Star.
London, England, 1803-11-01 00:00:00

LAW IKTELLiGENCE.

Sittings appointed in Middlefez and London before
the Right Hcn.Enwsan Lord Eccsesolouosr,Lord
Chief Jullice,Bcc.in and after Michaelmas Term, llos.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCT. 3z.

LONDON.

SITTINGS NITOIC LORD zkLignsoacroas, MID • STSCIAL.II/11,

Of Mtlell/1:4T1.

His Lord(hip fat preeifely at nine o'clock, and diC
porld of fit cantos in the courfe of an hour. In five
of them the parties were net ready, and, therefore,
they were obliged to withdraw the records. One only
was tried, which is

LACY IL NUSBAILD AND ANOTNZI.

Mr. EISILINi, leading Connfel for the pletintif4
fisted, that his client was a ropemaker, and bad
brought this anion in order to recover the fm of
7591. a Bs. sd. which he claimed under the following
carcumliances :—Thefe parties were connefted !op.
titer is friendfleip, and were relations by marriage.
The defendant. Mr. Hubbard, bad been a partner
with a Mr. H. Wilkinfon, who bad the misfortspe
become a bankrupt, bat bad now obtained his omfd.
6cate. They were jointly concerned in htei4lft
new (hip, called the Tom' Henry ; Mr. Wilk
was the alive partner, and gave diredions to Alp
builder. Wilkinfon, at the define of Hubbard, had
befpoke the cordage for that new Gip, and the plain.
tiff had entered it in his books-44 To Wilkinfon and
Co." When the (kip was finiiked, it occurred to, the
defendant, as Mr. Wilkinfon was than in mkenaiper.
ruffed fituatioo, that he would have sotionipteirt Atm
do with this flap, and propofed that the
be taken oat in the name of %falafel aolybili3O
previous to that period, the plainA on the jein. AND.
die of thefe two Gentleness, kid executed On older,
and farnifited the cordage. •
Mr. H. Wilkiefoo having become a Bankrupt, and
obtained his certiicate, was a competent whim& to
prove what was secelfary is this canfc.
Mr. Wilkinfon was put into a fituation to be exa-
mined, and (aid, that Mr. Hubbard and be were
jointly concerned in the new fbip the Young Henry,
before the regiffer was obtained. He, the wina4,
was the managing owner, and every thing was left
to him. He was confedered as the agent for the
whole. He believed he was fo coafidered by the
Defendant. The amount of the cordage less &bent
7591. He was fatisfied all the articles were fairly
fupplied. The (hip was metered only in his (Mr.
Witkinfon's) name. Mr. Hubbard wiled is dachas
to have any thing to do with it, previews so dee tient
it was neceffary to take oat a regifier. Bat that was
after the cordage had been (applied by the Plaintiff
on the joint err& of the Defendant and Wilkinfone.--
When the Defendant withdrew hind& from this
concern, Mr. Wilkinfon gave him back his Beam by
allowing him credit for it in their account.
Mr. Gimes. leading Counfel for the Defeadane, en-
deavoured to thew his client never had any Awe in
that (hip, but that the parties only had it ea cantese-
plation that the Defendant amid have a (hare after
nee was built, and when the Weald be regidered.—
That he endeavoured, bat without faeces, to Blew,
on the crofs-emminatioa of the witners. who faid that
no perfon appeared in it but hirofelf. be was the
oftenfible perfoo. He ordered the nip, and Hubbard
was to take a there of it. Bat. fail the witnefs, I
conceive we were originally jointly concerned I—we
were concerned togethet from the La. It was fit
on foot for oar joint begat.
Verdi!!! for Plaintiff 75,1, tau
Lord Esesameovos will fat at GoldWl the
whole of this week.

