Star.
London, England, 1821-04-25 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Yesterday, C. Crawley and T. Head, two boys,
were indicted for stealing a pelisse, value £2, the
property of Charlotte Thomas, widow, from the per-
son of Anne Blunt ; and Elizabeth Ward, alias Bray,
was also indicted for receiving the same, knowing it
to be stolen.

Anne Blunt, a little girl, aged 13, deposed, that in
the evening of the 22d of February last, she was sent
by her mistress to take home a pelisse to Mrs. Thomas,
at Islington, and when at the road leading towards
Sadler 's Wells, she saw the prisoners, Crawley and
Head, watching her. She hurried, and lost sight of
them ; but they had, it appeared, gone round by a
shorter way, for they met her just by the New River
Head, and snatching the pelisse from her hand, ran
away with it.
A Pulice Officer stated, that having heard of the
robbery, and having had a description of the offenders,
he apprehended the two male prisoners at the house
of the prisoner Ward, in Frying.pan-alley, Islington.
The pelisse was in the room. The two boys were
sitting by the fireside, with their coats off, and sing-
ing a flash song ! The woman, when questioned
concerning the pelisse, declared that the boys had
just brought it in.
Crawley and Head were found Guilty ; and Ward
was acquitted.
The CoMMoN SERJEANT asked if these lads were
known ?—The Police Officers stated they were well
known ; Head (who is only fourteen years of age)
having been six months in confinement, under sen-
tence of death ; and Crawley having been several
times tried in this Court.

The COMMON SERJEA NT said, they must both leave
the country for life.—They conducted themselves
with the most hardened indifference.

Mary Simmonds, aged 17, and Sarah Evans, aged
IS, two good-looking Cyprians, were indicted for
stealing a pocket-book, and one £3O, one £lO, and
ten El Bank-notes, from the person of W. Sallett.
The prosecutor was a Boatswain's Mate, belonging
to the school-ship Younghusband, lying in the River,
land on the day stated in the indictment he came on
shore, and received £5O in the notes above described,
at a banker's, near the Exchange. He had got a
little tipsey towards evening, and left a public-house
where he had been drinking, in Whitechapel, and
went to a chandler's shop to buy some tobacco.—
While he was paying his money the prisoner Evans
came in, and accosting him with—"" How d'ye do,
sweetheart ?" invited him to go up stairs to her
apartment. When he got up he found the other pri-
soner in the room, partly undressed. Evans having
introduced him, quitted the room. Simmonds then
said, that was not her room, and requested him to
accompany her to another house, in George-yard, an
obscure place in the neighbourhood, well suited for
the purposes of plunder. Here he went up stairs,
-but had not been there many minutes before they
were joined again by Evans. After some conver-
sation he sat down by the side of Evans, and while
he was sitting there the other prisoner came behind
him, and putting her hand over his shoulder, in a
very dexterous manner snatched his pocket-book
from his inside coat-pocket, with which she ran
down stairs. He immediately pursued her, but she
escaped. The prisoners were apprehended about ten
days afterwards.
The prosecutor underwent along and severe cross-
examination, but did not vary in his testimony. He
admitted that he was drunk, but said he was not
insensibly so.—The Jury acquitted the prisoners.

Smith, who was capitally convicted at last King-
ston Assizes, died yesterday in Horsemonger-lane jail:
~tief and disease put a period to an existence which,
it was expected, would have terminated differently.
Saturday morning, as some labourers were going
through Globe-fields, Mile-end, they found the body
of a woman, between 40 and 50 years of age, with a
great discolouration all over her person, supposed_ to
have been struck dead by the lightning which took
place on the evening of Good Friday.
Yesterday morning a fine male child was found in
the Surrey Canal, near the Lord Wellington Tavern,
in the Greenwich-road, which, from its appearance,
is supjosed to have been murdered. It was con-
veyed to a neighbouring tavern, and a Coroner's
Inquest has been summoned to inquire into the cause
of its death.

DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A HANOMAN•Sa•
turday se'nnight, at twelve o'clock, Michael Shaw
was executed at the drop, behind York Castle, for
burglary. This unfortunate man was in the fifty-
seventy year of his age, and has left a wife and a nu-
merous family to lament his fate. He prayed very
devoutly during the whole of the time he was upon
the drop. At a quarter past ones William Brown,
aged 23, who at the last Assizes was convicted of a
gross assault and highway robbery, was executed on
the new drop erected near the City Jail, opposite to
the Old Bailhill, York. Previously to the culprit
being brought to the gallows, the executioner sus-
pended the cord, with apparent glee, he exclaiming
to the populace, " Some of you come up, and I'll
try it!" When he unfortunate man was conducted
to the drop, the executioner, in a bungling manner
(being in a state of intoxication), placed the cap over
the culprit's face, and attempted several times to put
the rope round the culprit's netki-but was unable :
he missed the unfortunate man's lie* with the noose
every time that he tried. The cap Was each time re-
moved from the malefactor's face, who stared wildly
round upon the spectators. Horror and detestation
seemed to pervade every breast; and there were cries
of " Shatne, shame! he's drunk r Mr. RYAN, the
humane Governor of the Jail,- much affected, ad-
vanced to the front of the drop, and entreated the
populace to preserve silence, which they did imme-
diately. The executioner, however, was not able to
perform his duty, without the assistance of the jailor
and one of the Sheriff's officers. No sooner was the
unfortunate sufferer launched into eternity, than the
executioner was assailed by the populace with shouts
of execration, and several called out, " Hang him--
hang Jack him--
hanghim--
hangetch—he's drunk l" &c.

GanzNoels, APRIL 17.—0 n Saturday morning
the stable of Mr. John Dunlop, of Glen, in this neigh-
bourhood, was found to have been broken open, and
a fine mare, on which Mr. Dunlop usually attended
drill as one of the Yeomanry of his district was taken
out, conducted to a little glen about 200 yards be-
yond the house, and therricilled with a hatchet.