Star.
London, England, 1828-09-19 00:00:00

Before the COMMON SiNGIANT.

Robert Jones was indicted tar stealing a gold watch
value 124 a chain, seal, a cameo ring, and various other
articles, on the 19th of June last, property in the pos-
session of Robert Cooper ; and Georgiana Bagsier, a
mulatto of prepossessing appearance, was charged with
feloniously receiving the same, knowing them to be
stolen.

Mr. PHILLIPS was for the male prisoner, and Mr.
ADOLPHIIii for Bagster.
Mr. Cooper is a pawnbroker in the Borough, and de-
posed that the prisoner Jones bad been in his service;'
he also identified the stolen property, which bad been
pledged with two pawnbrokers. It appeared that the
prisoner bad cohabited with Bagster, and when the offi-
cers went to apprehend her, be was in her house, but
contrived to make his escape. The connexion between
them was clearly established, and the female prisoner
bad acknowledged having had some of the property in
her possession, and wished to compromise the affair be.
fore it was brought before the Magistrates.
Cross-examined by Mr. Anommos—Did not know
that the female prisoner visited Jones while he was in
witness's service, nor would witness have suffered it.
A witness named Goddard, who knew the prisoner
Jones, depo4ed that he pledged the ring and other
articles for him. The female (Barter) had lived at
N 0.17, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane, but had gone by
the name of Thornton.

Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—Had frequently'
heard a witness named Smith call the female prisoner
Mrs. Thornton. Mr. Cooper had told witness that be
was afraid he could not convict Jones unless be admitted
Bagster as an evidence against him.
Irs. Grain, the Lady to whom the watch belonged,
which bad been pledged with Mr. Cooper, identified
her property.
A letter, from the prisoner Jones was put in and read,
in which be confessed to Mr. Cooper that he bad taken
the Watch out of his shop.
Mr. Cooper re-esamined—The prisoner is my cousin;
I have no spite against him, but I do not like to be robbed.
- While the sbopman of Mr. Cooper was in the witness
box, his master stood by his side, and attempted to
prompt him, upon which Mr. Adolphus rose in a very
indignant manner, and told him he would have him
turned out of Court if he did not behave better.
The officer who searched the lodging of the female
prisoner deposed, that he found some of the stolen pro.
petty in her drawers, which she said was her own.
Jones, in his defence, said that his cousin had allowed
him to make use of articles pledged at his shop, and
what had been found would have been restated. Mr.
Cooper permitted him also to take money out of the till,
piovided he restored it, and articles taken in this way
were entered is a book. Jones then called a witness
named Gray, who deposed that his house keeper had
mentioned to him that she was present when the p ironer
bought the cameo ring for 12,.
By Mr. Anocraus—The prisoner was usually well-
dressedband had frequently valuable jewellery about him.
Several persons gave the prisoner Jones a good cha-
racter.
The landlady of the house where the female prisoner
resided always considered her to be a respectable woman.
The Learned SERGEANT, in summing up, told the
Jury what the Taw corisideieJ to be a prort that a party
who had received property knew it to be stolen. It was
not, of course, necessary that the person should have
made any direct inquiries about it; but it was left to
the common sense of the Jury to say whether the
female prisoner, from all the circumstances, could
have had a conviction that the property found on
her did not belong to Jones?
V edict—Guilty against both.
WillionsFriur and itoloart French, hackney-coachmen,'
were inclictect for stealing two bos-coats„ value 4/. in
the parish of St. Pancras, on the 4th of August last. 1,
Tor coats were stolen from a Gentleman's carriage
Ishii* the coachman was asleep wasting for his mas-
ter; but there was no evidence to prove that they
wile stolen by the prisoners, and the Jury conse-
quently acquitted them.
Jane Gibbons, a young female of very decent appear-
ance, was indicted for swai% a silk purse containing
some money, the property of another young I male,
named Collins. It appeared that both parties were
members cf the same u profession." and that they met

