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London, England, 1811-09-19 00:00:00

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OLD BAtilit
Sessicie! crltirneneed yesterday before tha
Lone MAYOR; Mr: Justice HE%TIf, Mf. justice BAt-
Lev, the Itsowtneit, CoMMON SKItJICANT, C.

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XL 'INC MAI PIIISON.
Apktr Aolierss,•who hat excited so much euriositY
in the public mind by the variety bf his adventures;
was put to the bar to take his trial, ifi an indictment
charging .tern with ielonionsly breaking and making
h•s escape' front and nut of the Honte of Correction
in Cold Bath-fields, he being 4 prisoner t:ietein upon
a charge rut felony. •
Mr. GURNEY Opened the tale' on the part of :he
prosecution, and stated, diet the pzerion inlittment
was preferred by Mr. Aria,-who lately held the tiot-
Ltion of hi,..td Jailor of the psis,* in question, with a
!view, by an exposure of all the facts, of proving to
:the public, that he had note hi the tlighteit ..feeree,
1 participated in the offmce with which the prisoner
, stood elarged. The Learned' dianleman th.ns pro-
ceeded to observe, that being vain apprehended, alter
't ome time, be lied made certain important discove-
ries against bther persons, in consequence of which he
had not himself been brought to trial fermalse off nee,
on account of which he was originally corrmitted,
but was admitted an evidence, and bad acually al-
ready given evidence against others, who had since
been convicted on his testimony, and had suffered.
It was a fact universally known, that, on amount of
'suspicions entertained by the Migivratcs that the
,prisoner cauld nut h we effected his escape, without
the connivance of the jailor, Mr. Aria had been re.
moved from his situation of Keeper of the Souse of
1 Correction. The Learned Counsel could not. coat-
:plain of this step, for undoubtedly a person in the
situation of keeper of a prison ought to be above sit;.
picion. The Learned Gentleman then stated the
particulars of the escape of the prisoner ; and imme-
diately proceeded to call witnesses to prove the facts
alledged. For this purpose he first called Mr. Co.
nant, the Magistrate, who depose,l, that he had issued
the three commitments produced, the two first welt
on suspicion of felonies, but the Ls:ter for a felonious
offence charged to have been actually committed.
Mr. KNAPP, counsel for the prisoner,bere objected
to the further progress of the trial, upon the ground
that nn proof had-been adduced of the guilt of the
prisoner, the two first commitments having been made
out simply on sutspicion, acid the prisoner never hav-
ing been tried for the offenca charged in the latter.
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Mr. Jastice fletrit slid, that it certainly wit& ne.
ceisary to prove the tirigin a guilt of the prisoner, be-
, fore he could be conviated of the crime with which
he toci,i ch.tr4ed.
Mr. Gt AN:la declared himself unprepared to en-
ter int.) such praots, and tl e prisoner was consequent-
I y Acquitted.

[immediately that his acquittal was known out of
C.urt, a large concourse of people assembled to gra-
tify their curiosity with the sight of a min who had
item sternuch the object of venters iticm. lie wasp
however. permitted to pass through Mr. Slleriton's
°lce, aod thus eltidesl the notice .snd attention of
the Public, for the moment ; but, being recoinized
on
_Ludgate Hill, he had some ditlieulty in getting
away from the populace. He was diessed in new
And feshioneble apparelr and tiller-being arraigned,
kept smiling and winking to a decent looking yawls
tftWnen in the gallery.]
• "'Sarah Chios, alias Green, 'aged 2s, was capitally
indicted for steeling A gold repeating watch, !slue
at2o, the property, of James Crerdleourn Strode, in
'the dwelitlighouse of William Lydiate in the month
of August last. The prisoner was a servant ip the .
house, and by that means had access to the property .
of the prosecutor, who wee a lodger therein. The
charge was fully substantiated and the prisoner was
found Guilty—Death.
Elizabeth Field, aged gt, waetried on a charge of
having privately stolen several yards of printed cot-
:on, value 20s. inalie shop of Griffith Fowkes, Linen
Draper, in Little Ratssei-street, Covent-garden. The
prisoner, it appeared, went into the shop under pre.
tence of purchasing some nifling article, and, on quit-
ting the house, rime suspicion having arisen in the
minds of the shopenen, they followed her, and on
bringing her back, the cotton in question was seen to
fall team under her cfotlies.—Guilty—Deeth.
• Wm. Bradford stood indicted for stealing one £lO
Iliatik-note, one £5, and other notes and Monies, in
the dwelling-house of Sarah Shepherd. )he prose.
eator stated that she kept wriublic-hiause in Bell-gird.
Wapping. The prisoner lodged with her, and tee
presented himself to be a lighterman. On the 19th
of July, she saw hint in the tap-room about 11 o'clock.
He shortly after went out, but returned again in the
ccurs: of ten minutes. On witness going up stairs
to her bed-foom, which was at the back of the house
on the first floor, she discovered that sonic person had
entered at the window, whichhad been left open, and
'had taken from her drawers Bank-notes to the amount
of £JO. On the ensuing day, having some suspicion
that the prisoner had committed the theft, she had
him apprenended, and on being searched, the m Or
part ef the property was found in his possession On
A subsequent day be confessed he had taken the/no-
r nay from Mrs. Shepherd's house. Guilty—Death.
Thaasett Bart:ham stool indicted for assaulting Daniel
Green on the King's highway, and taking from his
won .a silver watch, value torty shibings, his pro-
MO. 'rhe prosecutor stated, that in, the night of
elsj gd of September, he was returning from a public-
ixiyie, near Itatcliffe-highway, to his lodgings, trot
,os' passing through a court leading into Weliclose-
square. he was stepped by the prisoner an.L another
man, who pushed aim against the wall wilt coati-
! deriible violence, and took from his fob I:is watch,
the outside case of which flew off ut the moment, and
fell on the ground. The prosecutor pick:el is up.
and pursued his ass:miters, who ran awse, lie crying •
Stop thiel I He kept the pris“ner in s,,ew until he
saw him go- into an unfieislied Iniiiding, where he swap
found Secreted in eel minutes aftereearifs by a watch-
man nam-fd Martin, who condue• ed him to the watch-
hnthe, and was there searched, but nothin,' of a MlS-
pici us n suite was found on his person. The same
night liquid woman; named Lane, produced the winks
of * watch whirl, she t mnd in the street tier •te,h
which the prisoner and his compani in ran. and these
his. ........ —y-i-
-9A orkethe prose cows. ideittitied as a ii Math.
Samuel Fraser tsai convicted ~t sieming a tone-
piece in the daelling house of Stafford tiortheote. in
st. James's, etelltenwell, on the Slit of August list.
It eppeatest OW the savant accidentally left the co r
open, and obirprisoars was seen to go into the house,

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