Star.
London, England, 1804-10-30 00:00:00

Pules
Waterford

OLD BAILEI.

Saturday R. Rocket was indicted for haling Mae
dwelling houfe of J. Lewis, of Iflington, ten fiber
table fpoons, fixteen flyer tea fpoons, a Myer pinta
and various articles, to the value of soL the property
of the faid J. Lewis.
The wife of the profecutor proved, that her huf-
band having taken a houfe at Iflington, in March,
1803, the priloner was employed to ileep in it, for the
purpofe of ppoteaing the furniture, till the arrival of
the family. On the fecond day after the prifoner had
entered on the care of the houfe, the witnefs went
thither, found the door locked, siad that the prifoner
had abfcondcd. On a fearch being made, the key was
found in an outhoufe, along with the prifoner's cloaths,
in lieu of which he had taken a fuit belonging to the
profecutor. It was alio ditenvered that he had re-
moved a elicit of drawers from the hook to an ad-
joining bans, and plundered them of the articles (pa-
cified in the indiament. The prifoner was not ap-
prehended till within therefew weeks; no part of the
property was ever found, but when carried before a
Magiftrate, the pritioner cemfeffed his guilt; but
alledged that he had been impelled by another perfon
to perpetrate the offences. through. fear of his life.
It appearing that neither the profecutox, his wife,
nor any of his family, had flept in the houfe ; and
that the prifoner had not been employed as a fervent
who was to receive wages, it couid,not be faid that
the profecutor had ever taken poffeCfion either by him-
felfor others; Lord Ei. 1., ts soaouo a informed the jury,
that they mutt throw out of their corifideration the
capital part of the charge.' It was necerfary to make
it a dwelling houfe in the eye of the law, that the
profecutor or Come of his family fhould have nein in
it, and that the crime, had it been committed in the
night time, Ihould have amounted to burglary,which,
in the prefent cafe it would not, it appearing that the
kook was not fo completely feafoned as to admit of
the reception of a family. ..
Lord E Lt.! a DOR ou a ir held, that tinder there cis cum-
'lances, this hook did not afford to- the profs:actor
the protation of a dwelling. If broke open in the
night, as indiament for a burglary could not have
been fidlained. And therefore the Jury ander his
Lordtbip's direction, found the prifoner Guilty of
dealing the goods, but not in the dwelling.honfe.
Piiifip Mark„ and Vona, Willianu,at;oy of thirteen,
were indicted is accomplices in privately baling
from the perfon of William Dowding a pocket book
value 2s. and were :..onvifled.
John Hall was capl/ally indiftedt for Realing on the
loth of September lait, ptivately, in the fliop of Geo.
Brown', Shoreditch, eleven yards of cotton (a eines.
Thomas Brown, the' rhopman of the profecutor,
Rated, that the priioner came into his mailer's Ibop
on the day mentioned in the indiament, and Aced
far fume white jean ; the witnefs replied that he had
none, but that he could thew him fome farfnet. He
'looked at it, Lod faid it would not do. The prifoner
then tithed the witncfs to thew him fame white cot-
ton farfnet, and the witnefs opened to him Come co.
loured ants, of which the prifoner approved, and
Axed for two patterns, and for Come dark paper to
wrap them up in. He then afked for clay coloured
Winn, and a piece of fluff. He then took a piece
of green wrapper from under his arm, which he put
on the cotton farfnet. The witnefs then went Cr the
piece of Ruff, and obferved the prifoner take up the
green wrapper, and put it under his arm. Hs then
came to the end of the counter, where the witnefi ob-
ferved a piece of grey farfnet peeping out from un-
der the wrapper. The prifoner then went out, and '
Mr. Brown followed him and brought him back.—
The witnefs added, that he did nut know the precife
article the prifoner was flealing at the time he ob.
ferved him put down the green wrapper, but that
circumftance excited his fufpicion that he was Real-
ing fomething. Mr. Brown depofed, that he brought
back the patron, and found the farfnet in his cußody.
