahn Clare, aged 23, were indicted fur bt:r-
glarionsly breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Maria
Kelly, and stealing therefrom a watch, a quantity of plate, and
other articles, to the amount of upwards of 2001.
W. Duckett, gardener to Mrs. Kelly, deposed that he was in
the house, at Harrow-on-the-Hill, on the 16th of January.
There were then two female servants in the house with him.—
He retired that evening about ten o'clock, having first secured
the doors and windows. :I!),,tit twelve o'clock he was dit,-
turbed by a light passing his charnher door, and be inquired
who was there. to which a man's voice replied," What's that
to you ?" Witness then rose, and went to them, upon which
one of them preseuti..i a pistol at him, and ordered bins to re-
turn to his bed, with which demand he was obliged, having
arms, to comply. He afterwards heard them ransacking his
mistress's bed-chamber; is quite sure there were at le.!st three
in the house, for one of them remainel in the room with hi n,
,and witness heard the other say, " D—n bins, blow his breins
out !" After remaining there same time, some one called cat
" Richard," and the man went down stairs. However, :le
returned some time afterwards to see if witness remained the::,
and finding him, went away, and locked the door after him.—
Witness escaped by the window, and alarmed the neighbours.
On his return, he found several things lying ab.aut, but the niea
Were gone.
Elizabeth Bobcn, another servant of Mrs. Kelly, corrohe.
rated the evidence of the last witness.

Mrs. Kelly, the prosecutriz, deposed that she was in town at
the time of the robbery. She received an account of it early
the next morning, and immediately returned home; she found
her drawers' broken open, and her clothes strewed about the
roots, ; in her bed-room there Is a very strong closet, ti.e door
of which has the appearance of leading into another room ; it
contained plate; and witness locked it up herself, before leav-
ing home ; on her return she found It broken open by force, and
the plate gone. It consisted of six silver candlesticks, tour
dozen silver table-spoons, two dozen silver forks, and a vast va-
riety of other articles of plate; there was some riband taken
away, which witness had in her possession since 1809, she pre-
served it on account of its being almost the only article that was
saved when she had the misfortune to be shipwrecked. The
watch and some other articles wltness saw again at Bow-street,
and can swear to their being her property. Cochrane had been
in her employ for some months, and was discharged on the day
of the Coronation. He knew where these articles were kept.
W. Scott, a Bow-street Officer, apprehended Cochrane and
Osborne, when Osborne endeavoured to throw a watch in the
fire, but witness prevented him. On searching him he found a
gold repeater and scone other things in his possession.,
Sayer, another Officer, searched Cochrane. On his person
were found two picklock keys. of a peculiar construction.
' Cochrane, in his defence, said, that he saw Osborne pur-
chase the watch of three men ; the reason why he attempted to
escape was, that he owed a person a small debt, and be was
fearful of eing detained.
Osborne told the same tale, and added, that he received the
riband at the same time. _ _

John Clare denied any knowledge whatsoever of the rubbery.
Several respectable persons gave Clare and Osborne good
characters; when Mr. Justice Herr summed up, and the Jury
returned .1 vertlict—thboine and Cochrane Guilty—Clare Nut
Guilty. •

Inmsr.—An Inquisition was taken yesterday at the rThck
Horse, high-street, Poplar, on the bodies of Mrs. Rose Ellison
and her son Thomas a fine boy six years old. The deceased
was wife to the mate of the Lord Melville, now lying at Graves-
end, having lately returned from India. On Saturday night
she, accompanied by her son (deceased), her brother-in-law, and
the Captain of the afort said ship, set out in a waterman's
from Blackwall Stairs to meet the Wellington Gravesend packet
boat, by which she meant to go to her husband on bo.:rd the
Lord Melville, she not having seen him for some years. The
night wu very dark, and on the boat getting down the River,
opposite the Gun Tavern, it was overtaken by the Wellington
packet, which sudden!): ran It down, and the vraterman and all
the passengers were plunged into the River. 'they all however
escaped by clinging to the dead eyes of the rigging of the packe,
with the exception of the two deceased, who, after suruggling
for some minutes, sunk to rise no more. They were dragged
next day (Sunday) and both pulled up together, the hiy en-
twined in his mother's arms. Verdict—Accidental Death, with
a deodand of £5. on the Wellington packet.