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London, England, 1828-01-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAY. 11.

Edward Brown stood charged with loving procured
to be sent and delivered, on the 90th of M.v. a promis-
sory note for 1L of the Sunderland Bank of Messrs.
Jonathan Backhnnse and Co. to Mr. Robert Martin;
and with having, unlawfully And wickedly, solicited
Mr. Martin to aid and assist in forging 2.500 of such
notes, with intent to defraud divers liege subjects of
the King..
The piesoner, on being arraigned, pleaded Guilty.
The Court deferred judgmenttill Monday.
Sarah Young was found Guilty. for having, on the
10th of Dec. eiposed her infant child in the public
streets, without sufficient clothing to preserve it from
the inclemency of the weather, and without any supply
of food.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced her to two years impri-
sonment.

OLD BAILEY. JANUARY 11.

OLD COURT--(Before Mr. Serpant Assam.)
Williams Bullen stood indicted for stealing a large
quantity of household furniture and searing apparel in
the dwelling-house of Jonathan Tibbs, the property of
John Sandy. It appeared that he was a lodger in die
same house with the prosecutor, and teak an opportu-,
nity of stripping the room of the latter. When appre-.
hended, he confessed the fact, and said he bad been
driven to it by distress. Several witnesses gave him an
excellent character, and it appeared that he had a Wife
and eight children.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilt"
of stealing under the value of 51.
Before rke JUDOS& • •
John Jones was indicted for stealing in a dwelling
house 101. in silver monies, and divers articles, the pro,
petty of J. Dixey.
The prisoner resided in the same room with the pie-
mentor, and the, money was taken from the box of the
latter. The cas& was clearly made out against the pd.
soner, and the Jury found him Guilty of the minor.
offence, the capital charge not being made out, in cobs
sequence of the following little circumstance:--The'
indictment stated that the monies were stolen in the
dwelling house of William Hollet, but there was no
evidence to prove that the Christian name of Hollet
was Wiliam. The capital charge was'therefore aban-
doned, and the prisoner was found Guilty of stealing.
lasses Brown, aged 62, was indicted for maliciously
stabbing and cutting Elizabeth Hicks, with intent to
kill and murder her. There were other counts, charging
that he intended to disable her, or do her some grievous
bodily harm.
Elizabeth Hicks stated, that she lived in King-street,
Wapping ; the prisoner resided in the same house, On
Thursday last the prisoner went into the room of Mary
Lynes, where she then was, and said. " Are you here,
Mrs. Hicks r He asked her in an angry way ; he then
asked her if she had seen a quartern loaf, she said she
had not, he had better wait till his wife came home; he
then called her a liar and a thief; he said—" You lie,
you b...-. thief." He did not charge any one with taking
his loaf; he went out of the room; she went down
Stain to get some water, and had occasion t, pass his
room door ; the door was open ; as she passed he swore
"by the !I ly Father" he would strike her. He came
out at the door and ran a knife into-her left breast ; she
staggered; Mary Lynes was near her; she went out to
a Doctor ; there was not much blood came from the
wound ; she had drank gin with the prisoner that morn-
"iog before this happened ; he was very drunk ; the first
portion of gin was a quarters; he did not drink any of
that; they had a second quartern; she had never drank
with him before that morning, nor had ever quarrelled
with him.
By the prisoner.—She was not in his room, but on
the stairs. He never had any malice against her.—
He bad always been very civil to her ; she bad nut said
to the contrary. _
Mary Lynes confirmed the evidence of the prssecutriz.
(The knife was produced; it was a sharp-pointed
shoemaker's knife.)
Mr. John Chatwood, an apothecary, dressed the
breast of the prosecutrix : it was a simple incised wound
about three quarters of an inch long; he closed the lips
of the wound with plaister ; the knife produced would
no doubt have made such a wound.
An officer, who took the prisoner, stated that when
he got him down stairs he asked him what had made
him use such violence? he replied, 41 because he had
lost his tea and sugar, and bread and butter !" He also
said that he had struck her on the breast with the handle
of the knife—the sharp point was in his hand.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had bola.
I in his Majesty's service for 21 years; that in a battle he',
was struck on the head with a musket, and left for
dead on the field ; that subsequently he was on board a
man of war, and there he received another injury on the
head, and ever since, whenever he took a little liquor,
it so affected him that he did,not know his friends from
his foes.
A witness gave him a good character ; he said that
the prisoner was in the habit of getting drunk about
four times a year ; he was then very quarrelsome.
Mr. Justice PA sr summed up, and the Jury found a
verdict of Ara Guilty.
Nicholas Henigan was charged with having, at the
parish of St: Mary-la-bonne, on the 17th of December.l
attempted to kill and murder Robert Taylor, by firing
a loaded pistol at him-. A second count charged the
prisoner to have done so,with intent to maim and injure ;,
and the third count stated the intention of the prisoner
to have been to do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. ADOLPHUS appeared for the prisoner. The facts
of the case will be in the recollection of our Readers.
The parties had been club-mates in a Society called the
"Friendly Britons," but some disputes having arisen
between them relative to one of the members, whom the
prisoner wished to have expelled from the society, but
which was successfully opposed by the prosecutor, led
to the issue which had placed the prisoner in his present
painful situation. The evidence adduced on the pre-
sent occasion was in substance the same as that adduced
on the occasion of the hearing before the Magistrates,
with the exception of the surgeon's evidence, who de-
scribed the injury to have been merely a skin wound.
The Jury consulted for a short time in the box, and
then found the prisoner Guilty on the third count.
The prosecutor and Jury strongly recommended the
prisoner to mercy.
NEW COURT—(Before Mr. Sergeant Alums.)
Williams Nelson was indicted for stealing a watch,
chain, and seals from the person of John Ferguson,
a carpenter. The prosecutor sated, that he was
thinking on Christmas eve, at a public house in Re•
gent-street. lie was shut out with the prisoner at
twelve o'clock, and they both knocked to get in again.
After a few minutes knocking, 'the prisoner snatched
the prosecutor's watch and ran off. The other ran after
him, calling out " S'op thief I" and without losing sight
.of. overtook him in about 100 Ards. by the prisoner
falling down. The watch was fotind afterwards near
the spot.
The prisoner, in defence, said, that be had been
drinking deeply at the time, was unconscious of having