Star.
London, England, 1803-01-18 00:00:00

OLD BALLET.

Yefterday morning Captain William Pearce and
Mils Mary johnfon. charged wi-h malicioufly
(hooting - Cobb, in Paddingtotatreet, wet e
put to the Bar, but the Counfel for the profecu-
lion having confented to let the trial (land over
till the next Salons the Court acquiefced in the
confent, and the prifoners were taken back.
Mr. Pearce approached the Court with much
firmnefs, but Mifs Johnfon was agitated in the
extreme. She was led from the Bar apparently
in a fainting fit, quite infenfible of her fituation.
Eighteen Prifoners were tried, three of whom
were capitally convicted, viz.
.7oba Davit for burglarioufly breaking and en-
tering a dwelling houfe, in Dorfet-fireet, Portman
Square. The houfe belonged to a Lady who oc-
cupied two boufes, contiguous to each other, the
greater part of which (he ufed to let oat in lodg.
ings. Her fervant flept in the houfe that had been
broken into. The Prifoner with another, entered
it by means of falfe keys, early in the morning,
long before it was light, and were feen packing
up feveral articles. The Prifoner was immediately
taken by two men who had been let to watch the

houfe, in confequence of a previous attempt that
had been made ; the other man at that time made
his efcape. Guilty.—Death.
gobs Mon*, only 17 years of age, for being
at large during the period for which he had been
fenrenced to tranfportatinn.
It appeared that the Prifoner had been convi&ed
of grand larceny, at the lait September Salons ;
and Mr. Kirby, jun. delivered him on board the
Captivity hulk, at Portfmouth. On the t ith of
December he was met walking in one of the fireets
by a Bow-fireet Officer, who knew, and took him
into cullody.
The Prifoner admitted he was guilty; but beg-
ged for mercy. Guilty—Death.
yawn Haydens alias Marta., for borglarioufly
breaking and entering the dwelling-houie of John
Rogers, and dealing therein two gold rings, his
property.
John Rogers, the Profecutor, laid, that he is a
Jeweller and Silverfmith, living at No. so, High-
Itrect, Bloomlbury. On the 4th December loft,
between five and fix o'clock in the evening, he foil
feveral articles in his trade, diamonds and gold
rings to the value, as far as he had been hitherto
able to ellimate, of about sgl. Among the articles
hc 1011, were two gold rings, which were in a (hew
glafs in the (hop window, fecured in the ufual way.
As he twat at tea in the parlour behind the !bop,
he was alarmed by a noifc of a pane of glafs being
broken, and his Shopman jumping over the coun
ter, and afterwards endeavouring to open the door,
but which he was unable to do, for it was dirco-
crered to have been tied by a cord on the outfide,
which was fattened to the latch at one end, and
the other to the railing of the area. After a great
deal of difficulty Mr. Rogers himtelf fucceeded in
opening the door, and by that time a mob had
colledcd at the door, fo that he thought it advife-
able to (hut op. He then difcovered that his pro•
petty was taken out of the (hew glafs, but he
knew nothing of the perfcm who took it ; he law
the gold rings again in the care of the Officer of
the Watch, who apprehended the Prifoner.
John Bacon, the Profecutor's Shopman, gate
the fame account as his Mailer as to the breaking
the glafs window, and the door being tied by a
cor4 fo that he could not open the door until Mr.
Rogers came to help him. He law the band of a
nun an the glafs after it was broken, fo that there
was no doubt that the property was taken away
at the time the glafs was broken; fo that the
breaking and entering the dwelling. bona, and the
Ilealing of the goods, was at one time.
It then appeared that the Prifoner was appre.
bended in the flreet by order of a Mr. March, a
Jeweller in the neighbourhood, and dun when hc
was taken up, he made all the reinforce in lii•
power, fo that two or three Watchtrzu h.td much
ado to cgaduit him to the watch heufc ; this was

