Star.
London, England, 1829-09-17 00:00:00

WALICIR W. LYOM.

Courrsitv opened the pleadings ; Mr. Haououms stated the
rase. The damages were laid at 500/.
Ann Hinckley—l am the sister to Miss Walker, theplaintiff,
srd live at Liverpool In the year 1824 my sister formed part of
my f-ther's family at Eccles; Mr. Lyon was there. My sister
and Mr. Lyon were on trims of courtship, and were so acknow-
ledged. Mr. Lyon said that he intended to marry my sister. Mr.
Lyon's father was alive at that time. Mr. Lyon said that he in-
tended to marry my sister after his father's death ; his father died
in 1825. After his death, the defendant said that be meant to
marry my sister in a short time ; my sister was there at the time ;
he spoke of her in terms of the greatest respect. He said he meant
to live at Crosby, a watering place near Liverpool, after his father's
death. He said he meant to have livery servants after his father's
death, and that he should be very comfortable. The same week
that his f ‘ther died I had conversation with him.

%Ira. Walker examined—T am the mother of Miss Mary Walker :
my daughter is now £9 years of age. Mr. Lyon came to live
wi.h us many years ago ; he lived with us for four years. He went
to his father's house at Pendleton. I have often seen Mr. Lyon
my daughter's admirer; he often said he would marry her and
make her his wife. He called Miss Walker sometimes Miss Polly,
and said he should make her his wife after his father's death. His
father's house was about a mile and a half from us, and he fre-
quently came to see her after his father's death, and they were
:raking up the wedding, and I expected that the time would be
fixed. She used to talk to him about it; b► followed her into the
garden, and said he meant to be married immediately. On one
occasion he said, " It was better to be awhile," be had got into debt ;
he had debts to pay. He kept coming until a month of his mar.
riage with Miss Wood, his father's housekeeper. The last time
he came he talked with my daughter for two or three hours ; he
said be would buy her one of the finest gowns, but I said, s` I
suppose your promieu will be as they used to be ;" that was a
month before his marriage. The wedding was made up before his
tather's death, and every time he came I expected that the time
would be fixed. He talked of his father's circumstances. He had
no brothers nor sisters. It was a nice house (his father's) ; there
was only one servant, Miu Wood. He had not much land—a little
bit of a field, a garden, and orchard. After be went to his father's
house be kept a couple of horses—his servant rode after him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Poccoex—l cannot remember the day
of the month or the year that he first came to us. His father, the
first pat of the time, paid us fifteen shillings per week—l may be
mistaken. After that I think he paid us not so much—thirteen
shillings per week. His father was a very wary man. One part of
the time he went to Manchester. The first part of this time
he used to walk about; he had no servant—he had no dog—
be had no gun. My husband got him from the ale-house,
and be became very steady. We amended him very much.—
Common report was, that he was very much addicted to drink-
ing. He came to us to be kept steady. He very seldom got to
the ale-house; be might sometimes got there. I have sometimes
seen him a little " intosicattd," but not very much—a little fresh.
He had no library—he had a few books. I think he bad no Bible;
he had three or four dictionaries—(Bursts of laughter). He bad
some other little books. I cannot say that be had a prayer-book,
nor do 1 know the name of any of his books. He was very good
for going to the ale-house--I mean for keeping away—(Laughter).
By Mr. Baotronau—The circumstance had a great effect on her
daughter. She was very unhappy in mind ; and she (witness)
feared the river, which was very near. It had injured her cha-
racter—hurt her health, and she had never bad a well day since—
( Great merriment and laughter).
Other witnesses were called, who deposed to several of the cir-
cumstances, and stated that the defendant had boasted that his
father was worth 20 or 30,000 L—that the defendant would get
drunk if he had money, and if be had none would drink upon credit
whenever be could obtain it—that he had been many times Lipsey
while at Mr. Walker's, and that he would sometimes lie in bed
for four or five days. One of the witnesses bad been his com-
panion on those occasions, and they were six of one
and half-a-ddxen of the other ; when a man had no-
thing to do he got drunk—(Laughter)—and the defendant had
nothing to do all the year.—The askings had been put up. and
Miss Walker went there at that time. On their way back some
musicians were met, to whom a shilling was given to play " Come
haste to the Wedding," and ft was insinuated that there was a
mock marriage ceremony performed, by license, and that a " coach
bill" was the representative of that important document. The
defendant married in June, in the last year.
Mr. Poccoet made a powerful address to the Jury.
Mr. Justice LITTLIDALI briefly summed up. There were two
euestions for the Jury; the first was, was there a promise made?
und the second, if so, what damages was the plaintiff entitled to?
About ten o'clock at night the Jury retired from the Court, and
in about twenty minutes brought in a verdict for the plaintiff.—
Damages, One Farthing.