11 The prifoner gave in a written defence, in which
he Rated, that the farfnet in queftion had been given
to him by the profecutor on credit, and that he took
' it with the knowledge both of the profecutor and his
thopman. •
Lord Ettes iv:motto a again called up the profecu-
tor, and enquired whether there was
the (mallet
foundation for the defence. The profecutor replied
in the negative ; and the Jury, under the direaion of
his Lordthip, found the prifoner guilty of riesling,
but not privately.
Jane Lettfom and Mary Allen, were indicted for a
capital offence. Stealing twenty two yards of cotton,
value A. los. the property of John Robertfon, No. 6a,
Bread Saint Giles s, privately in the thop, on die 23d
of Oariber lafl.-13.ith pi &triers came into the lhop
together; Jane Lettrom afked for fume lincii, and
bought Come—white the did fo Mary Allen was ob.
ferved to do fomething which made the rhopman fui
pelt her. He charged her with having dolen fome-
thing, though he knew not what. He took her to'
the back Chop, and on (catching found the cotton con
sealed • but as the flinpman continued to obferve her
doing ;his, although lie did not know w:iat the was
healing, it was held out to be (leafing privately with-
in the conftration put upon the Aa of Parliament ;
and therefore the Jury, under the iliredion of the
RICORDLI, found Mary Allen guilty of Realing, but
not privately in the Chop—Jane Lear= not guilty.
Mary Makoni was tried Or privately Resting, on
the 4th of (Dauber, a coild's pelice, the property of
William Tindall. The profecutor is a man's mercer,
refiding in Hatton-garden ; and his fhopman, John
Davii, (wore, that on the day mentioned in the in-
(Lament, between three and four in the afternoon,
he obferved the prifoner come into the (hop ; lie was
then at the farther end of the Ihop, and the prifoner
inquired whether he fold black Rockings ? he replied
no ; and be obferved, as the turned round to go out
that the pelice WAS hanging down below her cloak ;
he directly get hold of her, the cloak came off, and
the police was in the infide of it. The prifoner laid,
the did not know how it came there. The whiter*
Raid to the Court, in anfwer to the queflion from
the learned Judge, that the pelice had been hanging
(lodide the door, and that the piifuner mutt have
taken it before the came in.
The prifoner in her defence, Rated that the
found the peliec on the Rep outride of the door, and
that the took it up, and went in to give it to the man.
.ihe denied aliiie, :or black floekta.gs, and obferved,
that it was hard the lhould have bout tates before a
juflice and (nee confined, merely ler carrying thd
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relict into the (hop.—Mt Baton Tromso's remarke

to the Jury, that The capital part of the charge, that
of privately Realing in the !hop, mutt be put out of
the queßion, as the evidence of the witneffes corn.
pletely proved the pelize to have been difplaytd out-
fide the door, and not to bare been Rolen in the Mop.
The jury found the prifoner—Guilty of rling, bet
not privately.
*. Yohanni Menpby wai toevifted of Beating a gown,
this,property of a Mrs. Hughes. The prifoner, in a
mots wretched Rate, went, round Mrs. Floghe's
neighbourhood, offering an apron for fate, as the was
very much di flreffed for money. Mrs. Hughes Rated,
that the gurchafed the aprOn, for which the gave nine-
pence, merely as an aft of charity, the herfelf atinally
(landing in need of no fuch garment. After the had
paid her, the prifoner went away, and, as a tett of her
gratitude for the generality, took with her the prole-
ctstries gortb, which the Coon after pawned for eight
; the was very loon detelted, and taken into
cußody.
The prifoner, When called upon for her defence,
denied the charge, and Rated the number of re-
lations Ilse had in the feryiee of the country : her huf-
baud and one fon were On board the Trident ; and the
had another, a feainatt on board the Jupiter s befides,
the had three children dependent on her own indußry
for fupport. The jury found her Guilty.—As the
prifoner was leaving the bar, the turned to the profe
cutrix, and exclaimed, " Oh, you wicked woman,
t I'm not the Ara you're hung ; you hatted Jack Wit-
hams; didn't ye ?'

