Star.
London, England, 1828-12-09 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Dic. 8.

OLD COURT.
Jirhn Ponsonby, alias Greenwood, stood charged with
uttering a counterfeit shilling to Ellen Berry, well
knowing the same to be a counterfeit.
Mr. HOLLAND stated the case for the prosecution.—
The Learned Counsel told the Jury, that as the pri
soner bad before been convicted as a common utterer,
the present was a capital offence.
The following evidence was then adduced :
Ellen Berry proved that she kept an oyster shop, and.
that on the 20th of October the prisoner tendered a '
shilling in payment for two-pennyworth of oysters,
which afterwards proved to be a bad one.
Ann Glover deposed that the prisoner came to her
mother's shop on the day hid in the indictment, and
paid her a shilling. which she found to be a bad one.
Several pieces of bad coin were found upon the prisoner.
John Field, an Inspector of the Mint, proved that the
money was covaterfeit—they were made of Britannia
metal.
Ttie prisoner said he was guilty, but was driven to the
ct ime by distress.—The Jury found the prisoner
James Cofernan, and Rhoda Cokman, his wife, stood
indicted furs having in their possession, op the 14th of
November, without lawful authority, two moulds for
the parpose of making counierfeit shillings. An Act
passed in the reign of King William punishes this of-
fence with death.
The prisoners resided in Jubilee-court, Bethnal•green.
and an officer proved that when he went to their house
he found various utensils used for the purpose of coin•
lug. and some bad shillings. The prisoners were not at
work at the time.
On his cross-examination, the officer said that there
sere no tlols found like those used by a worker in metal.
Did not know whether the Male prisoner. was a metal
workei. Found nothing upon him.
Mr. Field, the Mint Inspector, deposed that the im-
pression on the mould was the best he ever saw,
Verdict—James Coleman,. Guilty—RbodeSoleman
Not Guilty.
Joh% Denis. James Wheeler, George Dui, Daniel
Quay, and Thomas Groves-, *nit indicted for having
assaulted ThOmas BrookeiVind stolen from his person
a gold watch and five sovereigns. From the evidence
it app. awed. as the prosecutor was walking near the
Rosemary Branch public house, Huston, on the sth of
Novrmber, in the morning, he obseived a mob ap..
proachinghim, in the midst of s hich was a man riding
an ass, and disguised as a Guy Paul. While the mob
was passing, one if them seized the prosecutor's watch
ribandl the robber was assisted by the rest of the mobs
and the prosecutor ma: finally knocked down and se-
verely beaten about the head and face. His watch was
cars led off by the man whir first attacked him; his
purse,-cOntainipg five soyereigns, was also taken. The
prosecutor' tumble to identify any of the prisoners;
but a hey', named John Johnson, saw the prisoner Quay
strike.the prns:cutor with a stick.
Selieral other witnesses proved that Wheeler was in
the mob at the time of the outrage. •
The Let RN= JUDGE*charged the Jury, who acquit-
ted all tt,e prisoners, save Quay and Wheeler, against
whom they 'ruined a verdict of Guilty, %kb a swim-.
snendation on behalf of (Islay.
%hoatas Brooks, aged 22. was indicted for stealing a
pony. value 101. the propeity of William Rodwell. The
pony was stolen from Hampstead Heath. and subse-
quently discovered drawing a hired chaise at the door
of the Swan, Kennington, in' the possession of the
prisoner, who offered Gibbs, the Bow-street petiole,
who apprehended him, twenty sovereigns to let him go.
The isrisoner said he pm chased the animal of a per-
son iban.ed Wt.od, in Smithlied Market. The Jury,
however, found him Guilty.

THE WARWICK BANK NOTES.

W. Vyhe, who was convicted at the beptember &P.
slots. for having had in his possession certain noes of
the Bunk of Whitbiead and Co. b4nters of Chipping
Norton and other pl., es, but in whose case judgment
was tespited for the put vie of having certain points.
reset wed by the Le: reed Judge who toted the case, ar-
gued, was now ',laird at the bar.
Mr. Baron H ULLOCIC proceeded to deliver the opinion
of the Judges onthe points ieferied to them. The pji-
boner had•bien found guilty of receiving notes cOntai-
tuting part of the parcel stolen, one of which he had
uttered; and the remaining thirty were found in his
possession. His Counsel had argued that his conviction
was invalid, inasmuch as the numbers.of the notes found
in hii possession bad not been mentioned in the adver•
tisements giving notice of the robbery, and that the
not stolen' were not valuable securities, nor goods and
chattels, as set forth in the indictment, having been paid,
and consequently rio longer of any value. The Judges,
however, unanimously agree that the conviction was
good ; the notes had been sufficiently described, and
although they had been paid, yet they considered that
they were goods and chr ties, as they had stamps on
them, and might have been re-issued. Under these cir-
cumstances the law must take its course. The prisoner
then reiieed ruff the bar.
Wary Ann.fratiets, aged 19, was indicted for steal-
ins a silk uhibrella, value 10h. the property ti Thomas'
Mmfor d.
A: the last September Sessions a poor Irish girl,
name) Ann Crawley, was convicted almost entirely op
the evidence of the prisoner, of stealing a gold ring,
the propertyof her mistress; and sundry articles of wear-
ing apparel, alleged to be'the property of the prisoner.
They were hi,th. at the time 9-1 the alieged robbery. in
the service of Itlrs.Baton,who keepstbe Elephant public
house is Fenchurch street; rations articles were missed
at different times, and suspicion fell on tne gis IC' au le).
Her bird twas searched by an officer, in the presence of
Walters, but nothing suspicious was.eiuod.4stheoicer

