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London, England, 1828-03-15 00:00:00

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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LINCOLN, Maven it.
The Loan CRIER BARON was occupied during the
whole of the day with the trials of (store Collins;
John Jibb,' usborn, James Squires, William
.firright, and another man, alto named William Wright,
part of a desperate gang of thieves, who had for surue
time past been the tenor of Stamford and the surer
rounding country, which they made the scene of their
numerous depredations. The prisoner, Osborn, who iti
'tin extremely dl•looking fellow, was admitted Kings
"evidence ; and poincipally by his testimony, partially;
.torroborated by that of other witnesses, the following
convictions took place:
Collins was found Guilty of feloniously (in conjunci
ion With Osborn) slaying a sheep, and stealing the car-
case thereof, on the 6th of afcember last, the property
of Robert Stubley, of Edentram. Sentence of death was
recorded, and the Lord Chief Baron intimated to the
prisoner that, if his life were spared, he should never
again have an opportunity of distuthing any body in
this country.
Jibb was found Guilty of breaking and entering (to-
gether with Osborn), the dwelling house of the above.
named Robert Stubley, on ahe night of the 23d of
January last. and stealing a quantity of bacon and va-
riot's other articles. S ntence of death tecorded, with an
intimation of transportation for life.
Squires and Jibb were found guilty of a robbery,
committed by them together with Osborn, and a bro.
;her of Squires (not in custody), in tl e shop of Thomas
Miller, a tailor in Barnack, in the county of Nottharnp.
which they mitered by taking the thatch off the
root, and making a hole through it e coil off.
Wright, who was acquitted of leloniou ly receiving a
gull, the property of If bet t Saibley.-ktiowing it to ha, e
been stolen by Collie's, was !mind guilty of stealing, in
conjunction with O.LOt it, two iron hara,the property or
the trustees of the B wit turnpike•toad.—Sentence in
-be transported lot seven years.
other Wright And Jibb were found guilty of a
robbery, comni.tted by ih,nt and °snot n in a butcher's
shop, which they carted through the roof, and iron,
which If ey caroled away a quantity of oreatoSte. There
itere also over charges not gone into.
The brtaking up of this 1,4 mid.tole gang, consisting
of able bodied n.eit, between the ages of SO and W. was
a matter of great satisfaction in this pail of the country.
WESTERN CIRCUIT—SALISBURY, Masco 13.
MORDRIIA AND ROBBNRY.

Moses Angel and itichard Mises were this morning
placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of
Daniel Bailey, at H►lpet ton, on the 20th Nov. last.
The prisoners, who were decently attired, on being
placed at the bar, exhibited none ol those emotions which
their siLwition usidit to have excited, and we were
sorr► to observe, on more occasions than one, the pri•
sc nets laughed.
• The evidence was circumstantial, proving that the
parties, who were labourers, had been in company ; that
the deceased was found mortally wounded on the road ;
and that a watch, the property Li the deceased, was sold
on the day after the murder by the prisoner Angel,
whose clothes were discovered to be very much torn.

Jane Bailey, widow of the deceased, examined—Trie
watch produced wa, the property of my husband; hr
had it on the morning be,ure Le went away.
A butgeon in attendance proved that the deceased'.
deaiis was occasioned by the wounds received on has
he4J. Other evidence IA as also adduced, which, how_
ev.r, did not appear sufficient to convict Mizen ; tilt
Jury accol (Jingly found Angel,Gui/ty; Nlizen,Aot
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALL then passed the sentence in
the usual form, ordering him for execution on Satur-
day next.
LANCASTER, Wintissrar, Masco 12.
Before Mr. Jki,tice BAYLSY.

Thomas Ducknortii, aged 86, was indicted for utter-
ing a ti rged 100 Bank of England note to Alice Nut-
ted, well knowing the same to be lorgeti, and with in•
te, t to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank
of England, on the 17th if August la-t. In other counts
it was laid with intent to defraud Rachavl Hargreaves,
and oth: r persons named.

Mr. HIEBER r opened the pleadings, and Mr. COURT
NIT stated the case.