CHESTER ASSIZES.
LIBEL

SNITD v. Giurruns.—The plaintiff is a young nun engaged in
trade in Chester ; and the defendant a printer, residing in the
same city. The libel complained of was a band-bill, giving a de-
scription of a sham fancy ball, held at a tavern called the Sara-
cen's Head, and kept by a very respectable widow lady. Its this
hand-bill the names of a number of respectable trades-people, who
were in the habit of spending their evenings in this house, were
mentioned at lull length, with the supposed characters in which
they appeared on this occasion at the fancy ball. The libel was
merely the collecting together and embodying, in a printed form,
the coarse jokes upon the moral or physical defects of one another,
tandied viva me by the members of this coterie. A great portion
of it was absolutely unfit to meet the eye of a modest woman, and
the band-bill was extensively circulated through the post-office,
Insides being handed about the city. The following is the portion
of libel set out in the record :

" Mrs. —'s (we forbear to mention the name) annual enter-
tainment took place on Monday evening, at the Saracen's Head.
At seven o'clock the numerous and splendid characters began to
arrive ; and on ascending the staircase (elegantly decorated for the
occasion) the company were regaled with a delicious perfume. is-
suing from an elegant pewter urinal in which was a large foaling
light. In some parts of the room sets were formed for fuddling,
while others were engaged in rattling the ivories. Charley Hard-
ing's band was in attendance, and an extra Jew's harp was engaged
for- the occasion. The number of •isitors was about forty, of
whom the drunkards and gormandizers preponderated in a great
degree.

" Below we give a list of the company, with a correct descrip-
tion of the dresses and characters of each; several of the company,
though contrary to the regulations, were in masks.
(Here follow several names.)
" Mr. Sneyil (the plaintiff) on this evening was a perfect Pro-
teua—evrry thing by turns and nothing long, not even his —.

He first appeared as Death on the Pee Horse ; idly, as Burke, the
Body-snatcher, and looked the character well. He was a perfect
herald from the gallows. Third, as the Genius of Famine, with
horror in his looks, and hunger in his guts ; and lastly, as Quid-
nunc, made some trite and common place observations upon poli-
tiL,, a subject he evidently knew nothing of.

The defendant was not the printer of the band-bill, but was pro-
ceeded against as the publisher, in consequence of his having given
a copy of it to one individual, and having read it in public com-
pany at another time. He bad boasted that be knew the author,
but refused to mention his same. Ia the course of the trial the
author's name was elicittd, and he appeared to be one of the par-
ties himself, as well as a brother of his, grossly libelled in the bill.
To rebut the presumption of malice, the Counsel for the de-
feriant caused the following paasage to be read, where the author
ks of himself and his brother—
.' Mr. T. Tophari, as a broken down blackleg, was an awful
warning to the company of the result of early gambling. His
countenance exhibited the effects of a premature decay, arising
!Juin tippling raw brandy.
• . . .
" Mr. G. Topbam. (the author's brother) appeared perfectly at
home as the Bailie Imp,, and hoaxed the company with a dozen
long speeches, all of the same nature, though upon different tub-
jt cis ; as liesi,vh 3.105 y, a Jew Doctor, tie underwent the operation
of circumcision, for the amusement of the company. This part of
the entertainment elicited the warm approbation of Mrs. —, and
the attendant families."

The reading of the libel elicited roars of laughter in the Court.
For the defence several witnesses were called, whose names
were included in this notable production, who said that they con-
mdered the whole matter only as a juke, and wed nothing about
it. It was also in evidence that the bill was primed at Liverpool,
:i,d not by the defendant, but the printer declined to answer most
sot the questions put to hint.
The Jury I4,uud a verdict for the plaintiff, with Forty Shillings
damages.
This is only the first of a series of actions; the unfortunate de-
fendant will have to run the gauntlet through all the forty names
as plaintiffs, as the consequence of his Imprudent boasting that be
knew more of this business than it is believed he really did.
The Assizes terminated this afternoon. Hanshall, for shooting
the gamekeeper, is left foe execution ; but Wyatt, for stabbing
a knobstick, at Stockport, is reprieved, and it is supposed will not
suffer.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Sept. 16.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Gomez.)
CIIIIOY-11011111 FORGERY.

