Star.
London, England, 1803-01-20 00:00:00

OLD BRILL?'.

Yeflerday thirty prifoners were tried, twenty-
eye of whom were conviaed of felonies, viz.

7obn Scrition and Robert Cooper, for healing a
geld medallion and other articles, the property of
Dora Jordan.
Our Readers will recoiled that we, fometime
in December lalt, Rated that Mrs. Jordan's car.
rhge, while (landing at the gage door of Drury.
lane Theatre, hod been opened, and feveral jewels
which Mrs. Jordan had employed in the perfi.r-
snance of the evening, had been carried away.—
The prifoners were taken the following mottling,
and, upon fearching them, the articles stolen were
found. The officers produced the jewels, the iden-
tity of which was fully proved by Mrs. Jordan's
waiting maid, her footman, &c. The prifoners'
defence was that of all thieves in defperate fitua-
tions: they laid they had found the property.—,
The Jury without hefitation found them both—
Guilty.
When the verdk was returned, two of the Bow-
Avert officers came forward and Rated, that the
prifoner Cooper, had been twice tranfported, and
that Scruton had only been two months at home
once his Brit trip to Botany Bay.
The Common Serjeant inhantly pafred fentence,
ordering them to be again tranfported, each for
feven years.
afatavultr Wee, for Reuling various articles of
pbuesthe property of Mrs. Price.
Mrs. Price Paid, that fie live; in Lciceller.fquare,
and that on Sunday the 9th lila. her houfe was
robbed, by a man going over the rails of the area
about eight in the morning. She did not fee him
get over, but the law her property afterwards at
the office. _ _ _

A footman to the Rev. Ilir. Howe, who lodges
with Mrs. Price, Paid, that a hat belonging to the
witnefs was carried off. He had left it in the
kitchea the night before.
A maid fervant to Mrs. Price Paid, that about
eight on the Sunday mcrning the came into the
kitchen and law the prifoner at a chifet door
with a fponn in his haiid. She :irked him what
he wanted and told him if he did not lay down
the fpoon file would alarm the family.—He then
ran up the area (lairs, !allowed by the witnefs.—
He was feized by the milkman, and conveyed to
tbc watch honk, where he was learchcd, and a
table and tea Ipeon, a cloak, muff, the footman's
hat and band were found upon him. She was po-
fitive as to the prifonees per fon.
The milkman corroborated this evidence fo fir
as he was concerned.
The property ft.den was produced and fworn
to. The priruner made no defence.—Guilty.
Sarah Waller, for flealing the furniture of a tent
bed, and other articles, the property of Ifaac
Mendoza.
Pr&lla Mendoza Rated, that Ole and her hill
band live at No. a, Petticoat-lane. In the begin
ing of June (he let a back room tip one rair of
!lairs to the prifoner. She had a child with her,
!laid her Laband was a butler in a Nub;ent.tn's
family ; the room was let furnitir d for 55. a week;
the continued three week:, paid for a fortnight's
Ir.rtg'ng and went away. Jr teas theft ..:itcov:red
that fire had Men the facets and pii;ow cafes of
the bed, ar.d l'orne tel fpnons.
Ray, a pawnbroker, tiid, that on the :(h of
une, l,e r, ceived a pair of rivets in the name
Warner. tie could not reeo'.;ea
titer they were pawned by the rritoner or not. Ile
produced the fheets, which were two: n to by Mrs.
Mendoza. The prifoner was fot.nel Nrat Guilty.
She was tried up-i..inothA- int.:in:m:lr, fur tub-
bin+, her r-Ady fwitithed lodgit:gs.
Mrs, WI tiott laid the lived in Jol:n's.row,
and nn the 4th of December :he let the
rifonee a Iron, torn] twinned, with a ter triy,
fi.sirsr b'- ::r.s, (beets, Err. She remained in the
bonfe 111:!il the went away. The
w:int c. bad a tit-vinyl of the ptifoner, and about
ni;:iti::•s the had g' nc, (he tailed in her
opti,cd the Tonal door, when the
ff• • th..t. :he 1,2„:,,,ing bad Lai rr.bbed. A
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The paver tnaie no defence, but conrn;ttc:l
hcl entirely to the mercy of the Court.
%vas found Guilty.

The palmier is twenty-feven years of age, tall.
and .elegantly formed ; her face and whole ap
_arasice exhibited a degree of interefl which we
1111:crely lament to fee at the Bar of the Old Bailey.
is c had in her arms a very pretty infant about 12
or 7.t months old.
Warner a boy, about twelve years of
agti, was eiarged with healing on the 7th of De.
ctmber, two books, the property of John Eckford.
Tll7 prciciitor, it appeared, keeps a book•fhop
and hall is one of tie coitus branching from Bi-
hopfgatedireet ; that on the above day, about
eleven in the forenoon, he obferved from the 'hop
window, the priflmer eyeing the books on the
at kngth, lie took up the books in queflion, and
made uir with them. The profecutor ran after,
and came tip with him about twenty yards from
the limp. The prifoner at the moment dropt the
books—but Mr. Eckford gave him in charge to
an Officer. _

The prifener, in his defence, afrcrted that he
h.id never teen the books.

