Star.
London, England, 1818-11-05 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

yesterday Aka Warner and James Warren, two
seafaring men, were put to the bar, being indicted
for having stolen eight bushels of barley.
This trial occupied more than four hours of the
time of the Court. The circumstances of the case
may, however, be stated in a very few words. The
prisoner Warner was a mariner on board the Union
sloop, and Warren was master of the sloop Prospe-
rous; both these vessels were lying close to each
ether in the river Thames, opposite St. Catherine's.
The Union was laden with barley, and the Prospe-
rous with flour.
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John Powis, an Officer, being on duty on a Sun-
day late in October, was in a boat off St. Catherine's,
and observed some sacks handing from the Union
to the Prosperous. Suspecting that something was
wrong, be went on board the -Union, and both the
wisoners disappeared from the decks. Warner was
oil board the Lnion, and Warren on the deck of the
prosperous, when the sacks were handing from one
ship to the other. He looked into the hold of the
Union, and saw it was laden with barley. He then
went to the Prosperous, and asked Warren, who at
this time came on deck, what he had done with the
sacks ? Warren said he had none, but upon lifting
up the hatchway he saw three sacks there, and upon
examining them ibund they were full Of barley. Both
the prisoners were taken into custody.
• The Jury retired for about twenty minutes; and
found John Warner Guilty ; but acquitted James
Warren. Warren was a man of very respectable
aprance.
Dpeaaniel Lorileurst was indicted for stealing, on the
night of the 10th of October, 100 pigeons, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Valentine Snow.
The prosecutrix resided at Sunbury, and had been
for many years accustomed to keep a great number
of pigeoas, somaof which were of a very rare kind.
On die night of the 10th of October, the servant who
had the care of the birds saw them all safe, and on
the morning of the 11th they were nearly all stolen.
It was discovered that a great number of the pigeons
had been killed, and the blood was traced from the
house of the prosecutrix to the river side. An in-
quiry was immediately set on foot, and it was at
length fouad out, that the prisoner had 'offered a
great number of pigeons ir. a sack for sale to a Mr.
Cattail, bird-seller in Hampstead-road, the very day
after the robbery. Mr. Cartan declined to buy any ;
arid on hearing of the robbery, endeavoured to find
the prisoner. The next day the prisoner was seen
crossing Tottenham-court-road by Mr. Cartan's son,
and the father being immediately informed of the
fact, the prisoner was pursued by Mr. Cartan; when
he came up with him, he asked the prisoner whether
he 1144 sold all the pigeons, as he had a fancy to
some of them. The prisoner said that he had sold
them all; and, upon being questioned as to where
they were sold, he hesitated. Mr. Cartan gave him
his option to tell him, or to go to Bow 'street. The
prisoner at length consented, but on the way he got
loose from the hold and made off. He was, how-
ever, pursued and overtaken.
It was ultimately discovered that the pigeons had
been sold to Mrs. Stevenson, at Battlebridge, by the
• prisoner.
The basket in the Court containing the pigeons
was now opened, and Joseph .trnold, the footman of
the Prosecutrix, and whose duty in her household
was to attend to the pigeons, was called on to exa-
mine the stock. The first he laid his hard upon was
an Opldhabaia pigeon, which was what the Fancy
would call a fine green-tailed carrier. The witness
held him up with rapture, and exclaimed he should
know him among a hundred i—the poor pigeon, not-
withstanding his diseased vision, seemed to recobanize
his old attendant, for he clapped his wings with ap-
parent joy. The next the ss itness took out was the
jilTking dove, which always bore in his broken and
bruised feathers the marks of his frolics ; but alas !
he was dead—He with concern observed, e he died
last night—the poor bird—of a broken heart!"
The. Prisoner, on being called upon for his defence,
contented himself with a denial of the charge.
The RECORDER desired some person in Court to
affix a value upon the stolen property ; but the wit-
nesses declared themselves unable to do so. One said
that a good man of the.fietcy would give any thing
for a real green-tailed carrier; and 2.5 guineas had
been given for such a bird. The value was according.
to the liking of the purchaser."—The footman of
the Prosecutrix said, that his mistress would not stop
at from two to five guineas for a bird she liked.
The Jury found the Prisoner Gaily.
Mrs.. Stevenson, at whose house the pigeons were
found, asked the Court for her expenses, as she had
been subpceued to attend, though she was not czar
mined.