between eight and nine at night. He was fearched
there, and in his fob were found two gold leak
which the Profccutor fwore to be his property, and
he fwore that they had been in his (hew glals half
an hour before it was broken. • •
The Prifoner gave no account of himnlf further
than that he found thole goods in the facet.
The CHIEF Balton of the Excu toy te faid,that
in order to conflitute a burglary, there mull be a
breaking and entering in the night. together with
a healing, or an intent to Real. As to the break-
ing and entering, fo (acted did the Law of Eng-
land hold a dwelling houfe, that the bare lifting
up a latch, with intention to commit a felony. was
a breaking, and the putting in the hand through a
pane of glati was an entering of the dwelling
houfe. Here the breaking and entering were clear,
and no doubt it was in the night. The healing
the goods alto was at the fame time 25 the break.
ins ; the only quellion was, whether the Prifoner
was the man who did, or was concerned in the
doing of it? and upon that the behaviour of the
man when he was apprehended, and the finding
the property upon him fo recently after it was
holm, were material points for the confideration
of the Jury, who perhaps might exped of the Pri-•
Loner a better account as to the manner by which
he came by them, than by barely Paying that be
found them. His Lordthip left the cafe to the
Jury, who found the Prifoner
Nine were convicted of felony, viz.
Williaw7twarpfun, a black man, for a burglary
in the (hop of James Carey, Richard Carey, and
John Kelly, and 'loafing feveral pair of !hoes ; and
.ItRZ Bewley, fur receiving the fame, knowing
them to have been Bolen.
James Carey dated, that the thop is on Great
Saffron hill ; that Come time in November lag he
miffed fix pair of floes from the (top; Thompfott
the prifuner, lived next door, and about a twelve-
month ago he purchafed a pair of (hoes ; there
was a loft adjoining his boufe, and lad Friday week
Ee examined it, and found that a paffage had been
forced through the rafters ; when in the loft there
was nothing to prevent any perfun from going
down into the (hop.
John White Paid, the prifoner lodged with him,
next door to Mettrs. Carey's (bop, for nearly 12
months ; he law him tall Friday week among the
rafters between feven and eight in the morning.
Chapman, a police of of Hatton Garden-
Office, had examined the rafters, from whence it
was eafy to enter the (hop. On Friday, the 7th
of January, he fearched the (hop of the prifoner
Bentley, near Brook's Market, and found four
pair of shoes in thewindow along with others dif-
played for Cale. The witnefs asked where he had
got them ? He pondered for fame time before he
could mode& and at length Paid, he had put.
chafed them from a Mulatto man nearly three
months ago.
Elizabeth Wheeler, fervent to the ptifoner Bent-
ley, laid, that about three months ago Thompfun
came to her mailer's (hop with five pair of shoes
for fale ; he hefitated about buying the (hoes fuf-
pating Thompfon had not come honealy by them.
Thompfon Paid be need not be afraid of buying
them, as he had been two years at lea, and not
receiving his wages, be had got the (hoes that he
might make fame money by them.
Mr. Carey was then called up, and be identi-
fied the (hoes produced to be his property by the
private marks. The (hoes when Bolen were in an
unfiniffied date, not having been bound round the
edges or lined, which improvement they bad re-
ceived fiace.
Elizabeth Wheeler (wore that the (hoes were all
bound before they were purchafed by Bentley.
Thompfon, in his defence Paid, that he found the
(hoes in a part of the yard where he frequently went
for a bit of wood to make a fire ; he deuied that he
had (Wen them.
Bentley laid that he had bought the (hoes from
Thomplon, and did not know that they had been
Bolen.
The Jury found Thompfon guilty of healing,
but not of the burglary, and acquitted Bentley.
Yalu' Godwin, an elderly man, for healing two
holies. a quantity of bumf', and tome wearing
apparel, laid as the property of Mils Horfeiey.
It appeared, that the horfes in queftson were let
to Mifs Horfeley on a job, a Lady who retitled
near Shepperton. The prifoner was a kind of iti-
nerant dealer, or pedlar, and vended his articles
frequently in the neighbourhood of the profecu-
tri x. The prifoner was (*ferret!, by one of the
witneffes, in that quarter, a day or two before the
robbery took place. One morning in the begining
of aft month, the coachman found the liable door
open, the two horfes, which were put in the over-
night, gone, as well as the various other articles
laid in the indiament. It appeared. that in a day
hor two after the affair took place, the prifoner of-
feted the hamefi in. queflion, to one of the wit-
neffes, fora guinea and a half : as alto two bodes
for tale, tamely fintilat to thole defcribed to have
been (oleo from Mifs Horfeley's (labile—he laid
they were the aroperty ofhis Mader. a Mr. Hind.
of Portland Place, who. he alledged. bad_ Om
him theltarnefs. and commidloned him to fell dm
hosfes.

