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London, England, 1817-11-01 00:00:00

OLD IMMIX SESSIONS, OCTOBER 31.'

Mann Hills, 'aged 19, was indicted for stealing a
pelisse, spencer, and other articles, the property of
Sophia Hazlehutst. He was also indicted for bur-
-1 eriously entering the dwelling-house of Ann Haale-
buret, and stealing thence the said articles. The of-
fence was alleged to have taken place on the Ist of
October, at seven o'clock at night. It appearing,
however, there was sufficient day-.ight to distinguish
a face, the charge of burglary was abandoned. Be-
sides, the street-door being left open, there was nol
breaking in, which consul utes a burglary. The pro-1
perty stolen was stated to be worth 425. 6,1.
Mr. Justice DALLAS charged the Jury, and consi-
dered that the value had been screwed up to the
highest pitch, there being a reward in the ease. This
was a fact worthy of attention, and he suggested the
propriety of their examining the clothes themselves,
and jodging about the value.
Verdict—Geary of stealing to the value of 395.
Mr. Justice DALLAS •••." Gentlemen, you have con-
sidered your verdict, but let me now say I have never,
in the course of my life, seen a clearer case."
JohaThomas, aged 20, was indicted (or stealing a
sheep, value 303. the property of Wm. Wilkinson.
The evidence was as follows :—Mr. Wilkinson had'
la a field belonging to Mr. Kemp, on the lath of
'October, a number of sheep, which he had carefully
counted over. Oa the morning of the 18th of that
month the shepherd found one of the sheep gone, and
soca after saw some entrails belonging to a sheep.
About three fields from the place where the sheep had
'been placed, the prisoner WAS found with three-quar-
ters ot a sheep, which were quite warm, and w hicli
lie accounted tor by saying, he had found them in a
ditch.. The three quarters were contrasted with the
gin, and were found exactly to correspond. The
head of the sheep was found attached to the skin,
and the meat was very badly cut up. The skin and
she head were found in a water-pipe, near the field,
and she prisoner was present when the meat and skin
were reunified, and found to correspond. The place
where the prisoner alleged he lived was searched, and
31s. in silver, and in a boa were found ad 3 is. in sil-
vera-and a £1 nuts in a pocket book, besides the heart
and liver of a sheep. The skin was identified by the
prosecutor horn some particular masks on it. There
.was some meat on the skin, and this being contrasted
with the three quarters, exactly fitted.
Two witnesses were called to charactcr,both know-
ing him for the last three months as an industrious
'molt man.
Mr. Justice Etna summed up, and commented
pretty much on the circumstance ot his saying he
*bad found the meat in a ditch. He Iclt them to judge,

