Star.
London, England, 1816-09-27 00:00:00

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listiihmodeastio,
Apetlioklies' icipparietlioso **mote I
in a hurry., • hiving indoraed.die
ness gave him tbg'snenet. MhesisdiertinlyZeditieb‘,
dte bill, hatnavetllcets shore& by h.n, ,en y :respect.
'Oh the diy.vibeite-fte bill became du, witness went
'eo PeeteasCrgeoouse, 'here the bill was said to be
'payable, bat he toned no suels•person -there, nor at
,Bleeklueathe where be afterwards went to make in.
•Kaseav Wing Hells, but would never have,
cubsit • bill.ot his, knuwinghe was unable to pay
any'bM. Told: prisoner he should certainly prose-
cute hiin foilwegirf tialiss he paid the bill, but pri-
soner made light et it,•
Cross.exersined by• instill'..'-In 1806 was a
bankrupt, and again in 1810. In 1812 was des.
charged by the Court of common Pleas, un,ler the
Lords' Act, at in insolvent, and again was dis-
charged on the same ground in 1014, by the Clout
of King's Bench. Never justified bail for any person
in 1813 or 1814, nor was possessed id the. leases cif
any property. On being pressed strongly by Mr.
Gurney, confessed he had justified it in three cases.
Again examined very closely by Ptr. GCHNLI.—
He confessed be had dr.: leas? of Joe's Coffee-house,
thoiigh in a subsequent rat of his exaraTit ation
.denied having had such a lease.—( l'fie cross exerni
nation of this witne.s, ich continued for two hums,
was a tissue of the nio:t flagrant contradictions)
Mr. G. Thurkell was about to be examibed, when
• Mr. ALUM declined taking up the time al the
Court any further, as he could Luc make out his case

by the present tvidence.
The prisoner of course *as found N^tt Cuilty,and
immediately discharged.
William Price and John Knight, two young hoyb,
were indicted for feloniously breaking :Ind enteria:4
the dwelling•house of Win. Westley, on trie 9.1) of
July last, and stealing therefrom a silver watch, his

property.
Mary Wes,ley remembered the day laid in the in
dicsaient. Was up stairs in her house, heard the
street door open.. and coming down, saw the two
yawners. in her shop. They asked for a bun, and
threw down a shit. ing. which witness suspecting to
be bad, refused to take. Prisoners said they would
go mad get change, and immediately left the shop.
Shortly after the husband of witness came in, and
then witness missed the watch, which, a sew minutes
before prisoners came io her shop, she had seen
hanging in her p Moor. No person had come in,
but the prisoners, from the time witness had seen the
match till she raised it.
Mary Rose knew one of the prisoners (Price), who
came to her the day after the robbery, and requested
she would take care of a pawnbroker's duplicate of
a watch, which he would call for again on the fol
lowing morning.
Thomas Rice, an Officer, proved that he got the
duplicate of the watchlrom the last witness, and get
the watch from the pawnbroker.
[Bete both the prisoners declared, that the witn•
Mary Rose' had told them to go and procure things,
and that site would buy them trf.tri them. One of
them (Knight) said, that she offered him teo slid
lings fur the watch, and that she gave him sixpence
for the duplicate. Mary:Rose was again called up
and underact a strict examination by the iti.!be
(Mr. Justice BUIMOLTCH). In this she denied that
sne offered to give money to the prisoners. She Lid
not know what the duplicate Way whcu it was pre-
sented to her by the prisoner Price.]
A Police 'Officer from Hatton-garden, here ad.
dressed, the Court, and said that the witness, h* •ry
Rose, was a person that would buy any thing that
was offered to her for sale, no matter how it was got,
and that it *as 'to her, and persons ot her desc.rip.
tern, *ere to be attributed the frequent depredations
committed b) young boys.
The pawnbroker with whom the watch was pledged, '
Was then called, but he nut appearing the prisoners
wireacquitted.
The dunce,. after a solemn admonition to the psi.
soiseis against such, practices as they had been accus.
oidered them to be discharged.—Neither of
die boys were more than 10 years old.
Viand ilfurithis aged 27, was indicted for a high.
way robber y, in forcibly taking from the person of
Mari Terry, a shawl, in July last, near Montague.
square. !
Mary Tarr said, sbe was walking on the night
laid in the indictment, and was met by the prisoner
between eleven and twelve o'clock. He caught hold
ot her shawl, as it to take it from her. She asked
him what be wanted, and instantly called out
" Watch !" Prisoner then struck her on the stomach,
and. broke the bask of her stays. He gave her two
r three other blows, wriitit knocked her down s be
also struck her after she was down, and then rag off
with her shawl and handkerchief. Prosecutrix got
up as soon as she could, and ran after prisoner, cry-
ing-4! Stop him, stop him !" While lie was run-
ning off, witness saw him throw something lions
him. She newer lost sight of him from the time he
run,. until the watchman stopped him. Was certain
he was the seine man.
William Cape'', a watchman in the parish of
Mary la.boune, was about to leave his box. to cry.
hall-past twelve en the night of the robbery; heard
the cry of the last witness, and proceeded to the spot.
Met the prisoner running at full speed towards him.
Witness bid him stand, and immediately took him
into custody, and gave him in charge to another
watchman. The list witness came•up before he gave
the prisoner in custody, and instantly recognised :tint
as the person who robbed her. He was then taken
to the watch-house.
To a question by the prisoner, this witness denied
his ever having told the prosecutrix that she wool,l
be well paid for her shawl at the Old bailey.
Mary Terry was again vtlied up, and said th.:i
while she was at the watch-horse, a woman, wv:al,
she did not know, • brought in her shawl, sire
had found in the street. Witness gave it'to the curt-
:table of the night, with kept it'since. •
• The Constable of tie night produced the shawl,
which the witness, Mary Terry, proved to be the
same.
The Prisoner, in his defence, denied the robbery,
and said that be was going peateOly home on Cie
eight mentioned, ,when be was stopvti by. the ,w,ateli. '
mini after which the first 'witness came up and gave I
him WI charge." . • • -
The Judge (Mr. Justice HOLIWTD) SUMMO rep
the evidence-, and the MT, after Cotisultirig together