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longer, there. Mrs. Neile sometimes fetched witness oons: aid" No." The witness then wished to take the'
medicine. Gent often said that if his wite died, as Mrs..prisoner's hat of, but the prisoner refuwd, and a con.
Needle was a respectabletwomao, and took his fancy, he stable was sent for. In the meantime, Griffith said, " If
would marry her. Witness drove the late Mrs Gent out' he was in the prisoner's situation as a servaet, suspected
on one occasion. and Gent directed hint to find out Whe-1 of such a charge, he would consent to be searched hi-
ther rho lad heard that he was courting Mrs. Neile, and; smutty." The prisoner then took off his hat, and said
said they never should live happy any more. Heasited; the Bate which was found in die bag in his hat (about
Mrs. Gent about it ? and she said she never paid any at.: 21b.) was his own. It was examined, and one of the chips
tention to stores, and said it was easy to give a dog an found in it, and the other in the sack from whence the
ill name and hang him. A few days after his wile's flour bad been taken. The prosecutor produced a piece
death Cent said he would marry. Mrs. Neile as soon as, of wood from which the chips had been cot, with which
he had arranged—the funeral. Witness said her cha. they were both found to correspond exactly.
ratter was as good as hishand Gent said let the world Griffith and the coestablecorroborated the testimony
say what it would he would marry her. Soon after., of the prosecutor.
wards he and Gent were at Stoney Stratford. on their; Several witnesses who had kobwo the prisoner for
way home. Gent said, yon can say I did not go to twenty years gave him an excellent character.
meet Mrs. Neile. Plaintiff's attorney told witness, to Mr. Baron Vauouhto, in summing up, said the Jury
mind what he said to.day ; that if he said what was; must not take the character of the prisoner into consi.
wrong he would be able to contradict him. Witness deration fora moment,though it would have due weight
observed be would say what was true, and plaintiff said in the sentence the Court would pronounce. It the Jury
he might Ant up ahop. had any doubt of the prisoner's guilt, they would give
Cross-examined-ad:Lis wife had formerly served Mr. him the benefit of that doubt.—Gailty.
Gent, sad bad now left him. Witness was "under Gent's Mr. B ron VAUGHAN, in passing sentence, observed
claws," because he is the parish doctot, and witness is a that the public were much indebted to the prosecutor
pauper. Mrs. Neile bad in her house persons who were for bringing this case before the Court. No one could
ill with cancer, whom Gent attended. Mrs. Gent said suppose that the profit to be derived from so trifling a
she did not bilieve the reports respecting Gent, because quantity of flour in this one instance could have
he was always of a meddling character. been sufficient to induce the 'prisoner to hazard the
Some other witnesses were called, among them Mrs. good character that had been given him. If, therefore,
flick, who was present at the conversation deposed to he bad been to that advanced period of life carrying on
by Martha Ingram, and who denied that the words successfully a system of robbery, it was time his real
sworn to by her were used by the defendant. She also character was unmasked. In taking into consideration
stated that Martha Ingrain was accustomed to tell stories. the CHEM stances of the case, and the punishment it
The defendant's Counsel then called two witnesses, deserved. he had not forgotten that the prisoner bad
who proved,abat these were sick persons who lodged in been used to work in a mill, and this county fortunately
Mrs. Neill house whom Mr. Gent attended, and that afforded an opportunity of his being employed again in
she was by profession a nurse, and sometimes a the same way. The sentence of the Court was, that the
charwoman. prisoner should be imprisoned in the House of Correc-
Tne Counsel having replied upon the question, the lion for one year, and be kept to hard labour during
Learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the Jury that period:
returned a verdict for the defendant. James Ayres was indicted, charged with having, on
Jun.y 24. the night of the 22d of December last, burglariously
ABINGDON.
Crown Mc—Before Mr. Baron Vameas. broken and entered the house of Rachael Wise, at
HORSE STEALING. Cockpole, in this county, and stolen therefrom four
Charles Dormer was indicted, charged with having sides of bacon, a chine, a firkin of butter, some beef,
stolen, on the 15th inst. at Woking, in the county of tobacco, and various other articles.
