Star.
London, England, 1804-05-18 00:00:00

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ithisediately *Mt to Mars. &dont and Co. td I
whom he relined the manner it had beets given him!
to exchange, and pointed out the prifriner then in
' the boofe ; ou which he was taken into cutiody, And
fearehing h;m the three tol. notes were found;
anfwering the numbers of thole paid to Smith by the

clerk.
The etidenca corroborated the whole of there Get,
• it gave the pritoner a very good charaner for hcl-
netty, previous v. the prefent offence.
The prifouer made no defence, and the Pry, upon
the eleareft proof, tOund him Gutlty.—Drath, aged
33. His appearance was genteel.
AN:earth Etat boa putt !notes, were indined for
robbing James Hill, on the highway, r» a Myer
watch, &c. and Thad /.(cob for receiving the fame,,
knowing it to have been tlnlen.
The Prolecntor was walking, slang Great Reffell.
Rivet on the evening of the 16th of April, when the
prifoner Elii.zave him A nudge, drew the watch from
his fob, and ran off. He overtook her, but file de
nied the robbery; when two men came up and gave.
him Come blows whillt the pritoner ran off; but he
could not (wear to• the man pastier being one of
them. The Prolocutor watched the men to a public
hoofe in Dyot.Arect, and gave information at Bow.
greet. He had teen the prifoner Ellis before, the
having drank with him at a public bode on that
day. but there was no intimacy between them.
John Conway was palling along Dyot-ltreet, be-
tween liven and eight o'clock, on the evening of the
lAme day, whets he law the prifoner, Ellis. in the
custody of the Profecutor, whom the was attempting
to efcape from. He a: length threw her clown, when
he law the prifoner, Leach, take the watch from her
boffins and ran off.
Severally witneffes were called, who (poke favour-
able of the charaner of the man prifoner; the mo
ther of whom proved an alibi, by declaring her fon
to have been at home the whole of the evening that
the robbery had been perpetrated. Prior to the
Judge Cumming up, an impeachment was attempted
of the charaCler of the witnefs, Conway, by Mr.
Wank, a coach-Rep maker, who (wore that he would
not believe him upon his oath, he haring condoned
binfelf in the molt fcandalous manner whilli his clerk.
Conway was re-called, who produced a charaner
for two years written by Mr. Waftie, (peaking of
him itt the highel terms; and be informed the Judge
that W. had owed him ill will from his having call
ed at his honk, tome time fince, for the payment of
Come wages due to him, when he was infulted by his
boy, whom he (truck. Mr. W. had in confequence
fent tome Officers for him, and dragged him from his
wife, who had jet been delivered, and the permr•
bation of whole mind on the occafion had canted
the death of the child.
Mr. Wattle was again called, and qneflioned whe•
titer or not that chataner was written by him, ivlrich
he acknouledged.
Mr. Jolliet GROSF.--1(00 have dealt miferably—
foully—by giving '4 man the charafter of an bona
man, whom you now reprefent as capable of perjur•
lug himlelf in a Court of Juflice.
Mr. do not mead to fay that he is a dif
hood} man.
The Jury, after con(dierable hefitation. pronounced
Elizabeth Ellis Gritty—The other two Net Gaily.
G. No/kiwi was indined for Ilealing a quantity of
copper money, and Tome buns, the property of Mr.
The precentor had fent a boy with tome paltry
from Hackney to town, who was accotled by the
prifoner, in company with others, in the L- ndon
field, under pretence of purchafing fume articles,
when he (notched the buns, and ran off. The youth
ran after him, when he threw the buns on the ground,
and waited the arrival of the youth to pick them up,
in doing which his coat pockets were rifled, which
contained the property. The lad law- the pm ifoner
with others behind him, but could not (wear which
of them picked his pocktt.—Cruiky.
gob: Davenport, a child between nine and ten years
of age, whole head did not reach the bar, was capi-
tally indined for Healing in the dwelling houfe
of
Mary Lucas. (even (billings and fiapence in copper,
and a pair of child's !hoe.. The profecutria, Mary
Lucas, kept a linen diaper's (bop in Wellminfter ;
the child lived in the fame neighbourhood, and play-
ing near the tpot, took an opportunity of privately
going through the Chop into a back rocm. and
from the caddie on the table took out the halfpence
in quettion, and alto a pair of child's (hoes lyingpar.
He was &idled, and the thiogs found upon him be-
fore he got out of the houfe. The Jury found him
Gitilty.—lrhe father, a decent looking man, was in
Court, and wept bitterly. Mr. Jultice Goose Paid,
he Ihould fend the child to the Philanthropic Society,
At sslsicb he corded great gratitude and fatisfaCtion.
Sit were acquitted, among whom
Charlet Rill was capitally indined for a highway
robbery, in forcibly taking away from a little Loy
in the ltieet, a to ndle containing tome flirts, }sack
inga, and other articles. It appeared that a Hole
boy named Thomas Furncaus, and another boy his
brother, were going home on the night of the 16th
' of April, and when puffing through Church (hem
Soho, they fat down to telt themielves on the tier
of a gentleman's door. Thomas Forneaux hid ti e
bundle on his knees at the time. The prifoner. wfe
was then palling, (Hatched up the bundle and tar
away with it. The boy cried out murder up, ;
which the ptifoner called watch, watch. A Mt.
Pike, who was palling through the (beet At the time
afked what was the matter ? the prifoner told him I.
had found a 'malefic in the pffetlion of a boy, an,
that he wanted to know what was in it. Mt.
took the ptifoner by the collar, and delivered Barns t.
the fatrole, who lodged him in the watch Lome
the prifoner, in his defence, laid he had been
drinking at a bottle in Dean-fireet, and that %%l et. h.
taw the hnndle with the boys, he thought they had
ltolen it, and that he took it up, and called thi. walk:
in or der to have them blot:gin t, jolt ice.
Mr. Jolliet Gros. in his chat ;,e to the July, f. id
there WAs 11C1 pro a of any highway r' libet y haling
been committed becaufe, in order to conlittute that
offer cc, there nit. be tcfulanee an the tof the
perfon robbed, or ;he perion MLitt Kite patted a ith
the property through fear. that in this CAA there
was only a fnatching, in the tame manner At if a
man's hat had been watched off his head. The god
tints then was, whether the prifoner had ft, len the
bundle, or had taken it up on a filipiCloll that it 1110
been dole:t by the boys
The jut; loud th: trifoner