Star.
London, England, 1803-10-31 00:00:00

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On Saturday 16 prittaiers were tried, one of whom
e--t.viet.d,
Yam.r- So 'r, for burglar/:1,11y entering the honfe
EAse..l:d I) .o moan, a 1:".1..r, in the Strand, ~nd
th.—f;-. property 1,, the value of si. It ap-
pnred in evidence, that at fie o'clock in the morning
0: the 15th inliant, the p:ofecutor heard a noire in his
‘,CII: immediately to his parlour do, t,
-which he found fait. Knowing that he had lett it
- • al the preceding evening, he "ac alarmed, and
f dit open, when two men ratted upon him, and
ck•.J him. down. One ni:rie his &arc; the
()tiler fell ss int him. After aruggling together for
lime time, the lecond man made his efcape ; but the
pv,)fecuzot toil,,weJ and took him. The p:ifoner left
"is hat a ~1 l':oes behind him in the parlour, and con-
! inertly without any when taken. The pro-
~Ity W4l not taken out of the batik, but had been
r.moved and packed up. The cafe was extremely
..tar, and the Jury found the prifoner guilty of
ing in the dwelling-hotife to the value of 40s. but not
tst the burglary. This makes no difference in the
p tuifliment.
One was conrifted of a mildemeanor, viz.

.70n Go',lupin, indiaed !tor counterfeiting a half
guinea, and uttering the fame, knowing it to be Life
and counterfeit. _ _ .

William Bnynan, a baker rear the Tower.flairs,
faid, that the prifoncr came to him for change of a
one pound note or half guinea, Paying that it was for
a peslon who was to pay him his &le, he being a
v-atLrman. The Witnefs offered to change the 11.
r•J:e ; upri which the pt ironer Paid, that he had not
the note thlre, and requelled change for the half-
guinea. Having received this, he ran off in a hurry,
which exciting fame fufpicion in the mind of the Pro-
fecutor, he looked at the half-guinea, and found it
was a counterfeit. He then purfued the prifoncr,
who was taken, and fell upon his knees, afking for-
givenefs.
Seveial ingeni9us obfervations were made by Mr.
ALLEY, Coudel for the prifuner, who quoted Latin
in tare Jury to prove his client innocent. The Jury,
not withflanding, found the prifoner—Guilty.
Twelve were convifted of felony, %IL.
William Hal!, fur dealing a goule, the property of'
Daniel Lott.

The prolecutnr is a farmer at Ifleworth. On the
3d of September Taft he found a bag, about feven in
the evening, with one gook in it. He waited, ex-
peeling the perfon who had left the bag to come fnr
it. A little before twelve he law fomebody coming,
and heard him ruffling in the (haw P • he called out,
'‘ Hall, is that you ? Speak, or I'll fire on yon."—
Ttte than ran off, when the profecutor fired,
aid wounded him in the legs. He followed him
home, and his wife denied him. He was next day
takes up, and Sting examined by a furgym, fcveral
di' • • • • Thr

Fats fo: the prollcutnr—did the vent!: at her own
I. ; had a book iii v hi,h the work was infert-
Ld when 11. e re turnel its hut was never let down
*hen the got it ; bought a bonnet nine weeks ago
for her filler in law ; paid the fhopman half a guinea
tOr it, which he tet or pi etended to 1:t down; alked her
to fell hat,: for him, on each of which he would al-
low her three fhilllogs profit ; did not accept the of-
fer ; oblerved to her that her children wanted caps;
laid there were fume old fhopkeepers thrown about,
which would firve them ; pm the caps into four
men's hats, which he gave to her to line ;—protelled
moil folemnly fhe did not Real them, and as a proof
of it they were worn by her children daily.
Daniel Pedder laid that the fhopman was now a
foldier, and was in the army before ; that he got
drunk on Saturday and enlilted on Monday ; ac•
knowledged that he undertook to fell articles, and
confirmed the prifonet's Ratement refpeeting the
book, which was produced by her in Court.—Not
Guilty.
The prifoner was again put to the bar on fufpicion
of Realing a fheet from Edward Harnett.
Martha Harnett lives in White Crofs-Rreet, miffed
a fheet on the 28th of Auguft laft from a bed in a
three pair of ftairs room ; the prifoner, her hufband,
and two children lodged in a tenement in the fame
houfe with her ; lodged herfelf in the !inure about
five months; found the prifone: in it. Jefore her ;
the lodger who occupied the three pair of Rairs room
quitted it very early on Sunday morning, 28th of
Augull ; went into the room at half palt fevers ;
one (beet was then miffing from the bed ; did not ice
the prifoner that morning till after (he had miffed
the fiteet. The conflable did not fee the prifoner
when he entered her chamber to March it ; found
hats, caps, and a number of articles, together with
many duplicate? lying on a table; one of the dupli-
cates was for a (beet pawned for five (billings. Mrs.
Harnett Rippled the duplicate referred to her Meet;
carried the duplicate to the pawnbroker's Sheppard,
who (hewed her the Meet. The witnefs examined
the corner of it very carefully, and although the
mark was taken out, yet the knew it. The pawn•
broker put the (beet back again.
George Sheppard, pawnbroker, produced the (beet
whith he received from the prifoner on the 29th of
Auguft in the halm of Ann Betts, lodger in Old•
' ftreet, did not mention the particular house, lent her
five (billings on it ; was the very fheet which he
(hewed to the constable and Mrs. Harnett. The
counter past of the duplicate produced by the con-
' liable is the very fame he gave to the prifoner.
Mrs. Harnett Paid that the (beet was marked T.
M. H. in a line, and fo was the other !beet that re-
mains; thought the marks were plainer when (he faw
them at the pawnbroker's ;—the mark of H. was
plain, but the nit were effaced ; could almolt fwear
to her work ; bought them about twelve months
ago, and made them herfelf.
The Jury eianiined the corner of the (beet which