Richard Huband Jones, Thomas Maynard, and Jo-
seph Wise. West, were Indicted for forging and uttering as true, a
counterfeit warrant or order for the payment of the sum of 1,9731.
with intent to defraud his Majesty. A second count stated the in-
tent to be to defraud Sir Wm. Bootbby, Bart. and others.
Sir W. Bocrrnar, Mr. Losouravon, Hon. W. Lamm. Sir R.
Bums, and several other Gentlemen, sat upon the Bench.
The Arroamtv- Gamut., Mr. BOLLAND, and Mr. Suarmean, ap-
peared for the prosecution ; and blears. BILODIUCK, Am:menus, and
Names, for the prisoners.
Before the case was opened,
Mr. BRODUCK said that he appeared for the prisoner Jones, who
was charged with being both principal and accessary before the
fact. He now submitted that the Attorney-General ought to state
upon which of the char:es he meant to proceed.
The objection was argued at considerable length by the Counsel
on both sides, and after a long consultation between Mr. Justice
Games, Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, and the RICORDIX, the former
over-ruled the objection, and decided that the Attorney-General
should not be put to his election, but said that a note of the ob-
jection should be taken for the opinion of the twelve Judges, the
Court not being quite certain upon the subject.
Mr. Smeenzan then opened the pleadings, and the Arroassav-
Gammas. stated the case to the Jury, as it subsequently appeared
by the evidence for the prosecution.
Samuel Robert Ewer—l am a clerk in the Comptroller-Gene-
ral's Office ; the papers produced were given to me on Saturday,
the 18th of April, between twelve and two o'clock in the day ; I
have no recollection of the person who presented them to me.
Edward Homan—l am assistant to the Comptroller-General,
and the papers produced were brought to me. I think they were
brought by Maynard, but I cannot identify bins. I marked the
papers for payment with my initials, supposing then to be gamine.
After I mark papers, the usual course is to go to the Treasury for
payment. The Clerk of the Treasury not having money, came to
me for a check, which I gave him. After this fraud had been
committed, I traced a 51 note. which had been paid as part of the
check to a baker of the name of Bristow. The note produced is
the one I traced. The name of Maynard is on the note.
William Dickinson stated the usual course of proceeding in the
payment of the warrants. It was the duty of the prisoner, Jones,
to report to the principal of the Department the business of the
office. It was my duty, or that of the chief clerk, to countersign
those warrants before they left the office. I have no recollection
of the persons who brought the present warrant to be signed, but
my signature is to it.
Charles Williams, of the department of the Custom House, is
that of Northern clerk. The initials to the order produced are mine.
Mr. Cust—l am one of the Commissioners of the Customs, and
the signature of my name to the warrant produced is not mine.
The Hon. Henry Legge—The signature of my name to this
warrant is not my writing. •
Mr. Lushington deposed to the same effect.

William En-swarth—l am Collector of the Customs at the port
of Fowey, in Cornwall, and my signature to this warrant is not
my writing.
William Hickman—l paid the ticket Ato two persons, and I
think Maynard was one of them; of the other I have no recollec-
tion. I asked the person who presented it how he would wish it
paid, and he said in two 5001. notes, nine 10e/. one 501. and the
remainder in small notes. The two 5001. notes were dated the 6th
of April, and the 1001. notes were dated the 11th of April. The
note produced is one of them. I have no doubt whatever of this.
I remember the person who presented the ticket, and I think
Maynard is the person. There appeus to be a name blotted out
on the face of the note fur 1001. now produced.
John Hall—l am in the Pay Clerk's Office In the Bank, and I
paid this check in conjunction with the last witness. The notes
produced are part of the notes paid upon that occasion. The num-
bers of the 5001. notes were 2,5.7.6 and 2,657.

Thomas Benjamin Kingston—l am a clerk in the Teller's Ofßee,
and paid sovereigns on the 18th of April fur two sbol. notes and a
501. note. I should think, by the size and height, that the prisoner
Jones was the person who presented them. The numbers of those
notes were 2,536 and 2,537.

Jeffrey Taylor—l was the ant person who had a suspicion of
the forgery. lam s clerk in the efface of the Comptroller-Ge-
neral. I know Jones. This forgery was frequently the subject of
conversation in the office. It was generally known that the notes
were stopped at the Bank, and the prisoner must have known it as
well as others.

