Star.
London, England, 1801-12-11 00:00:00

OLD LIME?:

Wednefday (even prifoners were tried, one of
whom was capitally convi,lcd, viz.
Peter Corcoran, for felonioufiy atraulting Mary
Dye, on the King's high way, putting her in fear,
and robbing her of a lilver watch, a black lattin
cloak, and other articles, her property.
This was a cafe of extract; dinars, aggravation,
and the prifoner, from the evidence, appeared a
triminal.of the blackefi dye. It appeared he had
been convicted in the early part of the Setlion of
robbing a Ihip. In the prefent cafe the material
has were—that on the 16th of (Moller, he and
the profecutrix, an unfortunate female, fell in with
each other between ten and eleven o'clock at night,
and went to a public-houfe to drink fome liquor.
The profecutrix wilhed to pay for what they had,
but not having futficitat money, the proffered a
filver watch, which the had, to the landlord, as a
temporary depofit ; but this he was unwilling to
take. The prifoner then interfered, paid for the
liquor, and they departed together : they had not
gone far, when the prifoner forted ber up an un-
frequented court, whezilie Willed upon having the
watch from her. The poor creature refuted, and
naturally made fume Mile ; on which the remade-
lefs ruffian knocked her down with In violent a blow,
that, as it appeared, the lay in a Rite of inknfi-
bility and flupefattion for mar three hours. A
watchman found her in that terrible fituation at
about two o'clock the next morning, lying fent-c-
-lefs on the pavement her cloak had been taken
from her; the watch, of cootie, guile; and her
pockets rifled. The profecutrix fwore pofitively to
the fads pn the part of the prifoner, previous to
her being knocked down ; and the landlord of the
publiclioute above noticed, proved the prifoner
had been with her the night of the trnh of Otto.
ber, and that the had offered hint a lilvcr watch, as
Ike had toed ; and it farther appeared, in the
courfe of the evidence, that when lie wa, appre•
hended on the charge of ;killing in the (hip, he
canfeffed the crime which was the Ibbjett of the
prefent indittmcnt tatid the Wituell,exprefied his
with that he might be hanged.
On tellimony to the above general effect, the
Jury found the prifoner—Guilty—Death.
Four were convitted of felony, viz. •
Waher Conan, for Itealing a pocket lanthorn,
and other articles, the property of George and
-Jotaph Oliver; lobs Biagi. alias Socials, for heal-
ing e pair of men's Owes, the property of Mai k
Yell; Mary Parrett, for Healing a loin of pork,
the property of john Drew ;
.74:s Corpus, for
(haling a copper frying pan, the property of
Edward Robinfon I and

Two were acquitted.
frame Hnsierfior wfs tried for felonictuay re-
ceiving a quaptity of iron, called Dutch filirg nails,
the property of John Perry, the elder, John Perry,
the younger, and Philip Perry, of Bleck war., he
well knowing them to have been, Ilolen I and for
which raid of cnce of haling. one Charles Sibley
was conviaed at the la* Se(llonh at the 014
Mr. K wow Lis opened the cafe thortly for the
profecution, and called Mr. zpatrick, who
proved the Record of the.conviEtion of Charles
Sibley.
Charles Tempel:, foreinan to Men. Perrys, and
Brown and Cooke, the Police officers, gave the
Cone evidence as em the trial of Sibley, as to the
(.arching for, and taking away the nails.; the only
new matter was to prove that he had abicunded
I.nce the I ith of Septemlwr, when the (remit woe
utuk.—ls dercort /r. ALL r called

Mr. Tel',camp, Clerk to th. Pnlice Magiftrates
at Shadvrell, to protfe, that boon after the bill of
indatment had been found againft. him, the pri-
inner fun him a notice, that he would furrcnder
on the Brit day of the tiffkon, which he admitted to
have melee:ton the loth of Noveitibtr.