Mr. ALLEY—" No, you shall not have a halfpenny.
If I had known as much as I do now, you should
haveireen indicted as a receiver of the stolen property;
for you only gate 50s. for fifty or sixty pigeons. You
very well knew they were stolen.
Mrs. Stevenson vehemently protested against this
imputation upon her character, and said that she had
not bought them. Her son had been induced to
allow the prisoner to leave them in the shop, but he
was paid nothing for the birds.
The RECORDER, however, said she certainly should
not have her expenses.
It appeared that the prisoner who had just been
convicted was an old offender, and had turned King's
evidence in two separate cases.
Michael Levy, an old man about 70 years of age,
was indicted for receiving, on the 4th of October, a
great variety of plate, knowing it to be stolen, the
property of Mr. William Clulow, of Camden-town.
'the prisoner is almost bald, and what little hair
he had on his head was gray, his face was haggard,
and his cheeks were much fallen in. He was dressed
in a gray great coat over a brown coat. He ap-
peared to be very attentive daring the whole of the
trial, and during the cross-examination of the accom-
pike, Joseph Braid, by Mr. Adolphus, he had a
continued smile on his countenance.
The witnesses examined to support this prosecution
were the same as those who had delivered their evi-
dence on Monday last, en the trial of Daniel Morris,
and the facts they related were to the same effect.—
Tbe accomplice, Braid, underwent another long era-
suinafion, and cross-examination. When the plate
was taken to Levy, Morris said that the person to
whom it belmsQ was got to Prone, Levy laving

asked whether he was dead. Levy also enjoined
Braid to say nothing about it.
The prisoner made a long and incoherent address
to the Court in his defence. He however admitted
that he had had some dealings with the convicted
Morris.

Five or six gentlemen, of the Jewish persuasion,
then came forward to give the prisoner a character.
Joseph Levy, one of tlv•se gentlemen, said that he
had kncaen the prisoner 55 years. He himself, he
said, had never had his character impeached. He
was as honest a man as ever lived. He, as, well as
the prisoner, was a dealer in old silver and gold, and
had lived in one house for 55 years.
The Jury retired for about half as hour, and re-
turned a verdict acquitting the prisoner.
An indecent expression of joy was manifested in
the galleries, as soon as the verdict was pronounced,
by clapping of hands.
The COMMON SERJZANT, in strong language, re-
probated such conduct.
Mary Brown was capitally indicted for stealing
from the person of James White, proprietor of the
Windmill public-house, in Leather-lane, his pocket-
book, containing different Hoak-notes to the amount
of £l7o.—Guilty.

At the Norwich Sessions held last week, Francis
Alntan was indicted for stealing a thread-case, con-
taining a pair of scissars, knife, &c. the property of a:
Miss Illackbunte. He was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to seven years transportation ; upon which the
culprit exclaimed, " Thank you, Gentlemen; I ani
young—the world is wide—and I can go through it !"
A man, named MO, has been committed to Dur-
ham jail, by the Magistrates of Sunderland, on sus-
picion of being concerned in murdering the servant-
maid, and setting fire to the house ot Miss Saturn,
(now Lady Pear), at Herrington, some years ago.
Tuesday sennight, fifteen of the Barnsley Linen
Weavers were committed to the House of Correction
at Wakefield; by a Bench of Magistrates. on a charge '
of leaving their work in an unfinished state. The
men urged in their own defence, that they had sent
each master a written notice of eight days previous
to quitting their work, and that three of their fellow-
, workmen, who had finished their work, had been
te-
fused payment for the same. The weavers were nut
committed till after three distinct offers had been
made by the Magistrates to liberate them if they
would return to their work; but this offer being con-
sidered by them as an abandonment of the object of
their turn-out, they decided to go to prison.
A short tinie since, the windmill, at Penenden-
heath, belonging to Mr. Buxationa, of Maidstone,
was broken into and robbed of 11 bushels of 'flour.—
It appears the thieves took a cart to the mill to con-
vey away their booty, which was traced across the
heath ; and, to avoid detection, they emptied the
flour into sacks of their own.