John Grove-1 am a clerk in the banking-house of Masterman
and co. I know Jones since the 517th of April. He, on that
day, opened an account at our office, by depositing £758 in gold.
That sum bas since been drawn out.

Cross-examined—l received the moaey from him myself. The
last of it was drawn out on the 6tb of August.
William Poole Maugur—l am clerk in the Secretary's Office in
the Custom House. I know Jones about three years; in 11128 I
knew him to be in difficulties; the amount I paid for him was 1001.
part of which was given to me by a relative of his, and part was
deducted from his own salary. luw him in June, and he told me
his wife had been left by a relative the sum of 7001. and a piano ; I
advised him to invest it.

Croat-examined—l had been intimate with him. His difficul-
ties were quite concluded in. February, 1829. It was a male rela-
tive who advanced the money ; that relative was a man of great
respectability and opulence; he had no communication with the
prisoner, but caused the money to pass through my hands.
Smith, the Bow-street officer, deposed to his having watched a
house at Walwonh and another at Honon, from the latter of
which he saw West and his wife and children depart in a hackney
coach. Pursued them to Taunton, and took West and Maynard
there, at the Black Horse public-house. This was on the 49th of
August. Maynard had 5.801. in notes in his possession.
Several other witnesses having been examined, and having
proved onthing material,
Mr. BILODRICK proceeded to contend that there was nothing in
the evidence to warrant the supposition that the prisoner Jones was
an accessary before the fact, wherefore he submitted he ought net
to be called on for a defence.
Mr. BOLLAND and lir. &thrum, contra, were heard in reply.
The Comer said, that although it could not say what effect the
evidence would have on the minds of the Jury, yet there was quite
enough to justify calling on the prisoner for his defence.
The forged instrument was put in and read in evidence, upon
which the case for the prosecution closed.
The prisoner Jones put in a written defence, in which he denied
all knowledge or participation in the forgery.
The other prisoners also asserted their innocence.
St veral Gentlemen from the Custom House gave Jones a good
character.
Mr. Justice Gimes summed up the evidence at great length.
The Jury consulted together for a few moments, and then the
foreman asked Mr. Beaumont whether there was a particular form
for the forged precept, which could be obtained only by those ac-
quainted with the routine of business in his office.
Mr. Beaumont replied that the instrument was drawn up after a
particular form ; but added that he would have paid it if in differ-
ent words, provided it was properly signed.
The Jury then retired, and after an absence of three quarters of
an hour returned into Court with a verdict finding Jones and May-
nard guilty, the former as acceuary before the fact, and the latter
of uttering; but acquitting West.
The trial lasted till neatly nine o'clock.

John Hill, aged 58, was indicted for stealing a gelding, the pro.
perty of John Ballard, on the 23th of August last.
It appeared that the horse on the above day was seen grazing on
Stanmore Common, but was not there the next morning, and in
the course of the next day he was offered for sale to a horse
slaughterer, who detained it. The prisoner, who offered it, then
said that be had bought the horse of a Mr. Wright, at King's
Langley.

It; his defence to-day, however, he said that he gave 48s. for the
horse on the road to a mat. he did not know.—The Jury found
hinsGsulty. _

Margard Barry was convicted of robbing Thomas Biaggi of nine
sovereigus, in a house of ill fine.
NEW COURT.
Before the Comreux SaecgANT.

Wm. Snew, a lad only 13 years old, was indicted for stealing, on
the ZOth of July, 6,000 needles, and other articles, of the value of
GOs. the property of hi. employer+, Messrs. iltnherh.nt and Grin-
sell, linendrapers, Shoreditch ; and Martha Snow, the mother of
the prisoner, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing
them to have been stolen.

The property was Identified as that of Messrs. Rotherham and
Grinsell, by two of their shopmen ; and a police officer proved that
he found it at the lodgings of the female prisoner.
The Jury found third both Gaily, but recommer
mercy, in which they were joined by the proaecutors.
Ralph George Marlin, aged 28, second officer on board the East
India ship the Catherine Stewart Forbes, was indicted for stealing
on hoard that ship, on the Sib of August, one hundred and seventy
dollars, the property of Mr. Wm. Robert Briggs, the first officer.
The prosecutor stated that, on the day named in the indictment,
be had occasion to go on shore, the ship then lying In the London
Docks. On returning on board be missed the 170 dollars, and, on
making an active search for them, fifty-eight of them were found
In the prisoner's cabin, in a night-cap.
Mr. C. Putuars, for the prisoner, cross-examined the witness.
He admitted that on the night previous to the low of his dollars,

