Star.
London, England, 1821-06-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Yesterday Richard Luck and John Quittenden were+
capitally indicted for stealing a gelding and a mare,
the property of James Taylor, a farmer, at High-
tham, in Kent.

On the evening of the 18th ult. Thomas Croucher,
servant of Mr. Taylor, turned four horses into a field.
That same afternoon Croucher had seen two strangers
loitering near the field. The following morning two
of the four horses were missed, and a part of the
fence destroyed. About four o'clock the prisoners
were seen in Norton Falgate, with the animals, by a
man who suspected that they had stolen them, and
gave information to the Worship-street Officers. The
latter traced them to the Basing-house, in Kingsland-
road, where they met Quittenden coming out of the
parlour, and one of them said to him "you brought
two horses to town this morning." He replied, " No;
it was the man in the parlour who brought them."
They wept in and saw Luck, whom they taxed with
stealing the horses, and he did not deay it. One of
the Officers then ran out after Quittenden, who was
running off; and a cry of " Stop thief !" being raised,
several persons attempted to stop him, but he knocked
two or three of them down with a stick before he
was secured. They were committed to Clerkenwell
Prison, where Croucher, the next day, identified them
as the men he had seen near his master's house in the
afternoon of the 18th May. The horses were found
in the stables of the Basing-house.
They made no defence ; and the Jury found them.
Guilty—Death. Aged 32 and 21.
Isabella lVylie was indicted for stealing a quantity
• of silk, value about £5, in the dwelling-house of
James Barton ; and Samuel IVheatly, alias Keatl.;,
was charged with receiving the property, knowing at
to have been stolen.

The prosecutor, it appeared, is a silk-manufacturer,
residing at Bethnal-green, and previous to the 18th
of April last the female prisoner was employed in his
warehouse. In consequence of having missed a quan-
tity of silk, he suspected the female prisoner, and she
was taken into custody. She then confessed the rob-
bery, and said that she had taken it to the male pri-
soner, in Spicer-street, Bishepsgate street. A search-
warrant was obtained, the prisoner's lodgings were
searched, and the prosecutor's silk was found. While
the Officers were there the prisoner came home; but
learning that a search was going on in his lodgings,
he ran off as fast as he could. The prisoner was'
afterwards taken at Nuneaton, in Warwickshire; and'
when he saw the Officer, he said—" Oh, I suppose
you are come about the girl and the silk?" The Officer
knew the prisoner well before this time. Having told
him that he was come to apprehend him for that
purpose, the prisoner added—" Well, if you'll behave'
like a man, I'll go along with you like a man." On
the road to town the prisoner said—" I suppose I
shall have a twelvemonth for this."

Neither of the prisoners said anything in their
defence ; but a great number of witnesses were called
to the character of the male prisoner, some of whom
had known him upwards of twenty years.
The COMMON SERJEANT, in summing up to the
Jury, observeJ, that although this was a capital charge
against the female prisoner for stealing in a dwelling-
house above 40s. yet, inasmuch as there was no dis-
tinct evidence that the silk was all taken at one and
the, same time, the capital charge was not made out.
—As to the male prisoner, the evidence, he thought,
was clear and decisive; and, as he was the receiver,
he deserved, perhaps, the larger punishment.
• The Jury returned a vei diet, after a short consider-
ation, against the female prisoner, Guilty of s:ealing
to the value of 395. only ; and against the male pri-
soner, Guilty generally.
The COMMON SERJEA NT then passed sentence upon.
Samuel Wheatly, of transportation for 14 years. •
John Morgan was convicted of stealing a quantity
of linen and wearing apparel, the property of a poor
woman named Smith, into whose apartment he got.
admission by means of a false key.
When asked if he had anything to say in his defence,
he said he had not, and that he would be very much
obliged to the Court to send him out of the country,
for he could get 'no honest employment here.
Mr. ARABIN—The Court will not accommodate
you by a sentence of transportation. Some ether
mode of punishment will be found for you.
John Ryan, for breaking and entering the dwelling
house of William Morris, and stealing a gown, and
various other articles, value 30s. and Sarah Gillian,
for stealing in the dwelling-house of Thomas Reeve
and John Bonnell, two silk shawls, their property,
' were also capitally convicteki.
The Sessions at the Old Bailey were adjourned for
want of the attendance of an Alderinan. Mr. Alder-
man ANSLEY left the Court about two o'clock, and
another Alderman promised to sit an hour for him ;
he, however, did not return, and after waiting a con-
siderable time, and sending in all directions in order
to obtain the attendance of an Alderman, about half.
past five o'clock the COMMON SERJEANT was obliged
to adjourn the Court.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterday James Robinson was found Guilty of
snatching and funning away with a lady's ridicule,
in the street.
The CHAIRMAN said the offence was a highway
robbery, for which the prisoner might have been in-
dicted capitally, and probably hanged. He was sen-
tenced to be transported for seven years.
Timothy Driscoll was found Guilty of picking a
gentleman's pocket of a silk handkerchief. Thepri-

soner was a very young man ; but, as appeared by
the account g►ven by the Officers, an old offender.
The CHAIRMAN said, the most effectual means or
saving him from the gallows, was to transport him
for lice, which sentence was accordingly passed.
Edward Hammond was found Guilty of an attempt
to rob a lady of her shawl, by pulling it off her per-
son in the street. He was sentenced to three months
imps isonment.

Charles Allen, a sturdy beggar, was found Guilty
of beating two Officers of the Mendicity Society, who
attempted to apprehend him, and was sentenced to
three months imprisonment.

Qtrems-sonazz.—Yesterday, Trimble, the pugilist, and ano-
ther man, wore fully committed fur snatching a bundle, contain-
ing a suit of clothes, from the wife of a tradesman, whilst passing
through Struttoo-gronnd, Westminster, ost Saturday evening.

SURRENDER OP MR. DISNEY.