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Yeßercley Hear, Trethamt was indiCted.for Reeling,
and Charlet Armitage for receiving, knowing the fame
to he finlen, fifteen racks of flour, the property of
Jo sit Tufting,. .
tt pealed in evidenie that aythe nrofecutor was a
flour fador ia.thurch-ftreet. St. Savicnir's, its the Bo-
' mugh ; that, he had feveral flops in different parts of
the City, in which he placed @vents who manirfac•
IMred. his Roar into bread; retailed it under the af-
, fize prices and accounted once a Week
,to the Profecu-
tor for the amount furniffied. to them. In this way,
1 en the recommendation of Armitage, who Paid that
'he would pals his word for Trottman's honelly, the '
profecutor about fix or eight months ago employed
Troutman, placing him in a ffiop in Union-flew,
1 Hackney-road, the leafe of which, fixtures, 8:c. he
purchafed, and fupplied furnifhings of every kind, al-
-1 lowing Trottman wages at the rate oft Sr. per week,
halides the profits of baking, firing, &c. The fhop
bore Trottman's name; but he continued to fettle
' weekly with the profecutor, till the lath Septemberi
,when there were 12 lacks of flour on hand. Oh the
day following Trottman fent to the profecutor, in-I
Ifni-ming him that butinefs was going on fistmouflls
and that hi would require an additional- fupply. This
demand the profecutor immediately anfwered by
fending twelve additional lacks of flour. On the
Wednefday after when he went to Trottman's (hop,
Ihe found it locked, and that Trottman had abfcond-
, ed. SufpeCting that Arntitage was privy to the lima-
*Rion, he called for him, but he denied alt knowledge
of it, alledging that Trottman had Yet off with 54 '
which he had lent him to make up his lag week's ac-
count. By making the proper enquiries, however,
,the profecutor was enabled to trace fifteen of the
lacks of flour into Armitage's houfe in Saffron-bill,
and Trott, an officer of Hatton Garden, alfo traced
five of thefe Packs from Armitage's poffillion to that
of a baker of the name of Salter, in Leather-lane,
who had exchanged with Armitage five lacks of frelh
floor for five lacks of lisle flour, and a fack of fait.—
In Salter's (hop the profccutor found two, and in
Armitage's one of his own lacks which he had fent
with flour Trottman, to all of which he fu ore in
Court. When apprehended, Trottman alledged that
he had been feduced into the haulers by Armitage,
to whom he had given the flour without receiving
the proper value; and Armitage when the flour was
fairly traced to him, fo that he could no longer de
oy it, attempted to get off, by (hewing a receipt for
the price of 12 lacks of it under Tiottman's hand.
Mr. ALLEY, Counfel for Trottman, endeavoured
to (hew that from the fituation in which his client
had been placed by the profecotor, as apparent !star-
ter of the fhop, being defcribed on the door, and in
the (hop cards not only as Baker, but as •' Flour
VOW, that he was entitled to fell or otherwife dif-
pole of that flour, and that nothing more than action
for payment could lye againit him at foe fait of the
profecutor.
Mr. KNAPP 21.111, as Contifel fur Armitage, main-
tained that both his client and the whole world were
by the profecutor's own ad and deed taught to view
Troutman as the proprietor of the (hop, and to deal
with him as fuch.
The Recount Paid, that as a fervent to the pro-
fecutor and receiving wages from him;Trottman was
nut entitled to make away with the flour, which, as a
baker, he had received to mek: into bread ; and that
in converting it to any other life he was guilty of fe-
lony. Armitage, again, was the very perlon who
had recommended him to this fituation ; and though
all the ref of the world might be ignorant of the oir-
coma ance, he could not but know that Trottman
was merely the prolecutur's fervent, and that in re-
ceiving the flour from him, he was guilty of the
charge laid aainft him in the indtment.—The Jury
immediately found me both the pi ifonrs Guilty.
LOAD ILLI/111020VG11'11 •CT.
yobie Withialia was indicted under three different
counts, for cutting and wounding in the little finger
Nathaniel Oliver, an officer. with an intent to mur-
der him, with intent to disfigore him, and with in-
tent to Jo him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Wrker, Counfel for the peofecution, Rated
the purpoles of the AR, by which thc clime in thc
indictment was made a capital offence. The profe -
tutor in the prefent cafe was a perfon veiled with
authority in two different refpeas. He was an offi-
cer of the Public Office, Shadwell, and, lrom.ihe
nomherlefs coinages committed in that qnarter. the
Magißrates had found it neceffary to order the offi-
cers to patrols the Ames, and to vilit places where
any firfpicious else:alters were knows to refort. He
was alfo on the prefent occarion veßed with another
authority, the right to c sercife which, he was per-
loaded his learned brother on the other fide would
not, at this day, be inclined to clifpute—a warrant to
imprefs lumen ; and, it was in his endeavour to till
charge his duty, in both ot thefe capacities, that h:
was wounded by the prifoner a: the gar.
