Star.
London, England, 1828-09-12 00:00:00

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Cure of the drawer. J. . Phillips, and J. 'Powell, the
acceptor. He wrote the bill from a copy given by Mr.
Feats..
John James, deputy post-master at Colchester, said
be had assisted the post-master twenty years. and had
rtteer known James Powell at Colchester ; be did not
know such a person residing there by that name in Fe-
bruary last.
John Fenton, an officer of the Sheriff of London, said
he resided at Colchester. He had not known, doling
the la* five Yeats, a person named Powell residing there.
John Edfirld, clerk to Mills and Co. of Colchester,
slid he.did not know a person atColchester of that name.
Henry Thomas, clerk to Messrs. Hankey and Co.
bankers, deposed that no person of the name of Powell,
at Colchester, kept cash in the firm of Hankey and Co.
The bill was then put in and read.
. The prisoner being called on for his defence, made
some.important observations on the improbability of
his
.rnaking,a confession to Pratt, that the bill was a
forger.. He appealed to the Jury, whether he could
gain any thing by such a confession? He denied so-
lemaly that he made the confes,ion which had been
stared.. The newspapers of the day had charged him
with ab.conding from his creditors, but the ch age was
a falsthood. Mr. Vincent, the attorney, I..uticl him at
Calais, stepping into the steam-packet, to return to
England, to settle with his creditors. A sing nag taken
from his portmanteau and 411. in Bank notes. The
prosecution he attributed to revenge on the part of Mr.
Vincent and his client, because he would not give up all
his propetty to one creditor to the injury of all the
others. The prisoner made a pathetic statement, that he
bad been a father to fatherless children, and had com-
mitted acts of dishonesty to find them bread.
The prisoner called several witnesses.
. John Haubury, a printer, said, he saw the prisoner at
Calais this year. and was with him when Mr. Vincent
came. The prisoner was then on his return to England;
hod) Vincent and Cook held out promises to tl.:e pri-
soner to induce him to*make a confession ; they said
they were his friends and he was safe in their hands ;
they had no wish to hurt him—on the contras y, they
had'i plan for his escape if they could get their money.
Vincent said his life would be in
,danger if he did not
tell where' his money was hid; the prisoner protected a
Mrs:Lewis and her orphan children.
Mr.,Pratt baying been called again, said he saw the
prisoner indorse the bill.
Mr..lusticeGamee, in his charge to the Jury, recom-
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wended thein to discharge from their minds any impre...
don made by the statement concerning the prisoner pub-
lished before his trial. 66 It is to be lamented," said the
Learned Judge, 66 that them is no cause of any intpor t-
since which comes berme the public on which the public
mind is not prejudiced by giving ex parte accounts.
That prejudice it is almost impootble to drive from the
human mind. I have no hetitation in saying, the con-
d.ict of Vincent in starring this publication to be made
was highly reprehensible. The excuse he makes is no ex-
cuse at all ; he should have said boldly and manfully, 6 I
Will give you no information, and if you publish ex parte
statements before the individual takes his trial, I will
institute a prosecution, and take care you shall receive
the punishment which you ought to have for interfering
to prevent a fair ttial:"—The Learned Judge finally
left the Jury to consider whether the acceptance was in
the band-writing of the prisoner, observing, if they
ihould think on the reasoning stated by the Counsel for
the prosecution,, that there was not sufficient proof of
the torgery, there was the uttering, upon which the case
appeared to be gal% clear. If they should be of opinion
that hiutteted, the bill
.with 4 knowledge that it was
forged, they, must prOnounee a verdict of guilty. 11
there was any reasonable doubt, the prisoner ought to
liaer the bepefit of it.
The jury retired from the box, and on their return
ktouoieil the prisoner Guilty of uttering.
• • NEW COURT
Before the COMMON Saasiaxe and a Middlesex Jury.

John Smith and William Jones were indicted lot steal-
ing, on the sth August last, a silk pocket handkerchief,
the property of a Mr. Godfrey.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutor. sup-
ported by two other witnesses, that the prisoner Smith
ti (shed Vie handkerchief from the pocket of the prose-
cutor while he *as passing through one of the narrow
avenues of the Tower, and tt ansterted it to Jones, from
whose bat it was afterwards seen to fall.
The prisoners denied the charge, and insisted that
they found the handkerchief, w hich they said had fallen
from the prosecutor's.pockei but they called no wit
messes to prove this fact. They were found Guilty. -
John M'Cann was placed at the bar, charged uith
hawing stolen, on the 14th of July lair, from the dwel-
ling-house if Willing)) Holding, in the parish of Brom-
ley.near Bow, two watches, one the property of Win.
Holding, and the other the property of John Furlong.
The charge was fully established in evidence; and
the prisoner said nothing in hit defence. Ile was found
Guilty.

