Star.
London, England, 1827-09-21 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Aim Sammons, wife of Ikey Solomons, was indicted
for_having in her possession a:silver watch, the property
innloseph Ridley. well kno*ing the same to be stolen.
It appeared that on the 27th of August Mr. Ridley war
robbed by a fair Cyprian of his watch, which two days
afterwards was found by the officers in the prisoner's
louset:at No. 12, Bell-alley, Petticoat-lane, under a
trap-door in the floor of her bed-room. After the watch
had been• identified by the prosecutor,
Mr. ADOLPHUS, who conducted the prosecution,
called Mr. Barrett,*the clerk of Newgate, who proved
the escape of Isaac Solomon*, the ptisoner's husband,
from the custody of the keeper of Newgate on the2sth
of May last.
The affidavit which the prisoner made on her motion
to postpone the ttial of this indictment to the next Ses-
sions, was then put in and read, in order to stew that
her husband was in North America both at .the time
when this watch was stolen and when it was found in
her possession. The act of receiving it must therefore
I be taken as her own act, and not that of her husband.
The prisoner made no defenc,. and the Jury imme-
diately returned a verdict of Guilty.
She was then indicted for feloniously receiving a
watch, the property of Mr. Richard Beauchamp, well
know.ug it to be stolen. It appeared from Mr. Beau-
champ's evidence, that on the 23d of December last
his shop was broken open, and considerable property,l
of which the watch in question formed a part, was
stolen therefrom. Some time afterwards he saw it
at the Police-office in Hatton-garden, and identified
it as his property. Tue officers proved that they found
the watch in a bureau belonging to the prisoner, in
which she stated that she had packed up a quantity of
other property for the purpose of transmitting it to her
husband.

Mr. BRODERICE submitted there was no case for the
Jury. The Act of Parliament under which the prisoner
was indicted, only came into operation in July last, and
,
tnere was a want of evidence to shew that the watch
came into the prisoner's possession since that period.
The time at which the property was stolen was so dis-
tant, that it was probable that it came into her or her
husbrnd's hands before the Ist of July ;and in the want
of proof that it came into her hands after that day, it
would be necessary for the Jury to return a verdict of
acquittal.
Mr. ADOLPHUS was heard against this objection, but
the CO/AMON SERGEANT held it fatal, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Aot Guilty.
A third indictment for a similar offence was not tried

as it would have been liable to a similar objeation..—
The prisoner. who-is' bout 40 years of age, was much
agitated during the trial, and was carried from the bar
in a fainting state.
Robert Thomas Capps was convicted of stealing two
spoons. one at Baker's coffee-house, Pall-mall, and the
other at the George and Vulture, Curnhill, on the 17th
lof August. It appeared from the witnesses called on his
behalLthat within a month of the time when he com-
mined these felonies, he had borne an excellent chem•
ter in his business as a ship agent and insurance broker.
George Hawkins, aged 11, was indicted for stealing
a gold watch, value Ed. the property of William Light,
on the night of Thursday last, from his dwelling-house.
It appeared front the evidence of a boy of the name of
Jones, who is in the employment of Mr. W. Light, of
Snow-hill, that the prisoner at the bar, and three other
boys, entered his master's shop in the evening of Thurs-
day last three different times, for the purpose of pur•
chasing some indifferent articles. On the last time they
entered it, whilst the three other boys were engaged in
occupying the attention of the persons in the shop, the
prisoner was observed by Jones to lift up a case, take
oat a watch, and sun away with it. He immediately
followed after him, but was tripped up by the other
three boys. The prisoner was caught by another per-
son, who saw him running hastily out of the shop, and
..who stopped him in consequence of his suspecting that
he had done something wrong. The watch was not
found upon the boy's person.
The boy Jones underwent a severe and able cross-
examination from Mr. M•DowAct,, who elicited from
him that he bad been instructed by his master to speak
confidently as to the prisoner's being the person who
had run off with the watch.

Mr. Light proved the watch to be his property; its
value was 61. 10s. In explanation of what his shop boy
had slim, he said that he had only advised bins to
speak the truth, and to take care that he was not con-
fused in the account he gave to the Jury.
The COMMON SERGEANT, in addressing the Jury, took
loccasion to observe, that it was very improper in Mr.'
Light to interfere as he had done with his shop boy's
evidence, to advise him to speak confidently to the pri-
soner's person. Such interference only tended to confuse
evidence, and to interrupt the even course of justice.
He told the Jury that if they had any rational doubt as
to the watch not being worth 51. they ought to give the
prisoner the benefit of it ; as if they found the watch to
be worth 51. and the prisoner to be guilty, they would
convict him of a capital felony.
The Jury reiurned a verdict of Guilty of stealing un
der the value of 51.

Thomas Efrid. alias Brown, was indicted for stealing
a horse, value 61. the property of Thomas Stevens.—
The prosecutor is a higgler, living at Chingford in Es-
sex. On the Vsth of July witness attended Cnelmaford
races, on the evening of which day he turned the horse
in question out to grass in a field near the race course,
in which other horses were turned out. The nett moan-
ing he found out, that his horse had run away from the
'close near the race-ground. Saw him afterwards at the
Ram lan, Smithfield.

Thos. Baker, an offioer on duty in Smithfield, stated,
that he was on duty the 28th of July, when some per-
sons came to him and gave charge of a man who, they
stated, had stolen a horse. He took the man into cgs.
tody who was so charged. when he said he had purchased
the horse at Dixon's Repository, in Barbican. Witness

'Made inquiry, and ascertained that the hone harbsitti
left there by tbn prisonta for sale, and that he was *kJ
Gall -on the Monday Mowing for the money; He
went there on the Monday following, and when the
prisoner came for the money he was taken into cos-
' tody. The prisoner thehgtated. that hi met a man who
was a stranger to hilts in the City road, who stated that
his name was Linton, and. that he lived in Church-street,
Bethnal-green, and promised tb give him five shillings
to take the horse to Dixon's for sale, and appointed to
meet him the following morning at a public-house in
Barbican. Witness offered to go there and make in-
quiries ; and the prisoner then said that he was to meet
the mats at a house in the City-road. Afterwards wit-
ness foetid that no person of the name of Linton was
known there; and on inquiry at Church street, found
that no person of that name was known there.
Thomas Lewis, a clerk to Mr. Dixon, stated that the
prisoner brought the horse to the Repository for sale on
the 26th of July. He gave his name as Brown, and
entered the horse in the, name of Linton.
The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty—Death.
Mr. Sergeant ARABI* told the prisoner, that front
the numerous cases of horse stealing which had recently
occurred, particularly in the county of Esser, it was
absolutely necessary, for the protection of the public,
that an example should be made, and the Learned
Judge advised the prisoner to prepare for the elecution
of that sentence which at the end of the Sessions would
be tiassed upon him.