whether the? could possibly have any doubt of the
prisoner's guilt. Verdist—i-Guilty, Death.
Samuel Wood, aged 45, was indicted for stealing 26
yards of cloth, the property of Juhu Slate, privately
in his shop. The evidence of the theft was complete,
but the privately stealing not being mode out, the
Jury found him Guilty, but not privately.
Wm. Woad, aged 13, Molnar Randall, 16, andno-
ma: Shielr, '23, were capitally indicted for stealing a
coat privately in the shop of John Grant, near Cran-
bourne-alley. The charge of private stealing was
not made out, in consequence of the coat hanging so
near the shop door that any person passing in the
street might have easily removed it. The offence
was committed on the 22d of October, and was found
on the person of Word by a Constable. wh<i followed
him to a pawnbroker's shop, where Wood offered it
for six shillings, but the pawnbroker, seeing his
youth, refused to give him any thing on it. The
boy at the some time was followed by the other two
prisoners, who appeared to be his associates. He
WAS apprehended by the C )nstable, as were also the
other two. Wood, in defence, said he was passing
through the alley, when a man passing by threw the
j coat on his shoulder and ran off. The other two said
' they met him, and he asked them to go to a pawn.
broker's shop with him, but he did not tell them
what he was going to do in that shop. Several per-
sons spoke to character.
Mr. Justice PARK summed up and stated, that
though Wood alone had the property, yet if he was
guilty of felony, if they were aiding and abetting,
they were equally guilty. The character given to,
Spiels was worthy of notice, and the conduct of the
pawnbroker in refusing ,o take the coat from a boy so
young as the prisoner Wood, deserved the highest
cournendati•ln, and would, he sincerely hoped, be
'unwed by all in that profession.
Tee Jury consulted some time and returned a ver-
dict of—Guilty, but not privately, and recommen-
ded them all to mercy on account of their youth and
karat( good character.
John Griffith:, with whom the prisoner Spiels had
been as servant, expressed his willingness to take him
back again to service if the Court would permit.
The Judges stated that that offer should be men-
tioned in the proper (porter, though at the same time
street robberies and pilfering in shops were offences
too common of late to induce sanguine hopes.
Elisabeth iltylar, aged 30, was indicted for stealing
seven sheets, value £3, and other articles of wearing
apparel, the property of Elizabeth Paget, in a dwel-
ling-house. The prowler lodged in the prosecutrix's
hot.se for a fortnight, during which the property
charg.d in the indictment was abstracted. Suspecting
'the prisoner, she turned her away, and did not intend
to take any other redress; but on further information,
she went with a Mrs. Powell, to Drury-lane,. where
she found part of her property in a salesman's shop.
The salesman being called, stated, that the priso-
ner came to his shop, where he bought from her a
few duplicates, and gave her 7s. for them. He went
to the pawnbroker's shop and got the property speci-
fied in the duplicates. The prisoner was taken to
Marlborough-street.
Mr. Justice DALLAS, in summing tip, considered
there could be no capital conviction here, as there
was no proof that the whole property was taken away
at once. She being in the bunse during a fortnight,
had thus the opportunity of pilfering day after day,
and was not liknly to do so. He also considered the
evidence so defective as related to her stealing at all,
that the Jury were bouud to acquit her.— Not Guilty.
Maas !Wiry, aged • 22, Mew Ride. 16. Joreith
Newels, 20, Mow Marti., 19, and Michael Hurley.,
19, were indicted for assaulting John TilWeliS on tbeo
highway, on the 13th of October, and stealing a
womb, value £5, from his person. The prosecutor,
going Lome to Stepney, was hustled as usual, aad
the watch pulled from his fob. The crime oas com-
mitted at Petticoat-lane, Whitechapel. Though there
was a watchman near the spot he did not eosin, in
consequence of which the Commissioners discharged
him. The prosecutor fully identified Daltry and
Martin. The whole traosaction did not occupy UM,
than two minutes. They were all apprehended on
the Wednesday following; and on the Monday week
after the robbery, on going to Lambeth-street Office,
he was shewn seven persons, out of whom he identi-
fied the five prisoners, in consequence of which the
other two were discharged. He was further con-
firmed in his opinion that they were the persons, be.
cause in ten minutes alter he saw them a short dis-
itance from him, and nearer Aldgate Church. The
officas of lonebeth-street corroborated his account
of having fired at once on the prisoners when in the
office. The description given of them at the office
I was so accurate, that the officers had not the slightest
difficulty in tracing them.
' Rule brought several respectable witnesses, who
gave him an excellent character. Daltry called a
witness to prove he was in bid health at the time,
from a wound in his thigh. Martin (a Jew) called
two, who said he was at home the evening before he
was apprehended. Hurley called two to character,
and the other denied the charge, but had no witnesses.
The evidence was then summed np by Mr. Justice
PAM He observed, that the trial had occupied the
Court for an unusual length of time, and was one of
the greatest importance, and particularly worthy of
the attention of the Jury. 'l'o the attempts made by
Daltry and Martin to prove an alibi, he directed the
attention of she Jury with great force, imploring
them to dismiss every feeling from their minds, but
those of the strictest justice, and to use the greatest
discsiinination. The Learned Judge concluded a
most oniniatiol and impartial charge, by pointing out
the shades of difference between the prisoners, consi-
dering the important nature of the cote as it related
to the public, and the unhappy young men them-
selves. The charge was finished at ten minutes after
live, when the Jury, alter consulting eleven minutes,
returned a verdict of Not Guilty against Rule and
Newton and finding Daltry, Hurley, and Martin,
Guiity—Death.
The verdict being declared, Rule and Newton were
recommitted un another indictment.

Yesterday the Bill of Indictment against Roll, the
chimneysweeper, of Somers' Town, for cruelty and
inhumanity to his apprentice buy, who was suffocated
in the flue ol a baker's oven in UIAOII-street, Sowers'
was thrown out by the Cupid Jury.
Yestrr'tay as Mr. STLFBA.III WAUGH r* of Bath, was
oisiong Krist•strees, 110r0u.91, he was hustled
by four ytulig lads, and ralmi c. e-. 7 in notes.

Pourt.

MANSION-HOUSE..—Mr. Jackson, of Artillery-street,
was summoned to answer the complain: of Mr. Wil-
liam Goddard, for refusing to take in change a seven
shilling gold piece of the legal weight and standard, a
few days since. The defendant, who is a bakpr, de-
nied that he had refused to take the coin in question.
lig merely hesitated under the impression that it was
light, moreover he was not at tl:e moment possessed
of change. This was decisive of the case, and the
complaint was about to be dismissed, when' Mr. God.'
dArd stated to Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER, who sat for the
Lord Mayor, that considerable inconvenience had
already arisen, and was still likely to exist with re-
gard to the seven shilling pieces. He resided in a
neighbourhood inhabited chiefly by working people,
to.l he was anxious to know whether a seven shilling
piece of full weight, and not defaced, could be re.
fused in payment? The MAGISTRATE said, certainly
not, but be did not sit to give opinions. Mr. Hos.'
!An said, it was a high rmsdemeanour to refuse the
King's legal coin. It was an offence, which if properly
substantiated, his Majesty's AttOrney General would
nut slightly pass over. The public, therefore, ought
to know the tact.