• Hofch, who he thonglit was apprebenfive of beiv
arretled, as he could to t Clod him—that he had the
ney, and could give i; him. In anfwcr to this,
the officer obferved that he could ter. Mr. Hofch at
any time—that he had got the \Variant from him
above a month before; the prifoner was not appre-
hended till the fiat of September.
The profecutor, Mr. Hofch, on being again call-
ed up, Rated civil-Cl:it. bottle flopped payment on
the sth July. With refped to the ptifoner he be-
lieved he might be about twelve months in England ;
that he was from Manheim ; by the defire of the Ba-
varian Miniller, he had been allowed, or advanced
a guinea a week, befides the expences of his lodging ;
he had reafun to believe his friends Were perlons of
rcfpedability.
The prifoner left his defence to his Counfcl, which
was off red through the medium of the crols•exami-
nation—it was deemed unneecfrary to trouble the
Court on the fcore of zharader, the Itatement of the
profecutor in that refped, being confideted as fulli-
cient up to the time of the tranfaC;ion.
Mr. RECORDER recapitulated the evidence, which
was to the above effed, and delivered au able and
impartial charge to the Jury upon the cafe, who after
deliberating fume time, pronounced a verdid
Guilty. The prifoner Rated his age to be nineteen.
John 'Turner was charged with felonioufly
on the Bth of Odober, a deal box, containing a bar-
rel organ, the goods of William Bradford.
William Hughes, potter to the Manufacturers in
Holborn, Rated, that on the day above mentioned,
the box in quettion was placed in a cat t in the ftreet,
jolt oppofita their yard door ; it was in his care. He
law the prifoner come up to the cart, take out the
box, and make off with it ; lie inßantly followed,
loon came up with him, and claimed the property,
at the fame time attempting to detain the thief. On
this the prit;aier drew out a large knife, m..de a
flroke at his throat, and cut the Witnefs's hand very
much as he defended himfelt. He was loon after
fecured. He had never la light of the prifoner from
the time he took the box until he was in cultody. The
prifoner's defence being merely an nnfupported de-
nial of . the charge, the Jury inttantly found him—
Mr. RECORDER immediately addreff:d the Culprit.
He had been convicted on the cleareß and moll fatis-
fadory evident:: of the crime of felony ; had the
Witnefs loft his life on the occafion, he (the prifoner)
mull inevitably have paid for it with the forfeit of
his own. He chofe to make his cafe a fignal exam-
ple, and when any offender fhould draw a knife or
other offentive weapon upon his profecutor or appre-
bender, he fhould fuller the utsnolt punilhment al-
lowed by the law. The fentence of the Court, there-
fore, upon him, John Turner, was, that he he trans-
ported to filch r.rts beyond the leas as his MAJESTY
thall he pleated to appoint, for the term of feven years.
.14artha fitt!.s was tried for haling two pair of
women's flippers from Yelf, ihoe-maker, in

Lack of ,1 chair in tl,e Patllar ; did not
Ili:. TI ptifonr was fitting with her baj%
chair on nhich the kfc it.
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comilabit, taid, that nn ti:,:
o::.ioher, be found the gown in an urlocked ci:1:.
boat d, near the prifoner's room, bnt nothing clfe was
in it : it was nearer to a back room than to ti.e
partner's.
Ann Harwood could not tell %olio was in corop.ir",
with the prifir.:r ; and had no reafon to think tilt
took it but having her back to the chair on which aè
laid it.

The prifoner eftablithed a good charaeler lir cre-
ditable w•itneGes, and the Jury returned a verdict of
Not Guiltv.
G.'cr7e Hay, arraigned for (telling a new copper
from Wm. Richards, was found—Not Guilty.

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