Star.
London, England, 1820-10-28 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Twenty-tvfo perions (thirteen men and nine women),
were yesterday arraigned, chirged with havingforged
notes of the Bank of England in their possession,- and
with uttering them, knowing them to be forged.
Sixteen of them pleaded guilty, of. having notes in
their possession—and six (all women) pleaded not
guilty to the charges generally, and will take their
trials for the capital offence. Those who had pleaded
guilty to the minor charge were acquitted of the
other, and will be transported for 14 years.
Sophia Aargau was indicted for stealing in the
house of F. Bayliss, a gold watch, chain, and seals,

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his property.
The prosecutor was the keeper of a brothel in the
neighbourhood of Finsbury-square, and the prisoner,
in September last, came to lodge there, paying largely
for her accommodation. Some time after the pro-
secutor's wife missed her watch, and discovered that it
had been pledged by the prisoner at a pawnbroker's,
in Bishopsgate-street, for eight guineas. The pro.
soner about the same time, absconded, and was traced
to Northold, near Emsworth, Hants, where she was
apprehended with part of the notes paid for the watch
in her possession.
On cross.examination, the prosecutor said, his
wife had gone by various names before and since be
married her.
J. Norton was called for the prisoner. who swots
that he was uncle to Mrs. Bayliss, the prosecntoes
wife, and that, in some cases, he would not believe
her on her oath.
Mrs. Norton also said, she did not consider 365.
_Bayliss ought to be believed on her oath.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, Death—but
recommended her to mercy on account of the infa-
mous character of the prosecutor and his wife.
Mr. Justice PARKS said the recommendation should
certainly be attended to, and-refused to allow them
'their expenses.
Mare Leonard, alias Napkins was indicted for
stealing one £lO, and seven El Bank notes, the pro-
perty of Mary Green, in her house.
The prosecutris was a laundress, having a large
family to support, and the prisoner bad occasionally
worked for her. • In February last she went to the
prosecntris to borrow a £1 note, and the latter took,
notes to the amount of £lB from a stocking, in which-
she kept her little store, and gave the prisoner the
sum she wanted. The prisoner saw the other notes,
and she afterwards called several times on trifling
errands, and at length she was limed altogether
from the neighbourhood. The prosedurix also missed
her notes from the stocking, and after a lapse of several
months the prisoner was apprehended and the notes
traced to her pessession.—Verdict, Guilty—Death.

Thursday afternoon, a little before five o'clock, as
a Gentleman was proceeding along the Strand, near
Charing-crow, observing a crowd approaching
him
from Charing-cross, and suspecting from their disor-
derly conduct that drey were pickpockets, he, in
order to avoid them, stepped into the boot-maker's
shop at the corner of St. Martin's-lane, intending to
wait until they had passed. As.soon as he had en-
tered the shop, the crowd, amounting to
.twelve or
fourteen men, came up to the.shop door and rushed'
into the shop, apparently as if they had pushed each
other in,. but their object instantly became apparent,
as they, in the most daring and outrageous.manner,
immediately seized hold of the Gentleman, forcibly.'
dragged him out of the shop, and when they got him
into the street, they were joined by others, supposed
to amount to the number of forty, who proceeded to
ill-treat him' and robbed him of a valuable watch,
chain and seals, lac. with which the whole of them
made their escape.
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