(Before Mr. Baron VAUGHAN.)
Wm..Totoell was indicted for stealing a clock. valued
at 61. from the dwelling-house of Edward Richardson,
a publican, carrying-on business in Goswell-street. road.
The prosecutor deposed to the loss of the clock; and
a pawnbroker proved that the prosecutor had offered
' to pledge it at his shop, but that suspecting it to have
been stolen, he had him apprehended.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, but in con-
sequence of a misdeicription in the indictment of the
parish in which the robbery was alleged to have taken
plate, the Learned Judge in his charge told the Jury,
that the prisoner could not be found guilty of the capital
charge. but only of the simple fact of having committed
a larceny in a dwelling house.
The Jury found 'a verdict accordingly.
Sarah Martin' and Mary Anne Slorrer were indicted
for feloniously assaulting, on the 13th of August, in the
parish of St. Mark,Westroinster, a female, named Mat ia
Smith, and taking from her' pea son a Conielian hear',
the property of 'the said Maria &oat).
The ptosectoris stated, that von after one o'clock on
the shouting of the 13th of August last, she was re-
turning home him Clapham, and when arrittd op..
posite to Whitehall she met the two prisoners, in com.
puny with another girl who was not in custody. One
• of them (Sarah Mato), on seeing her approach, called
out to Fier comoihionk. Here comes a modest
let's do for her." Upribivhich viey all twee tell upon
her and tontine:iced rt.:furious assault, knocking her
down, den4fishing the crivin of her b:,nnet, and newly
throttling ter with the iihhand to which the cornelisn
heart nieutiimed ih the indictment was attached. aid,
which Martin wrenched Inm her. She, however, called
out for the watch, who came to het aid, and succeeded
in taking the two prisoners custody. The other
girl caved...?
The watchman and the constable of the night 'poke
to the violent cor:duct of
..‘lartiu after she had peen
takes to the witehh• use. .
I t her defence Martin said, that the prosccutrix:firit
knocked against iret, and called her names, upon winch
she (Marun) stuck her, and.was its 'tick agar., .upan

which the watch was called,
,and 'she was given in
charge. She positively denied that she took the cot-
nelian heart.
Storrei.avid that she knei nothing of the aff 4r, and
wai not twitm thispot until after Math' wAs taiten into
custody, when 513; joined those who were looking on,
and was lier,elt by mistake given in charge also. No
witnesses o ete called.
The Jury tetu•nrd a verdict of not Guilty.
William 'Powell was Again indicted for stealing a dial,
value 41. from a public boo e in the parish of Shore-
ditch, on the sth of August last.
The Jury tetorned a verdict of Guilty.
Joseph Hyde was indicted for hteakiiip and entering
the house or Will;am Goodman, on the 19th of August
last, with intent to steal.

The prosecutor WAS keeping the house, No. 5„ Great
Coram-streer, for the proprietor, then tesiding in the
country. The window shutter of the kitchen hid been
cut abut two o'clock in the morning, and it was evi•
dent, upon searching 4414 some pet son had been over
the house, but nothing was stolen. The prisoner was
found concealed in the yard of an adjoining house, and
was takrn into cutody.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS, for the prisoner, asked several
qoe.tions as to whether the prisoner (who is quite a bo))
was not half witted, or occasionally insane? but t le w it-
nesse% could not give an answer to the question; ow! of
th m said that Um prisoner admitted that he bought the
chisel foi the purpose of cote mg the house, not know-
ing that Mr. Wotdri; h. t! e 1 roprietor, was out of town
that in the absence of dlt. WindriCh. he would have
taken any thing, but if Mrs. Won't ich had been in
town, he would have taken a lithe, hut not much, and
that he had been in the house from halfspast eleven until
two o'clock.
Mt. PIIII.t.IIPS called witnesses to prove that the
:otter was drunk on the night in question, and ads,' called
Mr.Woulrich, the ploprictor of the h ,use, who deposed
to the prisoner having lived w th him for about fonr
months, during which he conducted himse.f well. Ile
was, in his opini n, very honest, but very stupid, and
even bait • witted.
Another witness deposed to his bring bred by his
mother in a state of derangement. .
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Gailtys
Josoph Rol e and Crof't were indicted for
feloniously assaulting JaniesTunisey, a Chelsea pensioner,
residing at No. 7. 11...yal Hosp:tabrose, on the dst of
July last, and taking lions him 1,. 4d.
The prosecutOr stated thit the robbery and assault
took place oppostte to his own &tors at about ten o'clock
at night; he (the prosecutor) was a Chelsea pensioner,
and had lost an arm dutine, the war; he tattled on
business as an umbrella.malxl, f>r the support r f his
family ; Wen h•s first saw tne prisoners they were en-
gaged in a scuffle with ar,other pensihner, whom they
were using very violently ; noon which be (the prose•
rotor) made some remark,. when the mistiness directed'
their fury towards him, and struck him with such force
that he fell to the ground in. a statrof insensibility, and
was conveyed into his hstude by hi. Wife and sister, whet
he found that his pockets had been .turned inside out,
and the sum mentioned in tte indictment taken hour
him. In the course of the evening the prisoners returned
with a rang of many others, and broke in the panels of
his front door.
Sevetal other witnesses proved the violence of. the
prisoner's conduct. and the cruelty with which they bad
crested the prosecutor.
.• A Bow-street officer, who apprehended Rolfe, pro.
duced a small hot of housebreaking implements', which
he found iialed down under his bed.
The prisoners. in tsteir defence, said, that the prose.
tutor commenced the assault on this, and Gilled wits
verses who deposed to that tact.
The Learned Judge having suMnied qP, the
without hesitation, returned a verdict of Gutty against
both the prisoners for the assault, but negatived the
charge if robbery.
Timothy Illalony and Thontas Jones, two lads, were
indicted for stealing. on the 11th of July, in the parish
of Sr. James, Westminster, a silk handkerchief, value
2s: the property of the Rev. Thomas Hatch. The case
was fully established, and the prisoners found Guilty.
was,
irlagrath, a youth of respectable appearance. was
indicted for stealing on the 22d of Joly, in the p.rish of
St. George, Itanores—cpiire, a pulse, value three shi -
ling., and four solielkigris, two halt sovereigns, ni..e
shillings, and six sixpences, the property of Samuel
Weymouth, Esq.
The prosecutor, who is Slit officer in the stray. stated,
th •t while in pavies•street, Grosvenor-equate, on the
22.1 of July fast, he felt a slight touch (soli dome per-
son, and on putting his hand into his pocket •founj'tliat
his purse had been taken from him. He instantly turned
round, and .aw the peisoner a short distance from him,
and his su'spiciOti falling on him, he purstied him thiongh
Grosvenor•square to the coiner of Brook-street. when he
was taken into custody, and the !Jambe foind in an area
hard by, the prisoner having thLown it there when he
found it inioi ssible to escape * •• s
'This statement was corrthotated by other Witnesses.
The prisoner merely denied the charge.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Guilty.
, An officer from Marlboroogh-street, after the verdict
hid been returned, stared that he had known the prisoner
five.years, during which he had been a reputed thief:
The Leitned BARON said he would most cettainly
have no other opportunity of practising Vs art in this
country. . . •
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1 isnotity Shearnuns was found Gugig of having stolen,
in the parish of St. Clement Daued, a silk handkerchief
value 2s. _ _