Rogers, one stt the officers of the Public Office,
Shadwell, ttAtcJ, that if. :01111124412211..0 of italratiors
from the Negotiates, aid alto is T 1111,12 4.4 an im-

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prefs warrant, he went along with Oliver. **other
()Mier, to the Three Suns public houfe in New Orra•
vel-lane.
Mr. ALLAY having denied that the warrant pro- '
duced was a regular imprefs warrant,
Mr. Samuel Turtle, clerk in the Admiralty Office.
proved the hand writing of Sir Philip Stevens, Sir
T. Trowbridge, and Sir H. Neale, three oldie then
Lords of the Admiralty. by whom it was fined ;
and alfo that a fail upon the warrant was the real of
the Admiralty. He alfo produced the original Or-
der of Council in virtue of which the Admiralty
Board had dined the warrants limiter to that pro-
duced by Mr. Rogers.
Being anted, however, by Mr. Alley, if he had
any other opportunity than common report for know.
ing that Sir Stephen Cotterel, whole name appeared
at the Order, was Clerk to the Privy Council, and
having anfwered in the negative,
• Mr. ALL Er maintained that, without affertingthat
this was not a real and genuine Order of Council, be
felt himf:lf called on to objeft to its being here re-
ceived as evidence, unlefs the fignature of the clerk'
were proved.
.By this Order of, Council, an innomb •
tion, and one of a very ferious nature, was made in
the iffuing of imprefs warrants, and he had a right
to fee that, being an extenfion of the powers formerly
exiling in imprefi officers, it &sold not be fanaioned
but on the fulleft and moil convincing evidence. On
calling for the warrant, however, he ail-covered ano-
ther informality. For though the Order of Council
extended the granting of warrants to Police officers,
&c. the warrant in queltion was addreffed to Mi.
Edward Rogers, without adding the defcription of
" officer," art omiffion which, Mr. Alley maintained,
muff, 'of itfell, be fataL Mr. Rogers might or might
not, from what appeared on the face of the warrant,
be a perfon entitled under the Order of Council to
aa, and any perfon againfl whom he withed to pot
it in force, on calling for his warrant and teeing that
he was not legally defcribed, would be warranted in
refitting its execution.
The Racoaosa [aid, that heie the life of the pri-
loner was at hake. it was therefore the duty of the
Court to fee that every formality was Brialy ob-
ferved, and that the perfons who were to execute
fuch warrants thoutd be defcribed, as dirc&ed in the
order by which they received their authority. The
Ad under which the prefent indictment was laid
could not admit of any doubt as to its interpretation,
but till it was neceffary that the officer ought te be
podded of formal and legal authority. The India
tutor had here failed in this firn and effeotial point,
and, as the life of a fellow Meature was implicated
the Coati and Jury could not proceed with too meth
caution. If the warrant had been regular, a very
heavy punithment awaited the refitting it, but perfena
cottoned with fuch authority fhould be well tourism-
ed that their warrant *as formal and legal before
they attempted to execute it.—Not Gelb,.
Mr. KNAPP wiffied to have the passer detained
as guilty of an affaolt. Mr. ALLar, howevet,
maintained that the profecutor's warrant being ille•r•
gal, he ought rather to be indiaed fur as affaulL-i 'a,
1:i/charged. -
Richard Itleyvood was indifted, for that be on tlid• '-
soth of Oaober. on Sarah, the wife of Witli'a4
Wilfon, felonioufly, maliciouny, and unlawful, dIS"
make an affault with intent to obilrua NO prevent
the lawful apprehenfion and detainer ofobais the fail•
Richard Heywood, foi a certain felcsay with which
he Rood charged, and with a (harp. Wit-orient did
cut. and wound her on the cheek, with intent to mur•
der her. . .