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was leaving the morn Walters again opened the box, and
said, di Oh here is a ring belonging to my mitre at*
some things that belong to am" From citcumrantes
that subsequently transpired. the innocence of the girl
Crawley was completely established, and there remained
no doubt that the prisoner was thetbief. . A petition on
behalf of Crawley (who had been sentenced to seven,
years' transportation, and which punishment was alter
wards commuted to five -years imPti.onment •in the
Penitentiary), was forwarded to the secretary of Sate,
and the result was that she obtained a bee pardon
Several benevolent Gentlemen in the city, who com•
miserated her unfortunate situation, raised a soluctirtion
tor her, and she was sent back to her friends in Ireland.
The above circumstances gave a peculiar ii tete,' to
the trial. sq

Mr. CHARMS ?HILLIPS, in stating the case for the
prosecution, requested the Jury would dismiss from
their minds any statements they had seen in the public
prints relative to the prisoner, and confine their atten-
tion solelyto the evidence. He then called
Mrs. Sarah Eaton, who stated' that she kept the
Elephant public house in F.enchurch-street The plumes'
was in her service. A Gentleman named Bamford fre-
quented her house. On the 19th of October he called
and left a silk umbrella in her care, and which he
placed in the bar. On the Soth he called for it again
--it was searched for all over the house, but could
not be found. The prisoner was gone out at the time.
When she returned witness questioned her respecting
the umbrella, but she denied ever having seen it.
Miss Jane Eaton, a daughter of the last witness, stated
that by the direction of her muther she went to sevesal'
pawnbrokers shops in the neighbourhood to make in-
quiry respecting the umbrella in question, and at length
ascertained that it had been pledged at Mr. Barker's, a
pawnbroker, in Whitechapel. When she returned home
she told prisoner the result of her inquiry, upon• which
she at once admitted that she had pledged it, and said
that she lost the duplicate on her way home.
Ebeneter Hodges, shopman to Mr. Barker, stated
that the prisoner pledged the unshrellailith him for 7s.
in the evening of the 30th of October. She pledged it
in the name of Ann Roach. There was another young
woman with her at the time. Witness produced the
umbrella.
Maria Bolton stated that she knew the prisoner. She
accompanied her to the pawnbroker's when she pledged
the umbrella.

Mrs. Eaton recalled—Stated that a girl named Roach
was formerly in her service, but left it two months be-
fore the month of October.
Thomas Bamford stated that he left the umbrella
produced in the care of the first witness.
B•idget Roach stated. that she was formerly in ,the
service of Mrs. Eaton; she octet pledged au umbrella
in her life.

This closed the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, in defence, said, she threw herself on,
the mercy of the Judge and the Uentl,smen of the Jury.
She did not call any witnesses.
Mr. Serge Ant A RABIN summed up the evidence, and
the Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict Guilty.
There was another indictment against the prisoner,
for stealing certain articles of jewellery, value Si. the
property of Mrs. Eaton, upon which ,Counsel clocliaed
calling any witnesses. • • •

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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BIANSION.HOUSIL.
Quests Divr.— A meat-salesman was iiitititioned before the.
LOUD Maros by the Ward Inquest of Partstiken fur having ex-
posed to sale two deceased sheep of a very quesilottabk descrlp-
. tiun.—lt was stated, that one of the sheep was, of a greenish bite,
and very offensive to the nose • and that the other appeared to be
a casualty "(a sheep that died by -strangulation or drowning, or
in any way without the spilling of blood). Both were exceed-
ingly unlit to be used by human beings, and the Ward Inquest
very properly complained for the sake pf the Public, the poorer
portiiin of which were temptetito purchase at a low rate.
The defendant said, 'that the sheep had belts sent up to him
dead, with orders to dispose of the carcassdits soon is possible.
He was under obligations to sell, whatever might be the state of
the health of the animal, or his business would fall to the ground.
As for the sheep that was considered a !4.l:oMaity,"- be did not
think it was; fora sheep, if knocked about in a cart, would have
the damp and meagre appearance of a casualty. 111 hid not sold
either sheep for human food, but for cats'-nurat. •
Two carcass-butchers deposed, that the sheep were moat objec-
tionable.
The Lotus Mayo& said, that the defendant was not warranted,
by any circumstances, in selling unwholesome meat.
One of the butchers declared that a great deal of bad meat. both
anialties and unsound, was to be bad in Whitechapel. Casualties,
which had departed life without losing a drop of blood in the course
of their days, were frequently to be seen hanging up. It would he
moat desirable to appoint a Superinteudent over each of the meat
markets. In Billingsgate Market, the frequent seizures of stinking
fish abated that horrible nuisance; and it a Superintendent was at
other markets, he would have enough to do to seize the stinking
sheep, and unwholesome casualties, which weto to be seen.
The defendant here retaliated upon the butchers, and said. that
some Gentlemen of ibit trade ought to look to their rotten old
cows and their mangy ozen—(Laughter). In his opinion, a cow
that died of a bowel complaint, or a typhus fever, was every bit
as bad food ask casualty, or a green sheep—(Laughter).
The Loss Maros said, he should certainly, in future, punish
every person guilty of such an offence. As It appeared, however,
that in this ease the meat was not sold for human comunrption, he
should remit the penalty. His Lordship commended. the Inquest
fgr the very proper discharge of their duty.
A broom girl, named Nisnity Zidgig, was brought before the
Loan Mayo,., charged with having entered chambers in Throg-
reionon-atrett, fur illegal and improper purposes.
The defendant, it was said, carried about some small brooms, as
a cloak for disposing of her charms to yoting men. This was a
practice with some of the Dutch broom gills, who went in couples
about amongst the clerks in counting-►a uses. and sometimes con-
trived to lay their hand+ upon moveables. Miss Zidgig went alone.
trusting to her solitary charins, and was in one of the chambers
halt an hoer.