Four or five refpenahle witneffes appeared to
his chin-after; two of thefe were book-binders, in
whole krvice the prifoner had recently been, and
Paid they wonld willingly employ him again.—
Verdi&—Guilty.
ganinr Plunkett, was it:dieted for healing, on the
Loth of January, a ulcer watch, value 3os. the
goods of George Higgins.
The parties, it appeared, wore employed in a
public-honfe in Judd-Place, Somers Town, in the
two-fold charaifters of waiters and pot-boys. On
the above day the profecutor laid his watch on the
bed while he was changing his linen : be was not
long abfent, when, on his return, he milled the
watch. The prifoner, it appeared, had leave to
go to town that day, and it was proved, that in
the courfe of it he pawned the watch at a pawn-
broker's, at the corner of Shug.lane, for 11. Thefe
fin., being clearly proved, and the prifoner's de-
fence, though cireumltantial, not being fatisfac.
tory, the Jury pronounced him Guilty.
John Triter, for healing a pair of trowfers, and
an oil-(kin, the property of John Benn.
James White, fur ftealing a quantity of lead, the
property of John Weft.
Pa:r:ek Connor, for healing a cotton gown, and
other articles, the property of William Webb.
Richard Britain, for ftealing a pair of boots, the
property of John Leake, and was ordered to be
privately whipped and difcharged.
litiMardll/iMe,,for healing feveral pieces of elm,
the property of John Foller and another.
Mary Aldride, for healing a pair of hockings,
and other articles, the property of John Lacon.
Ri:bard &mew, for ftealing two curtains, the
property of Evan Lewis.
John Jones' for healing a pair of plated candle-
flicks, and other articles, the property of David
Wedderburn. .

Aim Law for Realing a flyer watch. the pro-
perty of William Robfon.
gobs Rutland, for ftealing a hammock. and
other articles, the property of Edward Lawton.
Edward Crow and Richard Say, for ftealing two
waiacoats and other articles, the property of
Thomas Lewis.

John Rpm, for healing four neckcloths, and
other articles, the property of Jofeph Gingell.
Tbomas Skinner, for healing eight boards, the
property of George Anon and others.
Mary Alexander, for healing a quart and a pint
pewter pot, the property of John Campbell.
And nine were acquitted, vit. john Strome,
Geo. Chapman, 7. Kelly, E. Doer, T. Weimer, S.
Solomon, and

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game: Hamm, charged with ftealing from the
perfon of Witham Browne, three (billings and
lixpence, and ten pennyworth of halfpence, his
property.
The circumftances on which this charge were
founded were rather curious :—This profecetor, a
difcharged foldier from the 35th regiment, and
the prifoner, a young lad, it appeared, were locked
up together on different charges, on the night of
the 4th of December, in St Martin's watch-houfe;
the piolecutor was confiderably intoxicated at the
time ; but a female companion of his, and who
came forward in the prefent inaance, informed
the conftable of the night and his myrmidons, that
Ile had received tss that day, of which he had
fpent fame part. On the next morning inquiry
was made, but it appeared Browne had no money
about him. The prifoner was queftioned as to
his conduct with refpelt to the profeetitor during
the night ; when he declared that he bad taken
nothirg from the profecntor ; however, on fel:arch-
ing him, the money laid in the indictment was
found in one of his (hoes; Tome of the Myer was
dirty, and for which a reafon was-given at the
time ; the cafe was pretty nearly made out againft
the prifoner, but the profecutor did not appear,
and the Court were of opinion, that his evidence in
Inch a cafe was indifpenfable ; of coutfe, the Jury
were conftrained to acquit the prifoner.
Richard Wood flit and gamer Reed, were indicted
I for healingqthintityof malt on the river Thames,
which they had been employed to remove from
one wharf to another. It appeared the removal
iS A greater qicantity than they had a right to,
originated purely in accident, and they were on
their way hack with it, when Come Officers of the
Ma;ifte Police intercepted the conveyance, and
.tpprehended them on fnfpicion of felony. The
nii,take, it alfo appeared, frequently happened,
nn: was there the reafon for fuppofing
the prifoners meant, in the prefent inflance, to
dc.tl otherwife than with the ftrieteft honefty.—
Tiiey were honourably acquitted, and the Officer
wl,o preferred the charge againft them was repri-
manded by the Judge.