A Mr. Benton, keeper of the Dolphin Ina and
fl,ble yard. in W.tthampton, fisted, that the pro-
toner. early in December, fold him a black geld-
ing, which he told him was one of four which his
mailer. a Mr. Huffey, had ordered him to difpvk
of, as be intended to replace them by four bays;
he gave hint eighteen guineas and .1 half for the
hotfe in queflion. In about ten days after, Mr.
Bentr.n was (hewn a hand-bill at Barnet, refpea-
ing the Itolen horfes, which convinced him the
hod' he had purchafed from the prifoner, was use

of them. An inquiry was let on.foot, when it ap-
peared that his eunjedure was right, and Ilse boric
was given up to the coachman of Mifs Hortsky,
and to Mr. Mafon, who had originally let them
to the profecutrix on hire, and by whom it was
duly identified. The fecund hods wakpasa
rd of.
The Learned Jude having foamed up. the evi-
•
dente to the fotegoing aid, the Jury, atter vest
fisortly deliberating, pionuun,:ed a verdidt
Guilty.
Nqj Ckarki and Hwy Boozes, for Ilesiieg. as

the 28th of December, a leg of pork, value 4.5. 6d.
the prooerts of Wiliam Jenkins.
It apra, ed th.t, the prosecutor is a pork but
cher, in Aldcrlgare dreet. On the above men-
tioned day, about twelve o'clock, he fen! his fer-
vant, a very young girl, with a tray containingtwo
legs of
.pork, to the Gentleman and Porter public.
bottle, in Nicholl-fquare, in that neighbourhood,
the owner of which had purchased one of them.
The girl delivered the leg of pork to the milts-el,
at the bar, which her hulband had felefted ; and
while this was doing the laid the tray upon the
bar counter. The two prifoners and another man,
it appeared, were drinking at the bar at the time,
and eyed the remaining leg of pork very atten-
tively ; the prifoner Charles took it up in his
hard to Irv* at it, and one of the others obferved,
1' that if it were baked it would Ihrink up to no-
thinr." The girl jull turned her head afide, when
theleg of pork and the party at the bar were gone.
The alarm. was given, and the profecutor accpusiut-
ed with the circumftance ; a purfuit took place,
and the two prifoners were met in Golden lane.—
They (troth, it appeared, offered the profeebtor
half a pinea to proceed no fu ther in the brifinefs.
This he refuted, and the prifoners endeavoured to
get away without effed.
The above circomaances being clearly proved
in evidence, and the defence of the prifoners not
being of a fatirfa&ory nature, the Jury had no he-
fitation in finding them both Guilty.
John Morgan, for Dealing a filver watch, value
hl. the gondk of William Smith, in the dwelling.
orde of Henry Smith.
The circumtlances of this cafe, though of a ca-
pital nature, were (hortly given in evinence. The
prifoner it appeared went into the houfe of the pro.
fecutor, in one of the streets near Bethnal Green,
and entered a room ono the Groond floor, where
William Smith, the fon of the profecutor, and a
young man, brother oldie former, were afleep in
bed; the lifting of the latch rather awakened
them. However, the prifoner boldly advanced,
took the watch off the peg on which it was hang-
ing near the bed's head, and walked off with it.—
The elder brother, to whom the watch belonged,
got up, jolt alarmed his father, and iu his fhirt ran
after the man ; he overtook him about twenty
yards from the houfe, and found the watch in his
poffeffion. The man begged his forgivenefs, and
faid. be had a wife and two children, who were
in want. - _ _ _