Seeley, a chestnut gelding, the property of Isaac Hodd. The prosecutriz stated, that she kept a small chan-
James Strong, a cottager, residing in the road be. diet's shop at Wargrave, and on the night in question
tween Barkham and Okingham. in this county, stated, she went to bed, having previously fastened up her shop
that about five o'clock in the morning of the 16th inst. securely. The next morning she found the door had
he was aroused by the prisoner calling out under his been torn from the hinges, and the property described
window, " Mistress, mistress !" On looking out the pri- in the indictment taken away.
sonar asked permission to leave the horse in question The prisoner was proved to have been one of a no-
at the witness's cottage while he wait to Okingham to torious gang who had long plundered that part of
get a tooth out. Having no shed or stable, the witness the country : one of them had been tried and convicted
allowed the horse to be tied to an apple tree in his garden, at the last Assizes, and transported for life. The
the prisoner promising to give him 6d. for his trouble.— wife of that offender was the principal witness
Suspecting the horse to have been stolen, the witness against the present prisoner, and deposed to seieralscoth
gave information to the constables of Rathbun, and venation* with him, in which be had admitted his para.
with them followed the prisoner and overtook him on cipation in different robberies. She proved that in one
she road to Bingham. As they were conveying him of the conversation', the prisoner had said, "He could
before a Magistrate, they met a neighbour, named nita do the lock of the prosecetrix's door, but was
Spencer, who was following them with the horse. On obliged to burst it off the binges." The implements
being asked if the horse was kis? the prisoner said it which bad been employed, and were the common pro.
was, and that he bad bought it in Kent for 121. A petty of the gang, were found in a barn to which the
beadle which the prisoner had when he first called at prisoner had access, and consisted of a crowbar, a bell.
fitrong's cottage was subsequently found concealed la muzzled brass pistol. and a dark lantern.
a drain ;he claimed it, and on examination, it was found Mr. Baron Vatuonew, in summing up, observed that'
to contain a pistol loaded with powder and stone, two the Jury should be cautious how they received the tes-
pieces df soap, and a pair of trousers. timony of the wife of a person who had belonged to the
On being taxed with having stolen the horse, the pri- gang, unless they felt satisfied that it was corroborated
sorter said, " It was a bad job; be should be hanged if by other evidence. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
they did not let him go, and it would do them no good Mr. Baron Vasuotten said. that if not left for execs-
to get a fellow creature hanged—they would get no- tion, be must expect to quit the country for life.
thing by it." At this time a person named Hicks came CIVIL SIDE.
up, and recognized him as being formerly an inhabitant The Court was occupied the whole day with the trial
of that neighbous hood. Before the Magistrates he said of causes possessing no public interest.
be merely took the horse to ride, because he was tired NORTHAMPTON, JOLT s4.—Bsfon Mr. Judea Bomar&
and foot sore. Joke Quin and Michael Carman, two privates of the
Isaac Hodd, the prosecutor, proved that the horse 67th Regiment of Foot, were indicted, the former for
was safe in his field, at Woking, on the night of the 15th stealing, and the latter for receiving, upwards of 1001.
instant. On the morning of the 16th, the gate was off in Bank notes, and a gold watch, value 50 guineas, the
its binges, and the horse was gone. The horse found property of Captain Wm. Blair, of the same Regiment.
with the prisoner was his horse. It appeared that the Regiment is quartered at Weed=
Charles Hart, a neighbour of the prosecuior's, who barracks, and the prosecutor, in whose service Quin had
bad gone in search of the horse, proved that he tracked been until about two months before the Ist July, on that
the horse along the toad from Woking to Okingham. evening missed the property in question upon his return to
The horse bad lost a bind shoe. Witness saw the pri. his room, which he bad left unlocked when be went mt.
seiner loitering about at Woking the day before the In consequence of information which be received, he seat
robbery was committed. Woking is 90 miles from for Quin, who told him where some of his money was.
