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London, England, 1816-09-20 00:00:00

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bLD RAILtt ART. 164

Jciar. ximetes. Jitesieru. aged 18, was teethed
keeling on the 11th of Anent last, from the boom
.4 his baster. 4ohn Bluck, *hoist 100 volumes et
,boqlts, besidei.'othei property to i:great ensolintoina
safterwards for briaking feloniously' ut of the house,
fOr•the purpose o Carrying off- bah' property; • •'-
John Black; the Proteeutory stated that be- was'st
.schoolmaster at Stepney. and that the prisoner- for
lime time was k servant of his. He did not sleep at
lothe oil that night when the prisoner was aid to
have committed the. robbelry, blot he misted it sin-
.wderable number of article; hest day.
Farah -Block, sister of" the above, jaw the Fri!.
*loner as usual in the house that tearing; and under:
ataod hint to have:slept in the house. She saw every
Ailing in its usual state, and'considered thehipitioper-
tectly secured from :lightly depredators. 'ln the
Morning she was told, by the female servant, 'that a
Slumber of•articles were missing: She could not
speciff the number of articles carried off. Iron* her
not knowing exactly what articles, were the Plater
from which they-bad bette.l4llfn..
Rwoeinclotes
.anfemd ailoare arha4tickt.ksteeanteadllthat She
knew Maria
ae
secured
before her going to bed, and therefore the property
could have been abstracted only by an individual
who was in the house all night. On the day men-
tioned in the indiatnienr, there 'had been an auction
in the house. and . the gook had not been removed
by the purchasers, but were still ;lying in the room'
where the sale was till. the purchasers should come
for them. She saw the piisciaer sop after she got
out of bed.
William Setgrave, porter to the -auctioneer, em.
pleFed, at the sale by Mr. Black, deiosed, that he
was there on the 13th, and took an inventory of the
articles exposed to sie. The goods Were all safe
about seven o'clock in the evening. when he left the
house, and on.his coming next morning about halt
past nine, he was astonished to find a vast quantity
had been abstracted. He instantly suspected who
had taken them, and he communicated such suspi-
cious to his son, and bade him watch the prisoner
_very narrowly. His suspicions were first excited by
the boy, when be opened. the door in the morning,
appeartog lame, whereas he was not 60 the day pre-
ceding, and he also seemed very much jXoed, rand,
like a person who bad not been in bed all 'night, but;
had been drinking. The boy further seemed shy ini
answering any questions put to him by witness, and
tried always to get away as much as passible Out of'
witness's sight. His shoe was torn. On these
grounds witness taxed him with the crime,. but used
no threats or promises of any kind to discoycr the
truth.' The boy said be went to bed at half-past
eight, and did not.. come down stairs till 'half-post
eight neat morning and that he had heard no noose
or disturbance of any kind during . the night, This
answer, however, did not satisfy witness, and be told
Prisoner be was very much afraid his story was un-
true, as many articles were missing. .He was • an-
mend by the prisoner, " What's that to me though
they were all lost. I had no charge of theni." The
prisoner pointed out a ladder behind the house; stand-
ing up against the wall, and said the robbers might
have entered there, but witness knew it was toted
impossible, from the particular position of the ladder,
that the house bad been entered by it.
Rilph Hope, Officer. came to bfre
muck', house on the 14th of August, and appre-
hended the prisoner, and on searching him fouod on.
him a written list of various articles (most of which'
were stolen), a turnpike ticket of Cannon-street gate.
No. 76, three pieces of matches, and a key, which
opened a back gate, connected with Mr, 131uck's
house ; asked him how he happened to have suet
matches in his pocket, and he said his fellow-servant
had desired him to buy them, as they had none in
the house.-4 The servant being here called, solemnly
declated she nad never given him such instructions.
—Witness, about a fortnight after saw an advertise-
ment in a Morning Paper, stating that two Valuable
pictures, a quantity of books, and other articles, had
been let; at a house, No. 11, t;ulstoae.strect, White-
chapel, )4 a person unknown. on which be went
there with his brother officer Hewett, and .fOund the
very articles which Mr. Block had been deprived oh
He was taken up stairs by a Mrs, Thomson, laodlady
of ,its, house; to a room occupied by Anne Baker, an
unfortunate female of the town, where the articles
had been deposited. and he received from her three.
pawnbrokers' duplicates,
- Wm. Hewett corroborated the above, and added
that the prisoner, on being questioned respecting his
reason for having such a list in his possession, said he
had copied_ it for *augment from the inventory ai
the whole goods.
John•W: Humphries, keeper of the turnpike, ideas
• tified the ticket, No. 76, which he, bad given to totr
persons who passed the gate between, twelve and one'
in the morning of the 14th August, in a cut with
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horse. .. ! ••481, .'...4 • t .7
Anne Baker was .Real. pooMineil—...this "wktliesi
seeming much distressed at fhb prisoner's situation,.
.was admonished by the Court that she should con.
'iidefroperty the strioStssituation in which she there
mod; and, remember, the. strong and Aoleinn °lglai
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tion of an oath,.. made not only in the presence it a
~Court of Justice, but in the face of Goa-Awitioursu
and the terribli punishment with which the violation
of such- oath T./mull:6W visitedr—she thee stated that,
-the' prisoner had stark. lust only . twice betute this
transaction, and she romenibeis his
erdcoming With the
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goods in.quession early. aittilifedii Wy otorning,?in
_august, end he Other .-,sliemes lit.liberty.topairp
ii!zt•oi: then'. it she chost. .He protaisedo se* her
nett day, but slip .saw hi11)14.41 till Ae was called- to.
•Shadwell'Olfice: - . . • - . ..
Sorersl...pawnbriokere wired the tickets 'het been
granted to Bakcr and her *meant, and Produced the
articles, which Miss Illtiek* immediately etc •
to bi her brotherfs-Property. - ... :. . .. •:t
Margaret Osborne my the prisoner: and another.
Min in a ego, on the-Wednesdarmentiags bawled
tag and seven, gping towarch Mr. !Sinai house. She
has known him for some tiime..... , ; '.-- . • . •-.
Ann' Coottnay Saw him 104111 after tba lime may-
tftinectiry the: last witness, coming.- Egan his Mitsui:
botisk With•snotber man, in.& tart ; she said whims
be was-tery.'loon at work. He made no anssett-
.angled. ..lihe saw a picturt.fiansiin the-citt.' 1 :'-..c.
. . Sipes ilackson 'proved thitplisooer hatingitought.,
_.moo 014446 efoili him at Seny'alock no this /yelling,
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