Alice Nuttall-1 live at Haslingden wi.h my brother
in law, Pickup, who keeps the Boar's head. The prisoner
came them on the 17th of August. He had some re-
freSbnient, and put up his horse. He had to lay 15..5J.
andhe gave me 2.. He then aked we it I had change
for a 101. note. 1 said my brother in law -was gone out,
but 1 would send and see it I could get it changed.
I* sent John Graham, the ostler, to my •sister to get
chinge... He returned,. and said she had not got
change. 1 then seat him t.) Hargreave's, and he agrin
returned and wished for the Gentleman's name, and 1
took the note into the pat lour, and asked him to put his
name on it. He wrote on it, and 1 gave it to Graham ;
1 told him not to blot it. Giainim Ileac' to me what he
had written; it was gi Thomas Radcliffe" The ink was
then wet. Graham tock it, and retutned w th three and
a Wit sovereigns, a SOs. note, and five other notes. The
prisolier asked me to change the half sovereign. I did
so, and took 6d. that the sadler's hoy said a whip came
tb repairing. The boy baii tit whip was Mr. Duc k worth's.
'Hannah Hargreaves stated that she lived with her
Mpther. The money she gave in change for the note
was her motberli; she marked the note with G.P. with
figares under. The note now produced is the same note.
Thomas Barrett—Apprehended the ptisoner at Liver.
pool, on the 17th of August last ; he apprehended him
at the Saracen's Head lan yard; he took him to a public
house; the prisoner them asked him what be was takng
him for ? he told him t e- was charged with paying away
a forged 101. note; he asked bias what day ; witness
replied ou Friday or Saturshiy; he said, 4. if it was
Saturday he could get through it like nothing."
Cross•examined by Mr. Ilitowsi—He did not tell him
that it was on the 19th; prisoner went with him quietly,
but he resisted being searched ; be found some good
country notes and some shillings upon him.
Hannah Hargreaves recalled—She put on the note
-8, 19, 27, meaning the 19th of the Bth month (August)
but she was wrong in the day, it was the 17th.
Another witness probed that it was the 17th.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was in the
habit of taking large sums of money in his dealings for
gorses and as a coach proprietor Ond reasoned upon the
improbability of his uttering forged notes to persons
"limn he knew, and who knew him, although some of
.them had sworn that they did not He also called a
}.coon who swore that he was at Mr. Pickup's house
again arms the note in question was passed, but tllis
was contradicted.
M,. Justice BAIL" summed up at very great length,
and with the gteitest minuteness.
The Jury, without any hesitation,
.pronounced the
iptisonp...

Sinci the commencement of the pre-
sent lesa, y hiandred men hdre been discharged• trolls
Plymouth Dock•yard.'at the rate of ten men per week.
The redaction has for the present ceased, in consequence
of an order sent down on reidey se'nnight.

THE BRUNSWICK THEATRE.
ADJOURNED INQUEsT.—Parnav, Mallen 14.
At a qttarter.past nine o'clock,This morning, the
proceedings were resumed.
Mr. Major Gi,ff was sworn—l am surveyor of this
district, under the Act of 14. Geo. 111. commonly called
ds The Building Act." At the commencement of the
building of the late Brunswick Theatre, I attended re.,
gularly every day; to see that the 'regulations 4)104
Building Act were carried into effect. I found the wally
in every part much thicker than was requiied by thosel
regulations ; indeed, throughout the • building.'
found the regulations of the Building Act strictlyi
complied with. I attended these only in the ca-f
pacify of district surveyor. There was a projec-
tion, a balcony, which extended beyond the -line
indicited in the Act of Parliament, but I considered
that that was sanctioned by the provisions of a sub-
sequent Act (called Michael Angelo Taylor's Act). I
am also a Surveyor to the Commissioners of Pavements,
by which means I know that leave to erect that balcony
was applied for to the Commissioners by the deceased
Mr. Maurice, and granted; and I considered the power
vested in those Commissioners to grant such permission,
was a virtual repeal of that clause of the Building Act
which prohibited the erection of such projections. That
balcony extended about awe feet eight inches beyond
the exterior surface of the front wall.

The COTIONEK—Does the Building Act direct you,
as Di-.liict Su ve)or, to survey or interfere with the
roofs of buildings ? • •
The Witness—No; except they 01'011 be eqvered with
stone, slates, iron, or lead, and then they shall not be
covered with tarpaulins pitched.
The Conosta—Have the goodress to explain this ?
Tn vitness prOcteded—l did in f•ct surt-r;ntend the
ertvi•li of this toot. I wish the word is snperiivend"
to he struck out. I visite., the bolding limn time to
time, and. w!.en coutpl tvd, saw that thepa:apvs wered
up according to the Act. I was present when
ihe proprietors ay' lied to the Magistrates for permis-
sion .0 open the Theatre, and in answer to questions
front the Magistr.ites, I stated that it had been erected
in cool°, not y with the provisions of the Wadding Act.
The roof was then on. I understood um hilig abort iron
tools. I made no inquiry to ascertain if it were safe for
the public, except as District Surveyor. I %sits in the
The.rie the night it opened until about ten o'cl. ck. I
saw it about two hours after it fell.

Mr. M,Catin—You have stated as your opinion, that
the fall of the Theatre was the consequence of suspend-
ing weights to the roof. You saw the weight previous
to the M nday night. Did you state to any person your
apprehension of danger from that circumstance?—No.
I was never called upon to give any opinion on the
subject; I never observed any thing dangerous.
And yet you have stated that, in your opinion, those
weiAlits cau-ed the fall of the building. Did you give
notice to the proprietors of any probable danger?—
No; because I thought the building altogether to be in
very able hands; I mean, understanding that it was
under Mr. Whitwell's superintendence. PAIL of the
slating of the roof was taken off after receiving the
licence, and replaced. I can only account for the cir
cutnstance of putting on the slates imperfectly, by the
anxiety of the proprietors to obtain the licence on a cer
tarn day. (It was necessary that the building should be
covered in before the application for a licence could be
made, as we understood the witness.)