Ann Wheeler, daughter of the prifonet; lived
in the•houfeat the time• with let Other... Me hid
-been .abfent from home fluee4iii tP2kli of •Aatgeft,
at J-ligh Wvcomb, in Brie k ingbansiltitot,, *here he
was about taking a public.honlkViatety kept by
his brother-in-law ; that he did notettern OS town
till the Bth of September, the daystfter'theblficers
had fearohod the houfe the Brit tithe, and went
away early in -the morning, on the ! ith, the clay
the goods were taken away •by the offictrs. In
anfwer to a qaeltiori allied by the Cost molt Sea-
;easy; the fwore that all the nails were brought
there by a man the did not know, on•Qbe sth of
fjeptember.
Samuel Wheeler heard the ptifianer declare to
his daughter, before he went out of town on the
sth bf-Auguft, that he was going to leave off bu-
finds, and defired her not to take in any work, or
perch:tie any old iron. On the jth of September
•he heard a man come into the Mop, and fay, be
had brought fome iron to fill. Site raid her fa-
ther was hot in the way, and that fhe waited him
to take its back. The man Paid he would leave it,
and then went away.
On his erofs.examination by Mr. Knowtss, he
coned not at firfi fay who put the nails in the fack;
but after, raid the officers put them in. When the
offeeri took the nails away, he told them he had
nothing to do with the butinefs, übr knew how they
came there. The officers came frequently after
;Abe prifoner; he never told them how the man
had left the rods ; but had told them that the
Tirifoner *as in Buckingitamthire on bufincfs.—
•t'he *knell was a fpettator lit the gallery on
Sibley's itial ; he -came in when Mr. Tempell was
giving his evidence; and heard a confeilion read
that Sibley had fold the nails to his father-in-law ;
he told Mtn of it, and he raid he would surrender li
at the next tefllons. Laft Monday week the offi-
cers went down to take him at High Wycomb,
bat they could not find him. It was rumoured
abOut Pc;)lar bare the feff.ans, that be. the. pri
foner.was implicated, but he thought lightly of it;
and though he was at that time on the pint of
marriage with his prefent wife, the prifoner's
daughter, he never had any converfatirin with her
about it : he has had with the fon, and that very
frequently. Several whinges appeared to give
him a charter.

Mr. COMMON SERIEtINT, after fornming up the
evidence with great precifion, proceeded to the law
of the cafe, as laras It bore on the circumflance of
his abfconding for if, the evidence in this cafe ap-
peared to prove that faa : but GOD forbid that, if
polible, it Ihould not be allowed to be t chimed.—
The' Learned Judge then proceeded to animadvert
on the evidence of the Prii-oner's daughter and
her hulband, in which he treated them with as
much tendernefs as their affinity to the Prifoner
teemed to warrant, and carnally recommended to
the Jury a difp4onate ernifidetution.
The Jury foultd a versila—Nor Gray.
The Seffions being fo far doled, the RECORDER
ordered the Capital Convias to tit.. Bar, and ad-
dreffed them nearly as follows
Prifoners at the Bar—lt is a certain proof
that the laws of this country are fo mild and hu•
mane, and the adminiftratnrs of juffice 16 atten-
tive to the life and liberty of the lubjed, that the
guilty often efcape pimilhment. As thi, is true,
it is alfiesas certain, that thole whounder filch laws
are found guilty, can have little claim to mzrey
from that fociety they have by their crimes injur-
,ed. You have been tried by Juries as merciful as
difcreet, fo that I cannot even venture to hold out
.to any of you the linallea alleviation of your fen,
tenets. Your part lives, lam afraid, will afford
'you little conklation to reflation. I therefore
earnettly recommend that you would employ the •
Ilion time that you will have to remain in this
world, in preliating yourfelves by prayer, conlef-
lion, and repentance for your tins, to merit the
pardon of your highly offended :t" RVAT.R. 1 have
only to add to this molt painful part of my duty
die palling the awful lenience of the law.
Sentence of death was then pronounces on