Star.
London, England, 1817-05-27 00:00:00

OLD rifILPIA

Yesterday lama Su' mars and Jan Berretves wore
indicted for steslintf a ham, the pro?erty God-
dard; an officer watched the poisoners an I
till he saw Burrowes lift the hani trout j 110'ik at
'ito. Goddard's door and ron away with tt ; they
were pursued and taken. —Guilty.
Having both received eccello.nt characters, the
Cworolos SrttresNT, in comoider.oiA of the:r youth,
ti .tot them Is. and discharged them.
Jones Johnsen was ind:c.ed for stealing two loaves
tf )read, the property of J. Sweetland. The prosecn
:or pot down his basket and went down a door or
;moo farther to serve a cosvmer, in which time the
;orisoner carried off the loaves. - Guilty.
JJ'ntt St...verson was indicted for sieallog a tea-
ecany, value Ss. the property of Th: is Fleetwood.
ib:th lt.ch saw the prisoner take tile caddy
front the sl:np of the prosecutor, alio is a broke: -,
;orosecntor's wile pursued the prisoner and took the
caddy from him.—Gt iffy.
Pasne,agLd 16, Edward Morri:, aged 12.
Rewri Barba., aged 8, anti James J7a:on, aged 10,
were indicted for having stolen a quai:tity ut cotton
bed furniture of T!‘t•rras Hall. The profit coror is
porter ; Vie fathi:r amid mother of the prisoner Bar-
ber lodge in his house ; on the .`i3l of Aptil, a ft ic4.:
tf !he prosecutor's tumid his dour °poll and appizA
his wile of the circumstance, who went to the town
and found that she had b..en robbed at tlt furniture
belonging to a tent bed. The bop when accused of
the rubbery fell a crying, and Barino_r the !toast accu-
sed Ins eldo-r brother, who is ttot yet taken, of the of-
fetice. Several pawnbrokets ptoved the l:dying of
dillereht putt, or the property by Palle, who was
found Goitty , the others tver.• Acquitted.
'rue toilowing were zoolvicied of telony, v:z.
J. Alarou, f.,r suoaling two handkere:ietr.

Sarah Prory, for stealing a pair ..z btkit..
1.47.11 Us, for stealaiz
J. Perkins, for steal:l;4 visin hi u.l c. and a counterpane.

I. !Irani-00, ioe stcaLug tour curl and wur .aucerb:
J. Fretitholui stealing ..Vrl.ll 13.4.te1l pewter.
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Mary Cane, tor stealing twelve i.cruads ut livef.
Mary gassy, fur staling a pillow and a brooch.

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1. Sterne, our eteal.tsz a toter ut Leon.
W. Meyers, roe wale. g a great coat.
W. keret, for stealing two au a 1,.

J Notcott, for iteating a slnrt.
11 Bricks:ten and 1 Datton, fur stealing a violin.
I'. 1141 and 1 Pearson, tut stealang a watt.l. and three Euineas.

Mary Flaherty was indicted tor sulaling ten sheets
and a bier of leather shoes, the property ter the Glar-
di .ns of the Poor of the parish ot St. Luke. The
prisoner was a pauper in the parish workhouse, tints
upon suspicion twin!: excited against her, she was ex-
arninear, and found to have one pair of sheets closely
wrapped round her person. Duplicates were found
in her pocket, which led to the discovery ot the otlttr
property ; but it appearing that the articles had Leen
)aid in the indictment as the property ot the Gllin.
dians of the Parish, and that the Special l'at:aclaial
Act, vested the parish property in the Overseers and
Guardians for the time being, the ItEcotiroat told the
Jury, that on account ot this variation the prisoner
must be acquitted. They returned a verdict of ac-
quittal accordingly.
Jame: Dempsey, at soldier, who appeared at the bar
with a Waterloo medal, was charged with atei:iing
18s. 101. the change out of a pound note, seat Dy the
prosecutor to be changed by the hands of the priso-
ner, and tcvpay for some ale which tirey had been
drinking together in good fellowship, hec..use they
had both 13:en at Waterloo. The prosecutor descri-
bed himself as an atto:ney's clerk at present, but f e
had been in the Commissariat at Wateil,o. The
note was no: now produced, the person who changed
it having paid it away. He had some suspicion that
it was not a good one. The prisoner did not bring
the changs .back, and now declared is his defence
that it was his own note. The Jury returned a ver-
dict of Acquittal.