Star.
London, England, 1827-04-19 00:00:00

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ice." The *Bort might hairy mien the pocket-bool.
twice. Them were men and women walking about Stokes
Croft when I got near the Black Horse. I went about
twenty yards up the lane; is was between clerk and
light. I took the•man so quick, that I believe he had
not time to pot the notes in his pocket. The prisoner
did Pot knock at Wagg'e doOr • I pushed him :rams,
it. I had wen Morgan several times in Bristol. Wage
has kept that house many years; I had frequented
it two or three years. I had refused to discount a bill
for him.

Mr. Hunt proved that he had bought the oxen of
the prosecutor, and had paid him the 541.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. I,tms.ow submitted !hit: eves allowing all the
facts to be true, they did not constitute highway rob-
bery, but
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN directed the case to go on.
Mr. Lornow called Joseph Chappell, landlord of the
Blatkhall Tavern. Webb and Smith left us at five
minutes before 10 o'clock. Smith was intoxicated
about three parts drunk.
William Luce, a sail maker.—l was with Hu:table,
and saw farmer Smith at a quarter past ten. He was
very drank, and was talking to a female. He offered.wW
light me. I said I had rather take a glass of grog. Wes
fuur went to the gin.shop, and had a glass a-piece."
polled out his pocket book, but did not pay the reckne-
log, and I said he was a shabby fellow, on which be
pulled it out again, and put it back. My cold.'
pinion .Hustable said, "If you d. sit take care. yo•
will be eased of that to-night: Hatuable is ts. t here.
Mrs. Southgate keeps the liquor-shop. Smith told
them to call for what they liked. I mide three glasses,
but objected to make one for Smith, becaqse he was in
liquor; he, however, insisted, and had a glass. The'
sailors pressed Smith to pay the reckoning, and he
twice pulled out his pocket-book and put it back. The
tall one called him a shabby fellow. I said—" Never
mind, I know him; be will pay me another day."—
Smith fell asleep in the chair. The girl shook and
woke him; be was more stupid by his nap.
Michael Wagg—l am forty. I have kept the Black
Horse for fifteen years. Smith has frequented my house
four or five years. His horse was at my stables on the
Thursday. I heard a noise first, and then a rush, and
so I opened the door. Smith seemed mad, and charged
Morgan with robbing him of SOL.' I sent immediately
for a watchman, who came. Morgan wished to be
searched, and said so many times, and pulled all his
pockets inside out. Met edith, the constable, tame in
about an hour and three quarters after they first came
in. The watchman tame within ten minutes. I went
out to look for the hats. Smith said if Morgan would
give him the money, as be was a respectable man, he
might go, and he, Smith, would say nothing about it.
I said, after such a charge he should not go. Two hats
were fOund, three parts up the lane. Smith was very
violent, pilled off his coat, and wanted to fight Morgan.
I did not watch Morgan ; he pulled out -his pockets,
eaten, pocket I thought he did not pull entirely out,
and I made hiat do so, but there was nothing in it. 1
have known him for many years as a respectable silver-
smith in Bristol.
George Thorne, the watchman-s-I was in my box
when Wagg sent for me. I went into the parlour.
Smith was very much intoxicated. Wagg and I went
with a lantern to search the lane, but we did not find
the notes. I went for Meredith.

Meredith, night constable—l watched Morgan tho-
roughly, but found nothing of the prosecutor's on him.
I asked Smith *viersl questions; he would not snsw•er
me, but said he should say nothing until became before
a county magistrate. He refused to give a charge, and
I did not take Morgan into custody. He was much is
fluor. I Ind two persons in custody when I was first
rent for, and could not come for b4lf an hour after.

Jane Guest—l met the prisoner in Stoke's Croft on
4se Thursday night. We went up the lane together.—
The lane leads to Mother Pugley's fields. Whilst we
there there a man ran. very quickly by us towards the
kid. Morgan's dog barked at him. Shortly after-
'girds a man sensed Morgan by the coat. I thought it
leas one of the constables, and walked slowly up the
lane into Stoke's Croft, and up the Croft. lam quit(
Certain I saw a man running tower& the field while
was with Morgan.
Cross-et ansined—l was close to Morgan when a man
collared him. 'l'he man who ran to the fields, Morgan,
and the man who collared him, were the only men
saw in the lane. I saw no more of the matter.

Five very respectabletradesmen of Bristol gave Mor.
gan an exceeding good character for integrity.
Mr. Baron Vituesux was proceeding to sum up, and
was observing upon the very respectable witnesses who
had given the prisoner so good a character, and had
said, H There is no evidence that will justify you, when
Mr. Twigs said, the prosecutor now felt he must
have been mistaken in the man, and relinquished the
prosecution.
Mr. Baron F./mon/tit—That is the handsomest thing
he can do. Many people have been acquitted upon
ilban
very
di oubtful evidence. That is not the case here; and
for the prisoner's sake I am glad the proceedings were
sot stopped earlier. The prosecutor has, I dare say,
with an honest belief that the prisoner was the
who robbed him, but be was not is a fit date to
perceive, and beyond all question he'll mistaken.
The prisoner was immediately need and dis-
charged, and went to his friends. The trial excited
great interest, fror the
if the party.
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