The fecond count with intent to maim, and the
third, to do her fume grievous bodily harm.
1 Mr. ALLEY Opened the pleadings, and Mr. Gua-
mET the cafe for the profecution. The ciicumftances
are thele—
Mr. Wilfon, an upholder in the Strand, had taken
alt:lure, No. ir. Thayer-amt. Manchetier.fqOara.
and had fent furniture into it; and having found, one
morning, that tome thief had entered the houfe over
" night, and removed part of the furniture, prepara-
tory to the taking it away, determined to watch at a
houfe over the way, in order to detect the thief.--
Accordingly Mrs. Wilfon, together with a Mifs Jen-
kins, took her fiation at the Iroufe oppofite, when
'labour fix at night they law a man enter, and faw n
light in the houte ; on which they were convinced it
I midi be a houfebreaker, as no fervent of Mr. Wilfon
was then in the houfe, and Mr. Wilfon had not been
able to return from Bow-ilreet, whether he had gone
for a police officer. Mrs. Wilfon immediately ran
over to the door, knocked loudly at it; on which
two men rulhed out, one of whom gave Mrs. Wilton
1 a violent wound with an iron crow, bust was loon
taken : he was the priconer at the bar ; the other
I made his efcape.
I It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Wilfon, and
of Mr. Jenkins. Iris friend, and of Mil. Jenkins, that
this houfe was taken as above Rated ; that the furni-
ture was put into it ; that lime time afterwards it
appeared to have been entered by force in the night.
The copper and liVel AI articles of the property had
been removed and packed up for the pulped, of being
carried awry. Mits Jenkins alio detcribed the man-
ner in which Mts. Wilfon and herfelf took their na-
tion oppofite to this houfe, Np. at, Thai et-timer.
Mancheitci ((rime. and of feeing the thief enter
about fix 'clock ; hot the particulars were molt in-
terettingly related by
Mrs. Sarah Wilfon halal, who gave her evidence
as follows :—" I am the ale of William Wilf in.—
On the evening of the toil of OCtober, I was with
Mils Jenkins at Mr. Willianifon's, oppofite to No. i i.
its Thayer-ftreet. While we were there, 1 law two
perfons, one of them at the door, and the other
Ranclung by tire railing. In conicquence of what
Mils Jenkins laid to me, I obferved the door of the
houfe, No. I I, and I COV a tight in the pafrage, the
light hid not appeared betore the two men came to
the bottle. I went to the door of No. ii, and knock-
ed at it violently. Tire door operci quickly, and a
man rushed out. I put my hand to au p hum, and he
lined up his hand and tiro, k me. I CA:i1101 fay whist
there was in his hand whet' he lifted it up to strike
me. lie (truck me on my ti4ht check, 1,,,t slid not
kn•ick me down. I received from that blow a very
violent cut, and one of m) teeth wss removed from
the lower jaw' by the blow. Mr. Ila.ley was the fur-
geon all r attested me. The perlon alio !truck
me ran away iii.o.r:lu. I lAN ii c ICCond man be.
hind the lICTION who it,,, I. roe; but I kit ro- nothing
more ; I have b.cr. s 0 ) :11 in ccuicquence uf the
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t before the came in. funded his learned brother on the other fide would knock me ariwn.
prifoncr in her defence. Rated that Ike not, at this day, be inclined to difpute—a warrant to violent cut. ath.t one of my teeth was removed from
the pelice on the Rep outfide of the door, and imprcfc karma ; and, it was in his endeavour to dif the lower jaw be the blow. Mr. 13.01ey was the far-
e took it up, and went in to give it to the man. charge his duty, in both of there capacities, that he won h.' atteitited me. The rerfon who ftruck
Med afking for black ftockings. and obfcreed, was wounded by the painter a: the bar. me lan away lama .2... I fats the feennd man be.
was hard file World have be
taken before a !Urgers, one of the officers of the Public Office, hind the potion who...
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and fince confined, merely for carrying the Shadsvell, Rated, that in moleqactice of Mars/hoot more I hare ban reiy ill in ccarequence of the
into the OlOr—Air. Baron Taortioa remarked from the itch old alto in tit as blow." [Tors over.