where he was apprehended. Upon going there, she prosecutor found the money. It
The prisoner, in his defence, said, that as be was going further appeared that Quin had given part of the pro-
through Woking, be found the horse in a lane, and petty to the other defendant Canovan, and a soldier
being tired, he got up and rode it. He left it at hark- named Gorman, (admitted King's evidence) between
ham, intending to see if he could find the owner. He whom it was agreed that they all three should desert,
never thought of stealing it or selling it. He hoped his and go to America with the money. After an inves-
Lot dship would be as easy with him as he could. tigation which lasted for six bouts, the Jury returned a
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN having summed up, the Jury verdict of Gaily against both prisoners.—No other cue
found the prisoner Guilty. of any importance occurred here to-day.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, in proceeding to pass sentence, WINCHESTER, Isar 24.
said, that much as he abhorred shedding blood, be bad At twelve o'clock this day, after the Lord Chief Jut-
rarely met with a case which deserved more than this tice Base and Mr. Justice BuaaouoH attended Divine
did the utmost penalties the law could inflict. Service at tbe Cathedral, the business of this Circuit
Prisoner—l am sorry for it. commenced. The fottner sat at the Civil, and the latter
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN said, when he found that the at the Crown side.
prisoner had only returned from transportation about a After the usual ceremony of reading the Proclama-
month when he committed this offence,—that in the tions was performed, Mr. Justice Boatman charged
year 1814 he had been convicted of highway robbery. the Grand Jury (of which Sir G. Rose, Baronet, was
and in 1817 of burglary—his present offence (heinous as Foreman). He observed that there were few cases of
it was in itself) was much aggravated. The prisoner. at any moment to be submitted for their consideration,
the time of his apprehension. might well observe that except one which had that morning been transmitted
he should be hanged. • Sentence of death would be re- from Gosport, and the depositions relating to it he had
corded against him ; but his life, it was possible, might not yet had time to read. He understood, however,
still be spared. that a man named John Sullivan, and a woman named
Prisoner—l hope so, my Lord: when I was in New Betty Clai k, stood charged with hating strangled ono-
South Wales, I worked hard, and got a good character thee person, a sailor, as it was supposed, from a motive
there. I worked hard for three years. of jealousy ; t erhaps the Grand Jury would see that
Mr. Baron Vauostato had heard that, which was the the woman was not sufficiently implicated to be in-
only thing in his favour: he was sorry lie had ever left eluded in the capital offence. Be) ond ad doubt, the
it ; he would now be sent- there again. but not to return. man's death was caused by real and atrocious violence;
The sentence of the Court was, that he should be trans- whether, however, a charge of murder could be brought
ported for life. h me in this este against the parties now implicated re-
Prisoner—Thank you, my Lord. I shall be glad to go. mined to be seen. It resolved itself into a matter of
Thomas Vete, aged 60. was charged with stealing a fact, rather that a que-tion of law, and it was peculiarly
quantity of flour from the mill of his employer, Joseph the province of the Grand Jury to pmetrwe the facts.
Gillet, a miller of Abingdon. They we old also have before them some charges of
Mr. Caamootow conducted the case for the prose- horse-stealing. Now, as this crime appeared to prevail
cuticle ; Mt. JUSTICE examined the witnesses for the to an alarming extent in this and the adjoining county,
prisoner. it became absolutely necessary that the law should be
Mr. Joseph Gillet stated, that the prisoner had been allowed to take its cc urse against those whose depredso
his head miller. Having some suspicion that he was titan had set it at defiance,and he should performhis duty
is the habit of robbing him, he put some flour in a accordingly. There was likewise a case of obtaining money
sack, and in the upper part of it placed two small under false pretences, upon a charge of receiving 106.65 t.:
chips of wood : this was on the 20th inst.: he had ob- on the delivery of a pretended letter with a supposed:
salved that the prisoner had kept a small bag in the remittance. Whether the colourable prrtest could be•
crown of his hat. When the prisoner was going home clearly made out in law, from the evidence which he
in the evening, the witness, is company with a person had seen, be was not prepared to say..—perhaps not; but
named Griffith, met him, and said to him. h Race you of this the Jury would assiduoutly inquire. He was net
not got some of my property about you ?' Tile pri- aware that there were any other cases worth allusion