liubert Wilde, a very young lad, was found Gail!, of
A sinsslAr offence.

Before the COMMON SEINIVAIST.

Margaret Cq//in was found Guilty of having stolen
two halt crocus, ei;:bt shillings, and sixpence, from the
person of 'lhnimas Oliver, on the 7th of September, in
i brothel in Vine street, Chando, sueet. From some
cireurn•tances in the Cda the Jury recommended the
rib° et td m-rcy.
John Weatmoreland was ioJieted fez stealing, on the
9th if August, i • ree boat of the value of 2Ai. the
propel ty of NI t. John Henry Kelly, a bookseller, carry.
mg on bu,iness at N 0.2, Vigo buret, Brea street.
It appeared in evidence that the pri,oner came to the
pro•ecut,n's shop, under the pretence of I.ltrchasing a
street of brown p.ip,r, and that while Or girl who at-
tended in tl;e 4lop was getting the paper, he took an
opportunity of carrying di tact Prayer Books and
Test 'uteri; but being pursued, he threw away the
, books brf re be was taken. •
Toe pri,oner, who, although quite a lad, displayed
much acnitepess in Isis cross-esainination of the witnesses,
was prepared with a written defence, but it was such as'
could 0,1 be saistutory to a Juty. He had no witnes,es
The Jur yo% itoout he%itation, returned a verclictGudly.
John It'ebb N as indict d f.r stealing three pewter pots
from a pin.lnc tiouiC lit St. James's.
A knish: seti,glit, iu tt•c employ of thelandlord of
the kur.ni.: tiousa, swore that ',simmer kad stolen the pots.
'The paitoutt put a few questions to hers with a view

of sho a ing that be was not the Wean who bad•eoM-1
mitte'd We' robbery ; •but the witness still persisted tbat •
he was. This so exasperated the prisoner, that when
the young "woman reined floss the witness box, hc
took off a priodeious nailed shoe, and threw it at her,
with the utmost violence, striking her on the arn%
lle was eventually found Gang of the charge, when
the Learned Jodge told hint. that in consideration of
the savage, brutal, and atrocious act of which he had
just been guilty, which might have proved fatal to the
parry upon which it had been perpetrated, the Court
thought it prorr to visit him with the heaviest punish.
',sent the law would allow. The sentence of the Court
therefore was, that in consideiation of the contempt of
•uhich he had just Inca guilty, he should be imprisoned
in Nevegare, in solitary confinement, for six calendar
mobths, and that,, at the expiration of that time, he
'should be transported for seven year.
This sentence appeated to give general satisfaction
to those in Court. It was indeed scarcely possible to
imagine any thing more ferocious than the whole of
the yi tanners conduct..