By EIILL—IIad the putting on or takirg off of
the slate-, the election of the balcony, of any thing
eke that you Law done to the *Ails, or the upper part
of the roof, any thing to do with this accident ?—N.,ne
v‘h,tever._

(The witness having been etamined respecting the
state of the walls still staging after the accident, woke
of the south wall, which, in his opinion, ought to be
pulled down.)
Mr. HILL—Did you see any attempt made to pull
it down ?

Witness—l did, by two sets of men,of 30 or 40 ach,
with ropes. It resisted the attempt. A portion of it
was s,nce obliged to be taken clow n with pick-axes.--
Three of the walls !mai, g withivood the fall it the
soot, and the resistance of which I have spoken, all c.ai-
firm me in my opinion of the stability of the building.
I consider that the front wall had been the weakest;
and I think the various openings in it may have con-
tributed w produce that weakness; but I consider that
the wall was still sufficiently strong.
By Mr. Put.LEN—Then, why should the front wall
have fallen, and the other tree remain ? One wall
must inevitably base fallen from the roof going in ;
and this, being the weakest gave way.
By Mr. HILL—You have spoken of the various
openings in the front wall (which fell), pray, were there
more openings in it than in the back which stood ?
Quite the contrary; there were more openings in the
back wall. The wail which would give way was that,
of cnuise, which was situated nearest to the greatest
proportion of the weight suspended•from the roof.
(Fur fully two tours more the witness was kept under
examination of a nature so diffuse and unimportant,
that we deem its insertion unnecessary. Nxarly four
hours were consumed in eliciting the evidence above
eetailed.)
Mr. James Wellington, of Bristol, roof contractor,
stated, that Mr. Barlow, of Dowgre Wharf is his
agent in London, and he procured him the ord^r for
the roof of the Brunswick Theatre. The bars of the
roof I manufactured for the Theatre were 3i inches
wide by 3.B!hs thick,and every fourth rafter was 4 inches
wide by 3 Bths thick, and tie rye beam of the same thick-
ness; there were a great number of those beams. In
our usual tools the struts are composed of several bars
rivitted together, 2 inches wide by 3.Bths in thick-
ness. The struts for the to:1f of this Theatre were three
bars rivitted together, three inches wide; and the ratters
of the Theatre were three feet, one inch apart. There-
fore the relative sttength of the roof of the Brunswick
Theatre was greater than our ordinary roofs, and the
width of the iron much greater; and considering our
ordinary roofs fully capable of carrying any weight
which was likely to be placed upon that of the Bruns-
'wick Theatre, we di.l not think it necessary to examine
it. I am of opinion, being ten years a manufacturer of
wrought iron roofs, that it was capable of bearing a
ton, of toh and bait per snare foot. I don't meant or
Conteinplate bei,,g placed upon the tye-
beams. I hold certificates in my band from various
.Companies is here I have erected cast iron roofs, which
have never fallen or any accident occurred to them.—
I put up aloof in Bristol over the Gas Works 530 feet
long by 47 feet wilts; that has been put up seven years.
By Mr. Hzic.—Nuneof the roofs ever tumbled down,
because no weight was put upon the tye-beams.
- ty the Costosza-1 Cut pry-roofs upon a cast iron
wail-plettistalpieces'abOor four feet long, dove-tailed
together, so that it forms a complete piece upon the wall
plate; *Rai plate.was firmly embedded in mortar.
By Mrj-WCIAIm (Juror).—This- roof was put up the
same as the other roofs to which I have given evidence.
I provided for the mut span by an extra strength ot

iron, in conformity with the mem in building, of
stronger thanAtrong enough. I never' gave any consent
or sanction, dir'ect4 or indirectly, to hang any weights
to the roof, to theproprietors of this the'atie. The 'qui.
lky of the iron is good; Welsh iron was used in this.
roof; such 'is genetally used and anroved in moll
making: The weight of a wooden IN of to cover the
same building, would, to the best of my belief, be more
thin double that of an iron one. ' °

By~Ms. LAIDLAY (Juror)-Mr. Maurice, Mr.. Ca-
ruthers, or any person from them, never made any
application to me, or to any agent of mine, with rry
knowledge, to know if they might hang any pendant
weight to the tye-beams of the roof. Mr. Barlow pro.
tested against weights ' being attached to the roof
strongly.
Mr. John Barlow gave corrobative testimony.
In his examina:ion by Mr. HlLL—Mr.Whittvell sub.
siquently expressed to me his opinion, that the weight,
were extremely dangerous. In my opinion, the powers
of expansion and contraction of the roof, from the!
various degrees of temperature to which it can have
been expowd, cannot account for the accident. It is rot
possible for the variation f temperature to which this
roof has been exposed, to have been so great as the like
variation in the roofs over gas houses, because I have
'seen the rye-beams of those roofs enveloped in fl .mes
for a short time, without injury.
Some conversation arose as to the course of evidence.
Mr. PULLED intimwed he would call Mr. Carruthers,
and two or three workmen, on AID 'iday next; and at
half past four o'clock the inquiry was adjourned until
nine o'clock on Monday morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.