Star.
London, England, 1821-09-22 00:00:00

• --OLD BAILEY SESSIO VS.

Yesterday, William Dalton was indicted for bur-
glarionsly breaking and entering the house of Mr.
Turton, of Chester-street, in the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square, on the 4th inst.
Susan Salmon deposed, that she was cook to Mr.
-Turton. On the night of the day mentioned in the
indictment she went to bed, after having previously
fastened the area and kitchen doors. When she rose
the next morning, between five and six o'clock, she
found the kitchen door open, and there was a hole in
the door large enough to allow a person's arm to be
passed through. The area door was unbolted, but
not open. It was bolted on the previous night when
she retired to bed. The pantry door was a-jar. She
did not know whether it had been left in that position
on the night before. Two iron candlesticks belong-
ing so the house were usually kept on the mantle-
shelf of the kitchen. There was only one of these
candlesticks in the kitchen when she went to bed.
Thomas Edward Mitchell Turton deposed, that
the prisoner was hii servant, and was to have left
him on the day the robbery was discovered. The
witness had directed the prisoner to call him at a
quarter before six, on the morning of the sth of Sep-
tember. The prisoner did not awaken witness, who
rose at a quarter past six ; shortly after which, he was
informed by Mary Clinch, his house-maid, that the
house was 'robbed. Witness went down stairs, and
found the prisoner, and Susan Salmon the cook, in
the kitchen. The prisoner pointed to the hole in the
kitchen door, and said, " There's the way they broke
in; they have taken all the plate, and my silver
watch, which I left in the pantry last night." The pri-
soner had the care of the plate. The prisoner pointed
to a cellar, where an iron candlestick was found on a
barrel, which had the appearance of a candle having
been burnt out upon it. The prisoner said that it
must have been there, where the thieves must have
hidden themselves. (The door was here produced).
The hole was certainly made on the outside. It was
enough to admit a man's arm to remove a
str..ng bar and draw two bolts. On asking the pri-
sor.Cr when he went to bed? he said at two o'clock,'
a-Id that he and Mary Clinch were the last up in the
house. In the course of the morning, witness, having
ro ,:tispicion at that time of the prisoner, told him,
that as he bad no place, lie might sleep in the house,
and earn a few s!lillings if hecOuld. The officers then
came, and the pieces wood were compared with
the hole in the door. The servants weie searched by
the officers. Witness had no suspicion that anything
but the plate was stolen; but he had occasion to go
to a drawer in his dressing-room, in which some
money was kept, and he found that two bags were
gone, one containing about 4.48, in notes and so-
vereigns, and the other about £lO. Witness had left
the keys in the drawer by mistake. Some sovereigns
were found with a bag in the prisoner's box, and being
asked by Gilmore where he got them? he answered,
41 Worked for them, to be surer and being farther
questioned, said be got them forwages of Captain
Lausanne, and a Mr. Howell. From the Captain he
received 1.7, and Mr. Howell paid him in sovereigns.
A box of phosphorus and some matches were found
in the piisoner's drawer, and a hrass candlea iek.—
Witness had a chest of tools, in which was a gimlet
and a chisel These had been taken out, and were
found to correspond exactly with the holes an: marks
in the door. The box in which the toais were
contained was not locked. The tools had not, to the
knowledge of the witness, been used for nine mouths
before; but on looking at them, lie blond some saw-
dust attached to the gimlet, which appeared to be
fresh. The holes in the kitchen door precisely corre•
sponded with the gimlet. When the prisoner was'
asked whether he had locked the pantry door on the
night of the robbery? he replied, that he had locked
huh the drawer in the pant' y, and the door itself, and
had taken the keys up to bed with him. The wit-
smss examined the pantry door, and saw a small
mark about two inches above the lock, but not large
enough to cause it to be supposed that force had been
used to break the door open. The bolt too had made
no mark upon the catch, as he thought it woidslha've
done, had the door been forced.
Crms.e.raminal by Mr. linonearox.—The witness
had a good character with the prisoner when he took
him from Captain Lausanne. He came from the
country to the service of the witness. The witness
believed that all the marks on the kitchen door were
made from the outside of the door. There is a mark
on the lower part of the door which appeared to
have been made by a poker, or some such instru-
ment, from without. The prisoner could get into
the kitchen from the place where he slept, without
passing through the area. The witness had a ser-
vant in his house named Griffiths, who assisted in
cleaning the plate on the day before the robbery was
discovered. Griffiths knew where the plate was kept.
Ile thought it was not likely that Mrs. Turton would
take money from the drawer in his dressing-room.
The witness never possessed a phosphorus box.
Mary Clinch, a servant to the last witness, de-
posed that Salmon, the cook, went to be about half-
past eleven on the night of the 4th of September.
The witness, the prisoner, and Griffiths, remained up
in the kitchen. Griffiths went to bed about a quar-
ter past one ; about half-past one the witness heaial a
noise at the kitchen door. The prisoner was with her
at the time in the kitchen. The noise appeared to
proceed from something boring into the door. The
witness told the prisoner she heard a noise. lie re-
plied that it was only her fancy. Just after the wit-
ness heard the noise she went to the housekeeper's
room to fold up some liner. Whilst she was there,
the prisoner came to her. This was about a quarter
to two o'clock. The prisoner asked her whether she
was not going to bed ? She replied, " Yes, when she
had folded up the things." The witness went to bed
just alter the clock struck two, leaving the prisoner
up in the kitchen. The prisoner had a lamp and an
iron candlestick with him in the kitchen. Her master
bad two iron candlesticks. The witness heard the
prisoner go into the scullery, and put the candle-
stick down. There is a door at the top of the kitchen
stairs, which witness shut when she went up to bed.
The prisoner was then standing near the pantry door,
which was open. The witness got up at a quarter
before six o'clock, and went down to the kitchen,
which was in confusion. After she had looked at the
place, she went to call the prisoner. She called him
three times at the bottom.of the stairs. He did not
answer, and she went up stairs and knocked at the