Pinvineor..--r-The Secretary to the Gas Light
Company was summoned to answer the complaint of
certain Members of the Society of " Fellowship Por-
ters of the City of London." The grievance of
which they complained, was, that the Gas Light
Company employed a number of persons about their
establishment, to the exclusion and prejudice of the
" Fellowship Porters of the City of London." Mr.
Edsall, the Secretary, replied, that the concern
merely engaged a few discharged soldiers and sailors,
who assisted in landing coals, and performing offices
about the manufactory. The MummaTis said, that
however laudable it was to employ those who had
been hitherto engaged in the service of their country,
yet here was a matter of, privilege that could net be
gut over. The Company therefore must, in the first
instance, employ the 66 Fellowship Porters," and
should they want further assistance, they would
have an opportunity to engage such other persons
As they thought proper. This line of duty, he said,
was imperative.
HATTON•GAenete..--Yesterday, a young man
named Jonathan Ogle, a sailor, came to this Office
and made the following extraordinary complaint to
the Magistrates s —That he had been stolen from his
parents out of St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, when
he was taken to be christened, and afterwards sold to
a sweep in Oxford-street, with whom he remained
five years, and then ran away and entered on board
a ship about eight yeas ago, having only just re-
turned from sea. He was anxious that the sweep
should be brought to answer from whom he bought
him, as he found himself very unhappy at not know-
ing who his parents or friends are ; from what little
recollection he had of them, he being. between six
and seven-years old at the time, they were respectable.
He was ordered a summons for the sweep to ittend.
M ARLBOROUOII-STREET—Major-General Jahn Pare,
of Montague-street, Bryanstone-square, charged Hwy
Boriari and Mary Carafried with stealing a quantity
of plate, value se4o, liaen, and books, his property.
It appeared by the statement of the General, that he
formerly occupied lodgings at the house of Mrs. 80.
stock, in the neighbourhood of Portman-square. He
had occasion to go abroad in August last, and su
much confidence did he place in the prisoner Bostock,
that although he knew her circumstances were rather
straitened than nourishing, he entrusted a box, con-
taining the propel ty stated to her care, until his re-
turn, and desired the woman to write to him if she
found her circumstances so much deranged as to re-
quire assistance. Sue, however, never did write, and
on the return of the General to town, at the begin-
ning of this week, he called at the house he had left
to take lodgings, and he slept there two nights. On
inquiring for the box containing the articles, Bostock
said it had been removed to a place of security, but
that it was under the bed of a lying-in lady. The
prosecutor not giving lull credit to this story, sent
his son to the house, when it was discovered that the
box was empty. The woman Campbell, it appeared,
had pledged the articles, which she had been accus-
tomed to do for Mrs. Bostock on other occasions,
and she was taken as an accessary after the tact—
Bostock stated, in her defence, that she was consi-
derably indebted to her landlord, for rent, taxes. and
money lent. He had persecuted her very much for
the last six months, and the consequence was, that
she was obliged to deliver up to him the lease of the
house, together with the furniture, on the condition
of his paying her 14s. a-week for taking care of the
premises. Her landlord was a tax-gatherer. He
had inn up a considerable bill . against her, whether
right or wrong she could not say, but it had the,
effect of driving her almost to madness. and to such
a state of distress, that, to preserve herself and chil-
dren from starvation, she was unwillNly forced to
act as she had done. One of her lodgers, a Colonelfil
owed her £44. ; she expected payment every day;
and at was la that hope she pawned the General's
property, thinking that she could redeem it before
his return to town. The General expressed his sur-1
anly in the receipt of five
ptise at her distress, knotting her to have been fre-
(m guineas per week for
her lodgings. He seemed te bring the charge against
tree with much unwillingness ; and she acknuvi hedged
her ingratitude with strung signs of repentance, con-
fessing that the prosecutor had been one of her best
had eualtled her to furnis;) her house ter the
reception of lodgers, and always behavcd towards
her in a most friendly and humane manner.

Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Lon-1
don H,ospital, in Whitechapel-road, on the body of
Miss Dt,vaasn, aged 21, who was teacbcr at a boar-
ding school in the vicinity of London. The deceAsed
on Wednesday had been on beard the Arundel West
Indianian, and returning in the evening with her
lister and brother-in-law, (Mr. and Mrs. Roper, of
Lambeth-street), in Fore-street, Limt.house, where
they are building an iron bridge, her foot slipped front
a double plank, and she fell into the water, from
which she was extricated in abaut 20 minutes, and
the resttscitory process was strenuously persisted in ;
but the vital spark had forsaken its frail tenement.
Mrs. It. convinces' the Jury that the circumstance
was purely accidental, the plank being in good con
dition, and there was the additional security of a stoat
iron hand-rail. Ycrditt--Accidental 'raga,