Star.
London, England, 1811-03-15 00:00:00

WINCHESTER. ASSlZES.—(Continued).

The following were the most interesting trials at
the Crown Bar :
Richard Edsall and Samuel Zlendt, for breaking into
the banking-house (being part of the dwelling-house)
of Mr. N. Waller, of this city.
The prosecutor stated, that at ten o'clock on the
night of the 26th of December, he left his banking-
house, at which time every thing was secure ; he left
a variety of notes in the room ; among them was a
hundred-pound note of the Bank of England, which
he had that day received from the Rev.' Mr. Chap-
man ' • he also received a £lO note of the Thornbo-
rouglt Bank, another of the Wallingford Bank, and
another of the Glamorganshire Bank, which he had
on that day received from Mr. James Coates, and on
which he bad written Mr. Coates's name : those notes
be could identify. Between seven and eight o'clock
on the following morning he was called, and informed
his banking-room had been broken into . on entering
it he discovered a hole in the wall under the window,
lied on searching the premises he missed property to
the amount of £lOOO.
Stephen Lavender, a Bow-street Officer, stated,
that on the night of the 29th of December he went
to Mr. Clinker's house, and apprehended the prisoner
Edsall, in a back parlour, and inquired of him if ,
the box up stairs belonged to hiin ? He answered, it I
did. In it was found a large amount in notes and'
cash, among which was a bank bill for £lOO, which
Ile kit in the hands of the Mayor, who lodged it, with
the other property, for safety, in a banking-house in
London, having first endorsed it, and sealed the paper
,with his seal. When the prisoner (Edsall) was ap-
, prehended, he was;,asked how he came by the pro-
' petty, and whether he found it ? The prisoner said
" he was not so lucky."—Benett was taken into cus-
tody the same evening.
William Druitt, Esq. the Mayor, said he received
the one hundred pound note front the last witness, and
retained it in his own possession until he produced it
in-Court. ,
The Rev. George Chapman said he paid a Bank-
, ei-England note into the banking-house of Messrs.
. Waller, for £loo,'on•the day of the robbery, which
• Ape identified from the date and dumbei.
,
Mr. Robert Ballard, a partner in the Bank, went
with the officer to the house of Mr..Charker, when
E _hell was apprehended ; on him was found a seal,
which Mr. B. identified as belonging to the banking-
house.
Mr. James Coates proved that the notes marked
with his name was the same which he paid into the
' hands of Messrs. Waller, and which Mr. Waller en-
dorsed in his presence.
.•' John Edmonds, a labourer, said he was going to
work between six and seven o'clock in the morning of
the :Mb of December, and passing by Mr. Waller's,
be observed a hole in the wall, on which he alarmed
1 the family. The prisoners made no defence.
Bennett was acquitted ; Edsall was found guilty,
I and received sentence of death; but en the petition
) \ of the Prusecutor, he was reprieved before the Judges
' • left the city.
Ihjh Killday for an assault, with an intent to com-
mit a rape ,on the person ci Mary Briglst, of Yar-1
month, in the Isle of Wight, spinster.
The prosecutrix is 22 years of age, daughter ofMr.
• Bright, butcher, at Yarmouth. On Saturday the 15th
e of :scpternber, between four and five in the evening,
11 as she was returning from Neweort to Yarmouth, on
I ikiney Common she met the prisoner, who asked her
bow she did ? He teen caught her violently round the
waist, and dragged her about 50 yards out of the road
under the declivity of a hill, among broom and bushes

—she made great resistance, and screamed, on which
tin prisoner threatened to take her life if she made a
ass se—be dieu seized her by dot thriAt; threw Ler on

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