-Thebroont girl said, that she lived by selling brooms, and that
the clerk had purchased one from her. and could nut be prevailed
upon to pay tor.it. She denied that alte over allowed any body to
take liberties with her.
The LesILD MAYOR said, that there was noeharge against the girl.
It was certainly wrong to give encouragement to such broom girls;
but the defendant had nut been guilty of any cdifance against the
laws of common decency.
QUEEN—SQUA RR.
Yesterday a coal.clealer, at Palmer's Village. Westminster, and
who likewise carries on business at Walsworth, appeared to an in-
formation laid against him for having its his possession a peck mea-
sure with a false bottom, with which he served his customers. .
The defendant was last week fined in tkepeitalty of £lO for
having ti half-bushermeasure with a false bottom.
'lke defendant pleaded not guilty. and the case was proved by
Wm. Geary, an inspector, who opened the false bottom in the
measure, and showed it to the Magistrates.
Gszetsets said, that for the last live years he did not know
a Case, Morally speaking, of greater turpitude than the defendant's
—be was nut content with the profit which be obtained from his
poor neighbours, but he must endeavotir to cheat them likewise—
there could be no excuse for such conduct, it was altogether scan.
dairies, and by should line him in the full penalty of At* sad eons,
or els months' imprisonment.—The fine was instantly paid.
WORSH
Riniontos Lout—A middle-aged man of grave deportment, and
a homely-looking woman some years younger, were charged by
Wm watchmen with being found in a very indecent 'situation. its
a street leading front the Kingsland.rosil. The male defendant,
who has a wife and dues children living, is a tent-preacher, and
upon all occasions, most zealous in preaching against fornicatioL and
Molter,. He said in bib definite. that his wile being a woman oat
religiously Inclined, he and his fensaluteighbroir tomethnes went
to meeting together. They had done on Sunday evening, and
were returning home afterwards, when they unluckily fell into the
snare that Satan bad prepared ter them. The woman was db.
charged; but the other prisoner was fined 13s. and in defaidt of
payment he Was lucked up.
WATERMIINIS HALL.
On' Thnrsday forty five watemeo were Aped for waking eatsa

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charges. kat refusing to take their proper turn, and for other of-
fences against the new Act.
Mr. DILINILALD presided, and stated that be was happy to observe
that the batches of violators of the Act were becoming path his
numerous. They appeared, when first t►e Act Was pirt Into era.
Lion, in numbers from ISU to 160, and the conduct of several was
mar►ed with the most inexcusable violence. Those whose duty it
was to put the law into execution were, however. determined to
carry it into effect most sigotously. The public bad upon many
occasions borne testimony to the improved conduct of the water-
nun ; and he trusted that very shortly be should sit in that Court
without hearing a single complaint.
F.ach of the defendants was fined from it. to Si. and some warrants
were procured from the Mansion House to distrain foe the amount
of penalties which were adjudged nit a former day.
Mr. Driukald pve notice that be should. upon every occasion
where the penalty was withheld after an appointed day. issue the
necessary order to distrain. He regretted to be obliged to resort to
such an expedient. but the public could not be protected against
extortion and insolence except by severe measure..
The defendants begged to be excused, and promised most so-
lemnly not to repeat their offences; but Mr. Drinkald was vett
properly. inflexible.

UNION HALL.
A lad named Ce/lisu, having the distinguishing marks' et lip
° Forty" on his arms, was committed for stealing a number al
err spoons from the Aouse of a Mr. Willis. The young thief. It
appeared, had jumped over the railings of the house, and having
got into the area threw up the kitchen window, and reaching over
to a table on which the spoons were lying, e‘ grabbed" the lot. He
would have escaped with the prize bad not the servant returned
into the kitchen just at the moment the trick was done, who, per.
ceiving him on the retreat, caught him by the skirts of the mars
and held him uotll assistance arrived. when the spoons were issmil
in his possession.