them to

be had taken a common woman of the town with him on board,
and that she had remained there with bins until siz o'clock on the
following evening.
Mr. Fell, third officer of the Catherine Stewart Forbes, swore,
that on the night previous to the dollars being missed, he was con-
fined to his cabin by illness. His cabin adjoins that of Mr. Briggs,
in which the dollars were deposited. Witness heard a noise in Mr.
Brigg's cabin, as though some one was pouring dollars into a bag
or night-cap.
On his cross-examination by Mr. PUILLIPS, the witness admit-
ted that the prisoner was a most honourable young man, and that
the prosecutor and all the officers of the ship were on the most
amicable terms with him during the whole voyage. Witness was
not certain whether it was the prisoner be beard in the cabin of
Mr. Briggs. It was three weeks after the dollars were lost that
the prisoner was apprehended.
James Evans. a surveyor of the Thames Police, swore that the
prisoner went willingly with him before the Magistrate.
Several witnesses proved that the prisoner bore an excellent I
character, and the Jury, without troubling the Learned Judge
to sum up the evidence, immediately returned a verdict of Not
Gsc try.
Samuel Fisher, aged 30, a private soldier in the Life Guards, was
indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house of Rickard Blake, on
the 24th of August, a gold watch and chain, of the value of 101.
the property of Matilda Parlett.
The prosecutriz, a young woman of very respectable appearance,
met the prisoner in the New-road, between noon and one o'clock,
on the 24th of August. He at first made some common-place oh-
servations about the weather, and walked with her towards Glou-
cester-place, where she was going to see an uncle, who lived at
No. 22. The prisoner waited at the bottom of Gloucester-place,
where witness met him on her return. The prisoner then invited
her to have something to drink, to which she at length consented,
and they went to the Little Cannon, in Upper Norton-street,
where the prisoner provided a beef-steak, and they remained drink-
ing ale and gin together. People were going in and out of the
house, and an elderly lady and her husband came in and staid con-
versing with the prosecutrix for about an hour and a half. The
prisoner was sitting by my side all the time. He heard my watch
tick, and asked arse if I had a watch. I said " No" at first, and
afterwards I said, " I will defy you or any other man to take it
from me." It was tied to my waist by a strong piece of tape. In
about five minutes after the lady and gentleman left, the prisoner
also went out without wishing her " good bye," and she imme-
diately missed her watch, which had been cut from her side.
Robert Blake, the landlord, proved that the prosecutriz, when
she complained of the robbery, was the worse for liquor ; and the
(biartermaster of the first regiment of We Guards deposed, that
on coming to the barracks with Mr. Blake to complain of the rob
bery, she gave a false name and address (the paper was produced,
and admitted by the prosecutrix to be in her hand-writing). The
prosecutriz had positively sworn she bad not given such an ad-
dress. On searching the prisoner and his box no watch or dupli-
cate was found. The prisoner had been for ten years and a half
in the regiment, and to the knowledge of the witness bore an un-
impeached character, and he attended by the order of the com-
manding officer to state as much.
Lieut. George Thomas Pultener stated " that no man in the
regiment bore a better character." •
The Jury, without hesitation, immediately Acquitted the pri-
soner.

The prosecutrix mounted the witness box and said " My Lord,
may I have my expences?"
Alderman Vraaaxas, who was on the Bench with the Coxxox
Sesame:, immediately turned to the Jury, and said, " Gentlemen,
do you thiuk she deserves to have bet expences?"
The Jury upon this consulted for a few,seconds, when the Fore-
man turned round. and addressing the .Court, said," We think,
my Lord, her expenses should be alluded ber."
This was accordingly ordered.

Edward Tons, a boy only 12 years of age, was indicted for steal-
ing a silver watch, the property of James Tyler.
The prosecutor stated that he was a watchmaker, and lived in
Mary-la-boune. The prisoner was in the habit of coming back-
wards and forwards to his house on errands. lie missed the
watch in question on the 24th of July. He had since seen and
identified it.
Daniel Carter, anotberlad, stated that on the lit of August the
prisoner offered to sell Mtn the watch for 7s. and that he at length
purchased it of him for 4s. 6d.
Webster, an officer, stated that in consequence of information he
bad received. he Apprehended the prisoner. Verdict—Guilty.
Mr. Wontner informed the Court, that although so young, the
prisoner had been tried there three times before, and that he was
quite incorrigible.
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