Star.
London, England, 1826-09-21 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Yesterdai, Catherine l'armenton and Sarah Jarvis
we►e indicted for assaulting Al• ysius Last, on the King's
highway, and stealing from his person a watch ; and
William Sturdy, for assisting the two females after-
wards, well knowing them to haze committed the
felony. The prosecutor deposed, that on the night laid
in the indictment, he was met by the two female pri-
soners and two men. The men seized and struck hill),
and the women took his watch from him. He was sure
that the females took the watch, though he could not
say which. The men ran off, and very soon after he
was attacked by Sturdy, who knocked him down. The
women then ran away. He got up, and ran after the
females; saw one of them go into a house, and there
lost tlem, when lie was again overtaken, and struck by
Sturdy. Had never seen the watch since.
James Proctor remembered, on the 24. h of August,
seeing Sturdy holding the prosecutor in Lisson-stre:t,
Li•son•grove. The prosecutor fell, then got 4; and ran
after the prisoner Parmenton, whom he knew before.
James Gibbs, an officer, went in search of the pri-
soners ; when he got to where they lodged, he found
Sturdy and Parmenton living as man and wife, and
Jarvis in the room also, who ran under the bed to hide.
Mr. Sergeant A RABIN summed up. He had not called
on Sturdy for his defence, because, from the testimony
given, it did not appear that he was present when the
robbery took place; he ought not to have been inditted
as a principal, but as an accessory, which, perhaps, he
might yet be ; but at present he was entitled to his
acquittal. As to the females, if the Jury believed the
evidence, they would have to find them guilty.
The Jury acquitted Sturdy, and found the female prisoners guilty.

Mr. Serge.int ANASIH quite concurred in thepici.
iety of this verdict, and desires Mr. Wontner to detain
Sturdy till the next sessions. a bill to be prepared against
htm in themineau time, and the witnesses bound over to
prosecute, as it was absolutely necessary that the public
should be protected against such a charac.er.
Thomas Hall, aged 32, was indicted for stealing in
the dwelling-house of Emanuel Allen, two Bank notes,
Value 1501. and Aliz Hall, aged 20, for receiving
oine of the said notes, value 100/. well knowing the same
to have been stolen.

Mr. ALLEY conducted the prosecution.—Mr. Allen,
lois client, was a solicitor of great respectability in Soho,
and the male prisoner had been clerk to that Gentleman.
On the Bth of August, Mr. Allen received a large sum
of money which he counted over, and put into his box ;
soon afterwards he went to the box, and found the sum
in question was gone, which he would distinctly trace
to have been in the custody of the prisoners.
Mr. Allen deposed, that he was a solicitor in Carlisle-
street, Soho ; he was not in partnership with bis sons ;
the male prisoner was a clerk to his sons ; on the 9th of
August last, he was paid a large sum; a few days after-
wards he went to his cash box, and found that a 1001.
note, which he had received from his son Charles, and a
501. which he had received from Mr. Humphries, were
missing. The male prisoner was in the service of his
sons till the 9th of August; he thought he had put the
whole of the money into the cash box, but found that
be had incautiously left the money lost on a desk in the
office ; his sons and Mr. Gilby are in partnership.
Cross-examined by Mr. Axoaaws—He got the money on Wed-
nesday, and until be looked into the cash-box on Saturday, his im-
pression was that he had put the money there. His son-in-law,
Mr. Gilby, scolded the prisoner, in mild terms, on Thursday, the
14th, for neglect of duty.
Charles Petit Allen is son to last witness, and in
partnership with Mr. Gilby. He and his partner carry
on their business in last witness's house, but neither of
them live there. Paid a 1001. note to his father on the
9.h of August:
Mr. Gilby paid the same note on the same day to
Mr. Allen, jun. The office in which Mr. Allen, sen.
transacts his business, is one to which all the clerks,
twelve in number, have access. On Thursday told the
male prisoner that he ought to have left the office long
ago, and desired him to walk of.
Humphties, on the 7th of August, received from
Messrs. Mattineau and Co. banker:, a 1001. note, and
another from Messrs. Hoare and Co. the larger of which
I'e paid to Mr. Gilby, and the smaller to Mr. Allen,
Mr. Alien, sen. and Mr. Gilby identified the note,
which were produced by a clerk in the Bank of Eng
1411 J. clerk had no doubt that the female prisoner

was the wo-ian to whom he h.td paid the geld for the
1001. note.