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OLD *R.-1:1,L;',

Yellerday eight prifone: s wzte tlicd, four of whom
vv.! conv;:led of Llony, vit.
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Robert Leevit, for fleeting a 301. and a tot Bank of
England notes. It appeared from the evidence of
Mrs. Sinclair, the lady with whom the prifutter lived
as fervant, that previous to her leaving town, finite
time fence, (he had locked in her drawers a table-
cloth, in which were the two notes mentioned in the
indiamcnt. After her return from the country,
which was on the sth of °Sober, the o,ate the table
cloth to her female fervant, in order to be waited.
The notes were miffing, and flue dire(lly inflituted an
enquiry after them. She entertained fume doubts of
the prifoner, and had him taken up. He was cool.
mitted to the Houle of Correaion. The Officer who
conveyed him thither (toted, that in going, he alked
the prifoner leveret queltions, and at left obferved
him entleavouting to conceal fonsething in his bofom.
The Officer took from his hrealt a gob. Dank note,
two tt. notes, and a metal watch. The witnefs Paid
to him—" What do you think of it now ? The pri-
loner replied, 44 I don't care, I did not (teal them—
I broke open no locks—l picked them up." The
Officer produced the notes and the watch. Mrs.
Sinclair (wore to the 301. note being her property,
from the circunillance of her own fignature being on
it, and by the name 44 J. Hankey," being on its
back. The prifoner, it appeared, faid to the Officer,
that he had been in poffeffion of the watch more than
a twelvemonth. This affertion, however, by no
means tallied with the evidence of Mr. Hughes, a
watchmaker, who laid, that the prifoner, or tome
body very much like him, came to his (hop on the
lcth of OOober, and bought the watch. He gave
the witnefs a tot. note; the rimers returned him two
11. notes, and lie thus paid 81. fur the watch.
In the courfe of crofvexamitting t:se witnelles it
came out, that for fume years Mrs. Sinclair bad liv-
ed feparate from her hatband. The Ricotta", ac
eordingly, In the courfe of his charge to the Jury,
obferved, that fuch a fait was material for their con-
lideration. The articles which were flolen were laid
as the property of the hufband of the profecutrix, and
defcribed as having been Wen in his dwelling-houfe.
The Jury would not, however, find that to be the
cafe, and thus they would do away the capital part
of the charge. The Jury found him guilty of fleeting.
Wrs. Sinclair then addreffed the Court. She teemed
much affeaed, and faid that the had profecuted her
fervant in order that the ends of juflice might not be
defeated. It would afford her matter of high fatis-
faCtion, if the Court would extend any lenity to him
with which it was veiled by the law, as the man bad
all along ferved her with the utmoft fidelity and zeal.
Elizabeth Wright, Mary Day, and Margaret Well:,
were indiaed, the fret for felonioufly breaking into
the dwelling-houfe of No. 13, Grayboinrolane, and
Stealing thereout four gowns, two petticoats, a filk
cloak, a quilt,• and feveral child's cloaths, the pro-
perty of John Hemp. The two
slaft were alto in-
dieted for Cleating at the fame time leveret other arti-
cles of wearing apparel, but not for felonioufly en-
tering. The firft witnefs was Mrs. Hemp, who lives
on the fiat floor of the houfe, No. t 3, Gray's-inn-
lane, of which the prifoner had lodgings in the upper
part. She, upon going out in the afternoon of the
gtb of Oftober, about two o'clock, was met upon the
fairs by the prifoner, Elizabeth Wright. who anted
her, what time (be fbould return 1 She told her
about fix o'clock, and then went out, having &II
locked her door. When (he returned, the found her
door opened, and feveral of her drawers broke open.
Upon examination flue miffed the leveret articles of
wearing apparel, s hich were then produced in Court,
and which the identified to be her property.
John Hemp, her hufband, alto proved the proper.
ty, and the cireumaance of the locks blviog been
forcibly broken open.
A young girl About nine years old, who (lept on
the fame floor with Elizabeth Wright, proved that
the prifoner perfuaded her to come out and walk,
while Mrs. Hemp was out, and made tome pretence
for returning alone.
' A Conflable and Come Police Officers proved, that
bundk of chute clothes was taken the day after this
tranfaaioo, on the prifoner, Elizabeth Wright; that
paanbroker's duplicates for other articles of them
were found at the fame time in the pockets of Mar-
garetWells,and that Mary Daybed pawned the quilt.
Being called upon for their defence, the Prifoner,
Mary Day, laid, that it was merely fur Margaret
Welly the had pawned the quilt, and no duplicates
bektg found Oa her, the was acquitted. The other
vita Vete foamd guilty of fleeting, but not of break-
ing open the dwelling-houfe.
And four were acquitted, among whom was
?isihe 1,01111011, for Reeling iii the ;tarn of Clerlo
enwell, on the 9th of Oauber, two lambs and a leer:,
the property of John Stock.
Mr. Stock, who LS a falcfman in Smithfield, noted,
that on the sth of oOttbcr, lie received at \Vuitton
s 4 lambs, belonging to Lord Otfory; they were
'carted with red raddle down the bead and neck,
with a croft on the off fide, and a pitch bran I on tht.
rein Gde ; at the fame rime he received tight (beep,
mat lea with meld', down the head, and a nick and
a date on the off hip. The !keep btlonped to Mr.
Cumberland, at Woburn They were committed to
the care of John Dat bagc, the witnefs's fervent, who
wits to drive them to town. The witocfs wis in
Smithfield on Sunday evening thereafter, and be-
twezit fix anti feven nett met tong. he was told by his
f2l V ,nr: that two lambs belniring to Lord Otfory,
ord a (beep, the property of Mr. Comberland, wctc
saffitt The wititefs COI: tile aoirna:s afterwards, nn
the tame day, at Mr. Probert's, butcher, Great Lich.
thee.

