Star.
London, England, 1827-06-01 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

OLD COURT.
These Sessions commenced yesterday Morning, be:
fore the LORD Meson and City Officers. The pre-
siding Judges were. Mr. Justice liotaiova arid „Mr.
Baron Hutt.ocit. , • -
Joshua -13oggis, aged 28, stood indicted for. stealing,
in the dwelling-house of Jobn Butcher, four Bank-notes
.0 the value of lit each, his property. Mr. C. Pent-
? Ara stated the elite.
From the esideace it appeared. that the prisoner,
,was employed at the proseentot's house, Tindall.
place, Islington. on the 6th of June, 1825, to varnish
some furniture. A pocket-hook containing the flours.
charged, was left by the prosecutor on the mantelpiece
of his chamber ;•no person but the prisoner and a for-.
male servant wasin the house on the day named. - The
prisoner didisot finish his work, and should have gone
to the house to do so, on *he next day ; but he had
never since been there, and left his working tools.
The prosecutor received the notes frost his bankers,
and one of the 101. notes was passed by the prisoner to
hatter in Holborn, on the name- day that it had been
-stolen : the indentity of the note was proved by the,
number, and by a boy, who went from the hatter's
shop to a neighbour's to get it changed. where he wrote
his master's name on it: that boy knew the prisoner
befr-

IClfe. .
Mr. CLARICiON, for the prisoner, strictly cross-exa-
mined the witnesses, particularly the female sexisant,,
as to whether any other person had been at the house
of her master on the day the notes were stolen; but
she was positive there was not, and also that the pri•
soner said he should return, the next day• tqlsuitili

work.
Several witnesses were called to give therciefebtssirl a
character..
Mr, Baron Hut.t.oci, in sutriening tip, said' that the
guilt of the prisoner Wouldgreatly depend on the credit
they gave to the testimony of the hatter's boy.
The Jory found the prisoner ,Gpitrib.lant recommended
hitticorseeercy.
Dryean, aged 18, was indicted for stealing
the dwelling-house of David Haley, 351. and st‘ierit
articles of wearing apparel. The pi isoner was employ eck
to nurse a sick child at the house of the prosecutor;
and in, the absence ;of his wife took the property
charged to have bees stoles: The evidence was such'
as kit no reasonable doubt of theguilt of the prisoner.-.-:
Verdict, Guilty.
William Fiume., 114 a% Fier, u waiter at Joy's Hotel,
Covent-gat den, was indicted for Stealing from the dwel-
tittliciuse of his employer; Mr. Robert Jot', several era
• of meaning opOatol. the property of Evelyn
, Waddington had apartment}
y s Hotel; he had gone out of town and left the
petty in qtastiin in his apartments. The case * •
clearly proved against the prisoner.—Verdict, Guikp
stealing- under 40s. • • s*g '
Richard alias William Peters. aged 21, printer, tr •
found guilty cif stealing a pocketbook. value 2s. a
sentenced to be transported for the term 'of his natural
life.—The RISORDIR observed, that out 'of the 80 ca
for trial on the London side, no less than *2B were of
this description of street robberies. knurl understood
that the prisoner was an 61 old hand.". I. ,
.Z4E,W COURT.
John Ford was indicted for stealing i coit;the pro.,
•psrty of Frederick Henry Pratt. The prosecutor is a
matker at a billiard. room in Brydges-street, Covent.'
garden. As be was going into the house, he met the
prisoner with the coat on hit arm. Be followed him
about 20 yards, and then asked him where he got the
coat? The prisoner said he met a person who told him
to go and ask for Mr.Jones's coat, and that a carpenter
in the house gave it to him. it was proved in evidence
that no person of the name of Jones was coanected with
the billiard-rooms —Verdict, Guilty.
Thomas Smith was indicted. for stealing a truss.of
bay, the property of William Welch, and Christopher
Seidl for receiving the same, knowing it to have
Ibift stolen.
Mr. Welch lives at Southwell, and the prisoner
Smith was his waggoner. Smith, and ,a boy nanied
Tomkins, were driving a waggon to town •laden with
hay, and they stopped at the Swan, at Bayswater, where
the prisoner is ostler.' Tomkins removed the tarpaulin
and pat down a truss of hay to Sewell, who carried it
into the stable. This was perceived by two police offs.
cers, and both the prisoners were taken into custody.
The person to whom the hay was sold at Paddington
wharf, returned a note that he bad received the full
quantity of hay, and paid for it as such. The boy Tom-
lkius proved, that when he and Smith came to the Swart,
at Bayswater, the latter told him to chuck a bit of hay.
down, wbichhe did, and the ostler took it up. He could.
not tell the quantity of hay the bit contained, but it wge
'tied up like the rest in the waggon.
The landlord of the Swan, at Bayswater, and thp
patrol of the same district, gave Sewell an excellent'
character. •
Mr. Sergeant Artesia summed up the evidence, frit
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the Jury returned a verdict of Gears against both*,
prisoners. r •
The Learned Judge said, that this offence Was *ft of
every day's occurrence in the suburbs of the mintopolis,'
and therefore required exemplary punishment when a
clear case of conviction was established. The prisoners
were then severally sentenced to be transported for seven
years, accompanied by au order that theybe marked to
be sent beyond the seas.
A CONTUMACIOUS THIRD.

johx Burchell, aged 34, was indicted for stealing a
gold ring, value 9s. the property of Job■ 'Forney; and
John Austin was charged with having received the same,
knowing it to have been stolen.
The wife of the prosecutor stated, that she lives in
I King's-road, Sloane-square, Chelsea. On the day named
in the indicttnent,Burchell requested to go into her room
to use the pen and ink to make a memorandum, which