Thr prifoner, an elderly man, made no defence,
and Mr Juftice Rooks nbferred, that the whole
was made out againft the prifoner, if the
Jur v were of opini.m the watch was worth 4os.
The Jury then infpctned the watch, and after
eonfidcring a lit.le, found their vetcliet Guilty of
fieal;ng to the value of 39.5. which obviates the ca-
pital par of ;he charge.
s!for- Dover, for ttealing two pair of (beets,
feterat haadkerchiefs, lioefongs, and various other
articles of wearing apparel, in a dwelling houfe.
It appeared the had been employed as a chair-
woman, in the houfe of Mr Layton, a Chip broker.
She was generally fent for to *Ma the maid for
',ant whenever there was a watt. Mrs. Layton
frequently miffed tome of her things, and ufed to
1 cation her lots to the prifoner, who obferved: it
was a 46 fad thing ;" but denied all knowledge of
the articles loft. The profectstor st lan fent-for a
con liable, who came and fearched the fervant's
boa, In which nothing belonging to her snafter
was found. He then went to the ptifoner's lodg-
ings, which he fearched, and in a box he found
feveral pawnbrokers duplicates.
Two or thre. pawnbrokers came forward with
a variety of articles, which they Paid, the prifoner
bad pawned with them; and all thefe were favann
to by the profecotor.
It not having appeared that the hole to the va-
lue of 4cos. at any one time, the Jury left out the
:capital part of the chisige; and found her Guilty
of /leafing under that turn.
2.4. loner was capitally indiSed for healing two
.filver candletlicks, value Sl. in 'the dwelling hour.:
of Mrs. Penton, the property of H.nry Penton, Efq
Mrs. Elliott laid, that the lived in Wimpole-
ftreet, immediately oppofite Mrs. Penton's houfe
On the nth of November, between nine and ten
o'clock in the morning, (he law a man, to all al)•
pearance dreffed like a batch?r, going down the
area of Mrs. Penton's bottle; and to the bell of '
her recolleaion, the prifoner was the man.
John Starling Paid, he was footman to Mrs.
Penton, whole hutband did not live with her. On
the morning in quaint; he brought down the can,
dlefticks 61.1 in the indiatnent, Into the pantry, to
Glean them. Isle left them there, and went to his,
breakfaft. Soon after the baker knocked at the-
door with Come bread, which the witnefs took from
him, and went again to his breakfen. When he
had done he went into the pantry, and miffed the
candletticks. He went immediately and informed
the baker of his Infs. The baker Paid, as he was
going tip the area, after leaving bread at Mrs.
Penton's, he met a man, dreffed like a butcher,
who ohfervcd, that he kart came in good time, and
went down the area. The witnefi thought he was
the butcher who ferved the bottle with meat. He
did not take particular notice of him, therefore
could not fay he was the prifoner at the bar ;
that man had the fame kind of drefs on which he
afterwards law the partner in at Hatton-garden.
A fcrvant girl, who lived on the opposite fide
of the way, laid, the law a man, like a butcher, go
down the area on the morning in quenion ; and,
to the ben of her recolleSion, it was the miconer.
_ _

A conflable laid, he took the prifoner on th,
gth of December, in lirtinfwick.frynare,nn a flrong
fufpicion of his being a thief, becanfe he was, at
that time, in company with further man, looking
down the area of every houri in the allure. He
was than in the drefs of a butcher, having can a
blue jacket and a blue apron, and a ficel.
An officer belonging to HAtten-garden feid,th.it
after the prifoner was given into his caftneiy, and
lodged in confinement, lie very nearly effected
efcape, by breaking the roof of the place he w.ts
I .eked up in.—After a fhnrt deliberation, the Jury
tonnd the prifoner Arcs Guilty.
The prifoner is an old man ; and has all the ap-
pe ir ince of an old offender. He gave no account
of faimfelt; nor called any wimcfb w fpirak fur him.