Star.
London, England, 1811-01-15 00:00:00

OLD BAH.Er.

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Saturday T. Moore, Sarah Bailey, and Hannah Green
were charged with robing David Roberts, of one £2O
Romford bank-note, three £5 Bank of England notes,
and some other notes and silver; in all upwards of
440. The prosecutor, a Welch drover, had been to
• Romford market, and sold some cattle, from whence
1 he returned on the 7th instant, and was in Smithfield
1 market, where having drank too freely he sallied forth
to -Field-lane, and was from that spot conducted to
Saffron-hill, and found his way into the " Earl of
Moira public-house, formerly " The Castle," there;
when he was surrounded by the prisoners, who disco-
vering that he had a considerable sum of money about
him, they sat down with him, and helped him to
drink his porter; but observing that a poor Irishman,
who attended in the house, was speaking to the land-
; lord, as if suspicious of them, they suddenly decamped,
'and the unfortunate Welchnian discovered that they
' tbad emptied his pocket-book, leaving k on the table.
' %Moore endeavoured to pass the Romford £2O note to
'-34r . Chapman. a publican, in Long-lane, Smithfield ;
but he stopped it, knowing Moore, and hearing of
the robbery, whereby the prisoners were apprehended.
The capital part was dont away ; Moore and Bailey
were found guilty of grand larceny, which subjects
the'm to transportation for seven years, and Green
not guilty.
The following were convicted of fklony. viz. E.
Saunders and C. Knapp, for stealing a quantity of
printed books, the property of W. Fox ; G. Carring-
ton, for stealing 18 yards of ribbon. the property of
-Eliz. Whiffin ; Marg. Molloy, for stealing 22 yards of
cotton, the property of B. Webh; Mary Casey, for
stealing several articles of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of F. Buzzio.—And J. Maxwell was acquitted.
Yesterday, Jane Anderson was indicted for stealing
privately in the shop of Richard Robson, No. 72, Ox-
. ford-street, a piece of printed calico, value 10s.
It appeared, that, on the 17th of December last,
the prisoner came into the shop, enveloped in a large
_shawl,. with a child in her arms: she asked to look at
some printed calico, and purchased a yard. She was
on the point of leaving the shop, when Thomas Jen-
kins, the shopman, missed a piece of cotton ; he im-
, Ancdiately communicated his suspicions to Mr. Rob-
non, who directed him to stop the prisoner, by whose
side he found the stolen goods.
The prisoner, who is not yet 15 years of age,
stated, in her defence, that the goods had not been
taken from the counter by her—the child which she
had in her arms might have removed the property
without her knowledge.
. , The Jury found her Guilty of Stealing—but not
gqlB.ll!ately—thus doing away the capital part of the
1 Indictment.
The COMMON SERJEANT respited the judgment of
- - the Court until next Sessions, that inquiry should be
made as to the relatives of the girl; and, if possible,
' she might be provided for, without sending her out
of the country.
/Miry Gcucher was indicted for stealing a horse, a
saddle, bridle, and chaise harness, from the stable of
Richard Baxter, on the 17th of December, the pro-
• "perty of the said R. Baxter and others.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been employed by
Messrs. Baxter' and Godsal, coachmakers, in Novem-
ber last, and was consequently well acquainted with
the place where Mr. Baxter kept his horse. Mr. sax-
. ter's groom, on the evening of the 17th December,
Bauble-lucked the stable in which the gelding was
kept : on the following morning he found the stable
door had 'been broken open, and the gelding, saddle,
&c. stolen thereout. On the 20th he discovered the
horse in a stable belonging to Mr. Hornby, in Bed-
ferdbery, which the prisoner had some time before
hired, as servant. to Captain Smith. The prisoner
was clearly identified as the person who had brought
'the horse to Mr. Elornby's premises, and he was
taken going up the yard towards the stable. On ex-
amining the stable, the stolen saddle and harness were
found: and on searching the prisoner's lodgings, in a
- pail under the bed, a alter was discovered, with the
a
i• 1 tials K. B. marked on it, which was dire identical
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