lolon Barba defctibed hi; having been ordered
to Jiive the fhecp to town. On the Saturday night
be pot to Hol:oway, where his number was cruet.
Mr. Gram received Inc Cheep from du: 1.t.1 wit.
ilea, to efeort to Smithfield from Holloway. When
lie got to the market, he put them into the pens.—
H: Coon after miffed two lambs and a Bleep; be f.tw
them neat day at the above botcher's. On his crufs.
examination be Paid he did not think it po:Ehle for
toe animal• to be abdrofted from the drove without
Lie feeing them.
Martin, a wat.::.man, fai.l, that on the evening cf
the ‘..ty otention,:d in the indiement. about twenty
ratuutt; bdore eleven, a. he was looking out of Lis
Mit. he obferved tht:e flteep coming up Mutton•
going towar4s ChaLawcll Green. The pas,.

•.!:r he tlefolbed as heing in a truly panorai fitnallc.n
Ire 1,4 d a pipe in his hand, and was following them.
TI.: witnels called to him, and alked wherelse was
ving with thole (beep ? He replied they belonged
to a roan in Liquorpond.ftreet. The witne(s laid
tit? y rmght to be in Smithfield, as they belonged mon
pin:J.6ly to tome drover. The prifoner faid-he knew
the perfon to whom they belonged very well, al.,
though he was not acquainted with his name, and
I e was a drover. He then drove the fheep into
Caftlr.llreet, towards Saffron hill.- The witnefs then
feized him by the collar, and gave him in charge to
another watchman, while be (cured the (beep. The
prifoner laid ( have been led into this, and I'll be
damn'd if ever I do a good natured affirm any more."
The other partsjof the evidence teemed to be equal
ly accurate for the profecution.
The prifoner, in his defence, Paid, that he had
been (pending the day with tome friends, and at that
time in the evening he was at the door of the Royal
Oak public honk, where he lodged, when the (beep
palled him. He heard a cry of" Turner, ttop them."
He law nobody with them, and dircstly ran to flop
the animals. He denied all intention of driving them
away for his own ufe.
In ftipport of his defence, he adduced a number of
witneffes, among ftveral of whom he had been fpend.
ing the day; tome contradiaion occurred in their,
tellimony : one let affirming, that except between
twelve and one o'clock of the day, he had been With
them till half pail ten at night; the others being
equally politive that he was ab(ent one hour and up.
wards in the afternoon. A number of witnefes came
forward to his charaaer, which they all reprefented
at extremely good.
The RICO2D6R, Mr. Svcvarria, was proceeding
to charge the jury, when one of the Gentlemen, Mr.
Steinmetz, tallow chandler, at Rateliff-crofs, was
taken Co ill as to be unable to continue in the box.—
The Court waited for nearly an hour, in expeaation
of his recovery. At length a medical gentleman,
who had been called, appeared, and Rated, on oath,
that Mr. Steinmetz was fo very ill as to be unable to
diiaarge his duty. The Court then adjourned till
fix 6'clock, when a new Juror was (worn in the room
of the Gentleman taken ill. The whole procedure
was then renewed ; the Jury took the evidence into
confederation, and after confulting for half an hour,
returned a verdia of—Not Guilty.
The prifoner was a very decent looking man.