Mr. Actav at this time said the woman was the male prisoner's
wife, and that be gave up the prosecution against her.
William Frederick Morton is a clerk in the protect).
tor's service. On the morning of the 9th he returned to
the office from the city, where he had received 251. saw
the male prisoner in the office on his return, to whom he
related where he had been, and what he had got. Pri-
soner then said he had more than four times as much
in his possession. Witness inquired where he had got it ?
Prisoner said he had got 1501. on Mr. Allen's desk.
Thought the prisoner said he was afraid they would have
been lost, and that he meant to give them to Mr. Allen.
For some time afterwards took it for granted that pri-
soner had returned it to Mr. Allen, as he ought to have
done. The moment he heard there had been a robbery,
he communicated to Messrs. Allen what had passed be-
tween him and the prisoner.
Richard l'rice lives at No. 7, St. Ann's.court. The prisoners
same to his house on the evening of the 9th of August, and took a
furnished attic, where they slept.
William Taylor lodged in the last witness's house.
On the flight of the 12th, about twelve o'clock, lie was
awakened by a noise. He ascertained that it proceeded
from the room of the prisoners, and that the male one
was intoxicated ; he heard the male pi ironer say he was
much astonished, after he had been in that house as
long as he had been, to be accused as he had been that
day. Immediately afterwards he heard a rustling of
paper money, and the female prisoner, in a tone of asto
nishment, inquiring how he came by it. This excited
his curiosity to such an extent, that he got out of bed,
and listened at the wainscotting. He heard him reply
to her inquiry, " It's no odds, the money was his ; he
should go abroad; would she go with him?" She asked
where he meant to go? He said, first to Dover, then
to Calais, and next to somewhere else. She said she
should ni:t go, and wished he would return the property
to somebody, the name of whom he could not hear.
He said he should go; she observed that she should not,
and wished him to take the property back, and not de-
fraud so kind a benefactor.

Cross examined.—Had lodged in the same place for
about a fortnight before the 9th ; did not mention what
he had heard for two or three days to anybody ; when
persons are heard through a partition, it is more diffi
cult to understand them than if there was no partition ;
when persons are intoxicated, they also speak more
thickly than when they are sober, but on this occasion
witne,s was positive that he had heard distinctly every
circum tance that he now related.

Joseph Donner, clerk to Mr. Kirkman, watchmaker
and silversmith in the Borough, remembers the male
prisoner calling at his shop and purchasing a gold watch
at 121. ani a silver one at 21. in payment of which he
gave a 501. note, and received the balance ; saw the pri-
soaer at the Police Office, and was sure that he was the
person ; could now positively say that the prisoner
was the man.

Wm. Dodd, a clerk in Messrs: Hoare and Co.'s, received the
note from Mr. Kirkman, and paid it to Mr. Humphries.
Mr. Humphries and Mr. Allen, sea. identified the note to be the
one Mr. Alleu had lost.

The officer who took the prisoners into custody found
none of the property or watches on the prisoners. He
heard the female prisoner say to her husband, " Don't
tell where you got the bills, or what you did with them."
Mr. ANDREWS now submitted, that the capital charge
against the male prisoner failed, on these two grounds,
—that when he first took the money, he had no felo-
Dion: intent, but took it for safe custody, intending to
deliver it to its right owner; and neat, that Mr. Allen,
intending to put the money into safe custody, had not
done so, but negligently left it on the desk.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDA Ls stated, that the case for the
prosecution was now closed, and that the female was
not called upon for a defence, but that if the husband
had any to make, now was his time;
The male prisoner declined to say any thing, leaving his case to
his Counsel.

The Learned JUDGE summed up. In his observations
he stated, it might be more diffi:ult to trace the 1001.
note than the 501. one, and that therefore the best plan
for the Jury would be, to confine their attention to the
501. note. There were two questions for the Jury to
consider—first, whether the prisoner was guilty of
stealing in a dwelling-house at all; and next, whether
he was guilty of stealing to an amount above 40s. It
the prisoner was guilty of stealing at all, his offence
was a capital one, the amount of the notes being far
above Ws. but if there was no intention to steal
the money when the_prisoner took, it, and that he
then meant to return tIA money to Mr. Allen, and that
the intention of keeping it came upon him some time
after he left the house, the Jury could only find him
guilty of larceny.
The Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the female prisoner, and
also acquitted the male prisoner of the capital charge, but found
him guilty of a larceny.

Elizabeth Lunn, aged 22, was indicted for stealing
two gowns, and other articles, to the value of 71. The
circumstances of this case were, that the prisoner went
to hire herself as a servant of all work to a Mr. and Mrs.
Wright, at L imbeth ; she remained there for about five
weeks, and then, at an early hour, before the family
were up, went away. Subsequently it was ascettained
that she had taken several articles of wearing apparel,
some of which were traced to her, having pledged
them ; but Mr. Adolphus, for the prosecution, not being
able to trace the whole of the goods, gave up the capi-
tal charge, but thought he had proved the larceny.
The prisoner denied the charge. She appeared in a very ill state
of health, and stated herself to be without a friend in the world.—
Guilty of a petty larceny.

Henry Dunn and Martha Smith were put to the bar,
the first charged with stealing shawls, silks, and other
articles,value 1001. of George Drake Sewell and Thomas
Cross, to whom he was shopman ; and the woman with
receiving them, well knowing them to be stolen.
The details of both evidence and argument were of
tedious length. The main objection taken was, that the
goods having in all probability been removed in small
portions, of less than 40,. value, at each time, whether
the capital charge could be sustained.
The objection was overruled. The goods were fully
identified by the prosecutor and his people, and traced
by the clearest evidence to the prisoners. On their ap-
prehension, the prisoner Smith did not attempt any
concealment of t& fact of having received them from
her paramour, but *tared her entire ignorance of their
having been stolen.
Mary 13 iker knew the prisoner Smith. She spewed
witness a piece of green silk of the colour called Ester-
hazy. She said that there were about 15 yards, which
would make a diess and bonnet. She spoke of one
Henry, whom witness understood to be the man at the
bar, as a vet y kind man, and a good friend of hers.—
She said, that he was fareman at a linen draper's, and
that he got the linings at wholesale prices, and that he
etas to pay for them out of his salary. She showed a
few pail s of gloves.

