Star.
London, England, 1818-04-07 00:00:00

ty, and, notwithstanding that she was entreated
by the Court to retract the ilea, she persisted to the
last—Death. She was again capitally indicted for
stealing a quantity of printed cotton in the shop of
the same party; and to this charge she also pleaded
guilty—Death. The prisoner is an elderly woman,
and was overwhelmed in agony and tears.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
Yesterday William Latimer Earnthaw, or Hearn-
thaw, aged 22, was indicted for stealing out of a let-
ter, entrusted to him, as a letter carrier, an order for
1/. 19s. 1 ld.
Mr. ROWE stated the case to the Jury, and called
the following evidence :
Harriet Armstrong, wife of Robert Armstrong, of
Bridow, in the Isle of Wight, sent two 11. notes to
the Post Office by a neighbour, for the purpose of
being transmitted to London. The Post Office gave
her an order for the money, which was inclosed in
the letter sent by her to Ann Taylor.
Mrs. Sprainger said, that on the 10th of Decem-
ber she took the monefto the Office, and saw the or-
der for it put in the letter.
Mr. Edward Sweetman, Postmaster at Ryde, re-
ceived the money and gave an order for it. The let-
ter in which it was put was addressed to " Ann 'fay-
lor, Edwards place, Seymour-place, Mary-la-Bonne,
London." Witness sealed the letter, and put it in the
bag himself. It should have arrived in town the next
morning.
Several witnesses proved that the prisoner was the
person who had the delivery of the letters in that
part of London. The letter was never received by
Ann Taylor. The order was clearly proved to have
been traced to the possession of the prisoner, but as
it was written on unstamped paper he was Acquitted.
He was again indicted for having taken four one-
pound notes from a letter entrusted to his care.
Joseph Ford, butler to Sir William Pepys, stated,
that on the 29th of November he sent four I/. notes
in a letter to his wife in London. He had previously
taken down the numbers of the notes. The letter into
which he put them was addressed to his wife in
Mary-la-Bonne, London. It was post paid. The let-
ter never reached his wife. He put it int* the Post-
Office of Twyford, in Berkshire.
Several witnesses proved the letter having been de-
livered to the prisoner, ar.d the r.otes were traced to
him. Prosecutor knew them to be the same which
he had enclosed in the letter mentioned.
It appeared that Twyford is a By-Post Office, from
which the letters are forwarded to Maidenhead, and
there mixed with the other letters ; and, as the per-
son who carried the letters from Twyford to Maiden-
head was not produced to prove their having been
safely delivered at the latter place, the prisoner was
Acquitted after a long examination of witnesses.
The prisoner was twice again put to the bar on si-
milar charges, but the prosecutions were abandoned
on account of similar informalities to that mentioned
in the second indictment. He was detained on a
charge of stealing ir. a dwelling hcuse.
William Young was convicted of stealing in a dwel-
ling house above the value of 405.--Death.
William Freeman was convicted of breaking and
entering the dwelling house of Mrs. Browne, Upper
Grosvenor-street, on the Ist of April, and stealing
therein a quantity of beef, mutton, cheese, &c. her
property.—Death.
Friday night, after the Grand Jury had gone
through the business at the Old Bailey, they made a
'verbal report of the state of Newgate. They had
minutely examined every department, and inspected
the p ovisions, and the Foreman stated, that they
found the prison perfectly clean and in good order,
and that no complaint whatever was made by the
prisoners. The RECORDER expressed his satisfaction
upon hearing sn f..vourable a Renort.

On the 2d of March, as stated in the STAR of the
20th, Plicebe Fisher, a young woman, about twer.ty
years of age, daughter to Mr. Abraham Fisher, of
Westbromwich, left her home about nine o'clock at
night ; eery endeavour was used to ascertain what
had become of her, but ineffectually, until Saturday
se'nnight, when her body was found in the Birming-
ham Canal, about a mile from her father's house.—
An Inquest was held the same day, and the follow-
ing is the material part of the evidence adduced :
A Mr. James Whitehead, who paid his addresses to
the deceased, was with her on the above night at her
father's house, and when he left, she accompanied
him to the gate, where he bade her good night, and
proceeded towards home : after he had gone a few
hunched yards, he heard the voice of a female crying,
and upou turning back, to his surprise, found it was
Mis Fisher : he asked her what was her cause of
complaint ? and she expressed some uneasiness at
what she said she had heard from her sister and mo-
ther in-law, viz. that he (Mr. Whitehead) had nine or
ten sweethearts, and it would be odd if she got him
at last ; she further said, that she was bent upon de-
stroying herself ; he answered this in a jocose man-
ner, and accompanied her back to her father's gate,
when, having appointed to meet her on the following
Saturday, he again left her, and she went towards the
house. This was the last time she was seen. The
body was in so high a state of putrefaction, that it
could only be ascertained by the clothes, but there
were no marks of violence upon it, and the Jury re-
turned their verdict—Found drowned, but how or by
what means no evidence appeared.
Saturday an inquest was held at Shadwell on the
body of a poor old woman, who died on Thursday
last. It appeared that the deceased, who had lately
lost her son, in a fit of despondency threw herself
into the river. A watchman, named Samuel Carina;.,
took her out, and with the assistance of another watch-
man carried her to Shadwell watch-house. The bea-
dle had gone home ill, and had taken the keys with
him. The watchmen not knowing, or not caring what
was to be done, threw the poor old woman, who was
completely drenched, and in a state of stupor, into a
dark hole, where three women were in confinement.
She died in the course of the night, her companions,
who were intoxicated, not being able to be of any
assistance to her. A surgeon, who was called in after
her death, and who was examined on the inquest,
gave an opinion that her life might have been saved
had timely care been taken of her. One of the jury,
who was a constable, thought she had been suffi-
.ciently taken care of, but the majority thought other-
wise, and brought in a verdict—Died from cold Ind
gross neglo.l. The overseers undertook to invostigatc
the case.