one evening in the public room of a house of general
mom for ladies of their class, but which its proprietor
denonatrated 64 a hotel." While they were there; the
prosecuti ix went up stirs, but left her purse in tl►e par-,
tour, where the prisoner remained. Having occasion,
however, for the purse, she sent the servant down stairs
for it, and it was then discovered that both the pure
and the prisoner had disappeared. The latter, however,
retuned it. the course of the evening, and was accused
by the picoecutrix of having taken the purse. She de•
vied the charge, and insisted on being searched by an
officer, who was accordingly sent for, and oar searching
the prisoner found three half-crowns, a few shillings,
and sonic half-pence, upon her, some of which the pro-
secutrix thought had belonged to her. The purse was
not found upon her, nor did it appear that it had ever
been in her posse,sion.
The pi isoner, in her defence, denied that she had
taken either the purse or the r►.oney, and stated that the
pat lour which bad been spoken of was open to every
one, and that when the prosecutrix left it to go up
stairs, she (the prisoner) was left in_ the dark with se-
veral other persons, who had every opportunity of
taking the purse without observation, and of escaping
with it, as persons were continually going in and out of
the room. She insisted that the money found upon her
was her own, and that there was no ground in the charge
which had been brought against her.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict Not Guilty.
Augusta /romaine was indicted for stealing a coun-
terpane, a blanket, and a few other articles, the property
of Anne Hunt, at whose hoJte the prisoner and her
child' en lodged.
The prosecutrix proved the loss of the articles, and a
pawnbroker stated that some person had pledged them
at his shop ; but he would not pretend to :near that it,
was the prisoner. The officer, boa ever, who took the
prisoner i..tu custody, produced the duplicates, which
were found upon her.
The prisoner, whose appearance betokened the deepest
distress, and who it was evident had once seen better
days, put in a written defence, in which she stated that
she was the daughter of a distinguished Naval Officer,
and the wife of a person who had once moved in the
higher circles of life, but whose fortune had been wasted
by a long and protracted law-suit, which had now re-
duced him to extreme poverty. She did not attempt
to deny that she had pawned the articles in question.
but declared that she did so with the intention of re-
deeming them again, and not with a view ci robbing
the prusecut: ix. She had been for some time in expec-
tation of receiving some money from her husband, who
was abroad, but as it did not arrive so soon as she
expect-d, she was driven to pawn the property of her
landlady to prevent herself and children from starving;
but at the time she did so she had no doubt but that she.
should have been supplied with money in sufficient time
to have redeemed them, and to have restored them again
to their rightful owner.
The Jury found her Guilty, but recommended her
very strongly to mercy on account of her misfortunes
and evident distress.

The hop-plantations at Whimple, near Exeter, now
present a beautiful and luxuriant appearance, the crop
being uncommonly heavy, and the bine having been,
throughout the pores' of its growth, unchecked, and
free from insects. !'he hops are particularly large and
fair, and if the weather prove favourable, picking will
commence in a few days. It is confidently expected that
the produce of this season will be of sOpesier quality.
Saturday John Webster, mate of the ship Sumner,
of Yarmouth, was committed by William Wright, Esq.
for trial at the next North umbetland Sessions, charged
with stealing part of the Captain's clothes, his watch,
and about 91. iu money.
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Sunday night the residence of Mr. Isaac Laurence,
Cottage-grove, Mile-end-road, was beset by a gang of
burglars. The family were alarmed, and the thieves
made a percipitate retreat over the garden wall; a pis-
tol, loaded with slugs, was fired at them from the
'house. The villains left behind them several imple-
ments of housebreaking.
ROBBERY.—Monday, about noon, a woman, who
called at the house of Dr. Graham, in George-street,
Croydon, under the pretence of offering lace for sale,
Carried off, during the temporary absence of a servant,
a basket of silver plate of considerable value. She was
'traced to a public hou-e, where she had been drinking
with a female and three men, and the whole gang were
pursued as far as Streatham, wl.e e all trace of them
was lost.

The widow of the cee'srated DrsGALL has addressed
a letter to the PAtii Juurnals, denying that there existed
any ground for imputing atl e tical doctrines to her
husband. The reason, s esa)s, why he did not receive
at his death the consola toss of Christianity was, that
for five days previouly, and up to the period of his dis-
solution, he was totally deptived of mason. She quotes
various passages from his works. for the purpose of
proving the deep conviction he felt of the existence of
an alt wise CREATOR.

ELIZABETiIb daughter of Sr. JOIES BOUCHIZItt and
wife of OLlArta Cams witt.c. was a woman of an enlarged
understanding and an elevated spirit. She was an ex-
cellent housewife, and as capable of descending to the
kitchen with propriety, as she was of acting in her ex-
alted station. It has been asserted, that she as deeply
interested herself in steering the helm, as she had r ften
done in turning the spit; and that she was as constant
a spur to her husband in the career of his ambition, as
she had been to her servants in their culinary employ-
ments t certain it is, that she act d a more prudent part
as Prct Ttress than HINRIETTA did as Queen, and that
she educated her children with as much ability as she
governed her family with address. She survived her
bu.band 14 yeats,and died the Bth of Oztober,l672.
It appears that Cadoni, the well known mountebank,
has not had legerdemain enough to preserve himself
from the fangs of the law. At the conclusion of Paisley
fair, Cadoni finding his ordinary tricks beginning to
fail, resorted to the experiment of a lottery as a means
of raising the wind, the prizes of which were a boll of
meal or &Vs. and a fat pig or 40s. The bait took, and
the shillings posited in. A bat her gained the meal, and
the prize ticket for the pig was drawn by a female.
Untirtunately, however, the woman happened to be in
debt, and her creditors became so clamorous for a share
of the lucky windfall, that she was obliged to divulge
the truth that she was employed by Cadoni's landlady
to be the drawer of the prize, and to psake sure of the
mountebank knuwing her, on holding her hand up for
a prize she was to wipe her mouth with her apron.
Tois was done, and she immediately got the ticket en.
cirded with be words "the pig." She then mounted
the stage, proclaimed her good fortune, and preferred
the money in cash, which she got, but, according to
previous concert, it was all given back, except ss. for
her tremble. The barber who got the meal ticket was
also foetid to have acted a similar part in the deception.
The parties having been congregated before the Ma-
gistrates, Cadoni was fined in 151. of ninety days' con-
finement in Bridewell, his landlady was amerced in
3L 13s. 61 and the 'poor barber was fined in 15%

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