Maria Wirite had lived with the prisoner Smith for'
ive weeks, up to thitime in which she was taken up.
Had seen Dunn there often, and various silk and other
goods which Smith said came from Dunn. Witness was
taken up with her,- but discharged at Marlborough.
sweet. At the watchhouse, Smith said that she did not
know that Dunn had stolen the goods.
Mr. Cross identifietrthe piece of brown silk.
Cross-examined—Knew it by the selvage and the colour; he had
forty yards of it ; the manufacturers generally make 120 yards of
gth
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atetphaettcezpricletc usual
la ual for the shopmen to be supplied with
Charles Cruce keeps the books of the prosecutor, and
enters all sales to the shopmen. The goods entered
against Dunn did not amount to 20s. His salary was
451. a year, and the last quarter was due to him when
apprehended.
Several pawnbrokers produced goods which had been pledged by
Rowland and Mills for 4' Anne Smith."
Mr. Rowland and Mrs. Malls proved that they had pawned the
goods for Smith.
The prisoner Dunn left his defence to his counsel.
The prisoner Smith said that Dunn gave her the things, and that
she did not know that he had stolen them.
Several witnesses of respectabitity gave Dunn a good character.
Justice LlTtri.rmiLe summed up at some length.— Verdict against
both prisoners, Guilty.
John Knott, grocer, was charged with sending a letter
to William Knott, Esq. threatening to-accuse h.m of an
infamous crime, with intent to eat°, t money from him.
The prisoner persisted in pleading guilty, notwithstand-
ing the admonition of the Court that it would avail him
nothing as to the mitigation of punishment, and the
plea was recorded.

The Rscoanzo immediately pronounced sentence upon him, of
transportation beyond the seas for seven years.

NEW COURT.
Thomas Barnet stood indicted fur steal7ng on the 17th
of July last, two shirts, valued 7s. and one shift, valued
fis. the property of William Griffith.
Mr. Griffith's servant, on ihe day mentioned, about
one o'clock, putt out the articles to dry on a green be-
side Mr. Griffith's house, and in about an hour they
were gone.

John Groves's house commands a view of Mr. Grif-
fith's green from his window ; on the day mentioned,
witness saw a person take away the shirts from the green ;
witness then went out and pursued the person, and cried
" stop thief." The thief ran through a brick field, and
witness could not overtakehim.

Henry Shirley is a bricklayer; was working in the
brick field on that day. He heard a cry of " stop thief,",
but does not know who said it. Saw a person running
through the field ; it was the prisoner.
Cross-examined by Mr. PHILUTS—The prisoner was 60, yards
distant from witness ; might be 100 yards, more or less, for aught
be knew. Witness never saw the prisoner before that day, hut still
he is positive he is the person wbo was running through the field.
By the COURT—Did not see Mr. Groves that day.
(The COMMON SERGEANT here desired witness not to
leave the Court, and read his evidence before the Magis-
trate, to whom he stated that he heard Mr. Groves cry
" Stop thief," and saw him. The witness, in consequence
of this palpable contradiction bf the evidence given by
him before the Magistrate, was committed to Newgate
to stand trial for perjtity.)
The Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the prisoner.
lhontas Weaver, a fashionably-dressed man, was in•
dicted for stealing 22 yards of lace and 12 pair of silk
stockings, the property of Mr. Bates, a linendraper.
Mr. Bates stated that the prisoner was in his employ-
ment as shopman, for three months. At the end of that
time, he was discharged, but allowed to remain in the
house for the night after. In that time he connived
to steal the property in question, and it was found in
his box.

It appeared that the prisoner is the person who some time ago
prosecuted the author of the Hermit in London, for robbing him of
100/., on which be was acquitted.
The COMMON SERGEANT now asked Mr. Bates whe-
ther, at the time he took the prisoner into his service,
he was aware of that fact, and that the jury on that oc-
casion did not believe that he had such a sum in his
possession ? Mr. Bates said hie was rot. Had he been
aware of it, he would not have employed him. He
added, that during the time the prisoner was in his ser-
vice, he lost property to the amount of 701.
Prisoner did not deny the charge, and was found Guilty.
John Wood was indicted for assaulting Conrad Meyer,
with intent to rob him.

Mr. Meyer, who is a Swiss Gentleman, stated. that
ton the 19th of June he was sitting in Kensington gar-
dens, when he received a violent blow on the side of the
head, which stunned him for a moment, and cut I.iin
severely; when he recovered he gave the alarm, and
the prisoner, who was seen running off, was pursued and
overtaken. He immediately begged for mercy, and
said he was induced to make lire attempt by distress.
There were found in his possession, when taken, a phos-
phorus box and some other articles which are generally
used by housebreakers. He was found Guilty.