Tuesday night some robbers contrived to tear three
hundred weight cf lead from the house of Mr. SnAw,
landlord of the Tower of London, in Westminster-
road, and conveyed it away without detection.
The house of Mr. BRADLEY, watchmaker, in Lam-
beth-walk, was brniten open on Tuesday night. The
robbers stole a glass-case, containing gold rings,
watch keys, seals, and various articles of jtwellery of
considerable value. The case was observed, at an
early hour, yesterday morning, in a field, near tlw
premises, by a watchman, who also perceiving that
the earth near it had been recently dug up, was in-
duced to make further search, and discovered the
whole property buried' about two feet under ground.
A female, of genteel appearance, was, on Monday
evening, at six o'clock, forced by two fellows, into
one of the recesses on London Bridge, and robbed of
a considerable sum. Slie aas also treated in an ex-
tremely indecent manner by the ruffians. One of
them WAS taken into custody.
All the parcels sent by the mail coach, on the 'Nth
ult. from Liverpool,. were missing on its arrival at
York, and have not since been heard of. It has been
ascertained that all the parcels arrived safe at Man-
chester, and were regularly forwarded from that
place to York, near which place the robbery is sup-
posed to have been committed. • ,
Tuesday se'nnight, the landlord and landlady of
the King's Arms public-house, at Deal, were appre-
hended by Adkins and two other officers from Bow-
street, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder
of one of the crew of the Severn man of war, on the
24th mut. They have been conveyed to London.

In speaking of the great Irish Fair at Ballinasloe,
it was well said, that in reckoning up the heads of
cattle, they omitted the brcken heads of their owners.

MA RLBOROUGII-STREET.--•-•YeSterday Lieutenan t
Brooks was charged with disorderly condnct, at a
late hour on Tuesday night, at 97, Pall Mall, other-
wise the if atelluo Assembly Rooms, in knocking at
the door tumultuously, and ultimately squeezing
himself through the iron grating which barricades
,the doOr.—The defendant stated that he was a fre-
quent visitor to these Assembly Rooms, which he
understood were licensed, and he had been let in at
all hours in the night. A constable, as he under-
stood, with the insignia of his authority, attended at
the door, and he 'had no idea that he was acting
wrong, as he had given many half-a-crown to the
watchman to procure a coach. Matourtt.try.--,,
discharge you, Sir, and let a warrant be issued against
the keeper of this hap, which, 1 am quite sure, can-
not have been licensed."

James Can nigan was charged with disturbing the
house of —. Mackarel, under pretence of seeking
his wife —lt appeared the prisoner bad deserted a
wife and three children, who had become chargeable
to the parish ; that he had married anotlier at Saint
Ann's, in 1809, and that he married his first wife
St. Paul's, Bristol, in 1807.—1 d defence the prisoner
said, his first wife was living in adultery with Mac.
karel, and went by his name—This was not denied
by the first wife, who said she did not want the pri-
soner, and that the second wife was welcome to him,
for she had had enough of him, and did noc wish to
punish him.—Remanded on the charge of bigamN.
litmus Hair..—Yesterday 11. Austen and W. Dun-
gate were remanded, on suspicion of breaking into
the house of Mr. Hall, in Inman's-buildings. New
Kent.road, and stealing three notes for £2O each.
R. Af.bosald was also remanded, for embezzling
£2, the property or -his master, vilth which he was
entrusted to pay a baker.
R. Lowden, a baker, in Union-street, was fined five
pounds, for hariog alum in his possession, to adul-
tege bread with.,