Star.
London, England, 1816-09-19 00:00:00

OLD -,BAILEY,

Tbest• Senior* yesterday.nommeneet, after
usual vacation, before Baron GRADAM, Mr. Justice
HOLROYD, and Mr. Justice BORROUOIL,
Jolt" Awns was capitally indicted for assaulting
John Millard on the King's highway, and forcibly
taking,from his person a silver watch, two 030 bank
notes, a 420 bank note, and other notes, to a consi-
derable amount.
The prosecutor lived at Limehouse at the time of
the robbery. On the night of the 16th of July, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve, he beard some
men walking in his master's lime yard. He went
into the yard, where,he saw five men standing :—he
asked them what they were doing ? and one of them
said, with an oath, " Where is your money P' John
Warren was at that time about sixteen feet distant.
Witness had worked with the prisoner for two years
upon the same spot. One of the men said, Ido
not think it is him ;" but John Warren replied, 66
am sure it is Millard," and told the men to seize on
him. Immediately the men took witness up by the
legs, and threw him among some lime ; two men
were on his throat and three en his legs, and they cut
off all his pockets. He saw t:•-in take his watch,
and tobacco box containing a 420 note, a 430 note,
and aAI note. From his right hand breeches pocket
they took seven 410 notes and on • £3O note, and
from hits left hand waistcoat pocket two tgl notes.—
The yard at the time was as light as day from the
foe of the lime kiln. The reason witness assigned for
having so much money about him was, that he had
worked almost night and day for it for seven years,
and he thought it the sarest way to carry it all
about him. The men were about twenty minutes
robbing him ; and after they had taken every thing
laway from him, were going out of the yard, but re-
turned to consider whether they should kill him, and
one cif the men said, ". Let us take out a knife and
cut his head clean off," the prisoner said, 66 He de
serves, to be killed for what he did to me," and tied
him cross-legged with a handkerchief, and threw him
on the lime. Mr. Crauch, clerk to the yard, then
threw up the sash • window, and asked witness—
g• What is the matter ?" but witness could hardly
.peak. One of the men said, It 'is all right
enough." and immediately they all went over the
wall. Witness had no doubt but that Warren was
one of the men by whom he was robbed. The pri-
soner and another of the men were lurking about die
premises the day Wore.
Crass.examined.....Warren did-not beat him, as the
others did, and so witness told Mr. Cranch. The
yard was enclosed by a wall and a double gate.
Re.examined. —The prisoner knew that witness
wss possessed of a good deal of money, as he had
seen it many times. About six weeks before the pre-
ent robbery Warren attempted to rob him, but he
resisted hint with a broom stick, and the prisoner
*ran away.
William Cranch, on the 16th of July last, lived on
the premises in question. `Between 11 and 12 at
night he heard a noise in the yard t he threw up the
waiting, and asked what was the matter ? but hear-
mg no answer, he went to bed again. In about five
or ten minutes after he was disturbed by the cry of
murder r he got up a second time, and called out
three times, who was there ! no answer was received,
..nd he said, if no answer was given, he would fire.—
He did not fire, but in a few minutes the prosecutor
said, 44 It is me, I have been robbed." He found
Millard
in the yard, very much beaten. and all over
blvd, after he had called two watchmen to his assis-
tance. Being told by the prosecutot that he believed
the prisoner and one Dean had robbed him, witness
went next morning in search of them. Both Warren
and Millard had worked for witness, and he had fre-
quently changed ten and twenty p'iund notes for the
latter in presence of all the men ; and the prisoner
was one of those men In consequence of what
Millard had said, the prisoner was apprehended in
one of the fields near Bow, and was delivered over to
a constable and the night beadle at Limelionse, to-
gether with a bundle which was found in Warren's

possession.
John Lymes, night beadle at the parish of St.
Anne's, Limehouse, between twelve and one o'clock,
in consequence of information he had received, went
to the prosecutor in a room in Mr. Cranch's house ;
he was lying on the carpet, and seemed to be dread-
fully hurt.' He said that Warren was one of the per-
sons that robbed him ; and, in consequence, at about
10313 f o'clock in the morning of the 17th of July, he
went after the primer to his owls house on Bow.
eominon, but did not find him at home. After a di.
ligent search, about twelve o'clock the same day,
Mr. Crouch delivered the prisoner over to his hands,
together with the bundle which was found in his pos-
session, and it contained some wearing apparel.—
Witness searched the prisoner, and found upon him
eleven ,el notes, one 410 note, Ss. 6d. in silver,
and 73d. in copper, besides a leather bag containing
the notes, and a case knife.
-- Jones, a constable at Limehouse, went with
the last witness to the prisoner's house to search for
him, but could not find him. He produced the
notes and property found on the prisoner, and in all
other respects corroborated the statement of the last
witness.
George Moore was on the 17th of July last in the
employ of a Mr. Swift, a woollen draper, residiag
at Houndsditch, when, about eight o'clock in the
morning, the prisoner and another young man, came
into the shop and bought some clothes. They ten-
dered a as() Bank note in payment, and change was
got for it, and given to the prisoner. Witness then
went out of the shop, but was called in again to get
change for a 020, and which was given to hint by
the man who accompanied the prisoner : change was
obtained for that note also. The clothes bought by
the men were the same as were contained in the
bundle found upon the prisoner.
Patrick Dalton, another shopman of Mr. Swift,
confirmed the depositions of the last witness.
Charles Green changed the 430 upon the request
of George Moore, and endorsed it with the name of
Swifr. The note was sent. to the Bank of England.
Thomas Whitelake also changed a ASO note for
Mr. Swift's shopman, and endorsed it with his name.
The evidence for the prosecution beinggencluded,
Mr. Animism, for the prisoner, raised an objection
to the framing of the indictment. Under the statutes
of Henry VVI. and lit Edward VI. the benefit of
clergy was inthheki from the prisoner ; and the eg-
ression used in thooe statutes/ as well to in the in,