Star.
London, England, 1810-07-20 00:00:00

6LD Limßr.

Yesterday, George Garret was capitally indicted for
stealing £34 in Bank notes, dollars, &c. in the dwel-
ling house of a publican in Kensington, the property
of Samuel Sipple. Another indictment charged him
with feloniously breaking out of said house with

intent to escape.
Ann Sipple the prosecutor's wife said, that she and
her husband were lodging at the Eight Bells Public
house, Kensingtop, on the night of the 20th of June,
she and her husband slept in one bed, the prisoner
and another man in another bed, in the same room ;

witness on going to bed placed her pockets contain-
ing the money under her bead ; on awakening in the
morning at five o'clock, she found that the pocket
containing the money had been cut away, she went
to the other bed and found the prisoner gone; the
other man was in the bed and told her he had

gone out at four that morning. She went down stairs
but the prisoner was gone. Her husband was a sai-
lor, and had received the money in question as prize
money, Knew nothing of the prisoner till three days
before the robbery. She and her husband had come
from Wales to receive his prize money, and the pri-
soner had seen her receive the money from her hus-
band at the Artichoke, at Kensington. The first time
she saw the prisoner afterwards was at a public house
in the Borough : he immediately ran into the house,
shut the door, and, climbing over the wall of the yard
into the next hoisz, concealed himself under the
stairs. The constable who accompanied witness took
him into custody ; witness said how could he have
acted so . prisoner bid her take it easy.
Samuel Sipple, the basband of the last witness, cor-
roborated her testimony. He added that it was by
the persuasion of the prisoner he had been induced to
take up his money out of the hands of the owner of
the Artichoke.

John Bass slept with prisoner on the night of the
rabbery. He awoke at four in the morning, and
found that the prisoner was gone, but that his bundle
had been left behind.

Joseph Shepherd, Clerk in Cie house of Down,
Thornton, and Free, proved the payment of the prize
money, he having paid a check drawn on said
house by Messrs. Cook and Co. to the amount of £4•i

John Goff, a constable, who apprehended the pri-
soner, and took him to Union Hall, found on his per-
son a silver watch, and afterwards at his lodgings

various articles of wearing apparel quite new ; also a
purse conta►ning a ten pound note, which prisoner
said he h.►d found on the road.

Elizabeth Coulton, daughter of the landlord, cor-
rnborated the testimony relating to the 'frisoner's
re,dging and going away from that house.
John Tennant stated, that the prisoner, on the 29th
of June, had bought of him a piece of linen attd shawls,
and gave him in payment a £lO note, which he
changed. This note being afterwards produced in
Court, by Mr. Parker, from the Bank, the witness,
Tennant recognized it, and swore positively it was
the same note paid by the prisoner.
Mr. Shepherd was again called, and produced a
book, in which was entered the numbers of the notes,
paid by him to Sipple—the three ten-pound notes
wcre, 244-5.6, and dated each 4th June, 1810. Two
of these notes were produced in Court, and the dates
and numbers corresponded.
The prisoner in his defence said, that he had found
the notes, is going from tke Artichoke public-house
to his lodgings. He had in the morning put in an
affidavit, for the purpose of postponing his trial, on ac-
count of the absence of a witness, whose name he did
not know, but in search of whom the affidavit stated
he had employed two friends, who were well ac.
quainted with the witness's person. He reiterated the
story of his want of witnesses, and threw himself on
the mercy of the Court, as a friendless stranger, who
had served in the navy for 22 years.
Mr. Justice LE BLANC summed up with great pre-1
cision. He did not think the evidence sufficient to
convict the prisoner of the burglary ; to constitute
that crime, it was necessary that the breaking should
be in the dark ; though in common parlance, the hour
at which the crime was committed was considered
might, yet in the eye of the law, it was not so con-
templated, as from the time of the year, it was, in all'
probability, broad day-light. If, however, the Jury
found him guilty of stealing in the dwelling-house to
the amount laid in the indictment, the consequences
would lac very nearly the same. 1
The Jury considere.4 for a few minutes, and then
delivered their verdict, finding the prisoner guilty of
stealing in the dwelling-house, but acquiating him of
the burglary. 1
• Jamts Manofie was indicted for a highway robbers,
committed on the person of Alfred Barter, to the ,
amount of three dollars and a shilling.
The prosecutor when on his way to town, at about ‘1
eleven o'clock on the night of the I I th of J une, from
Chalk Farm, was stopped near St. Pancras Work-
house, by the prisoner, who putting a pistol to his ear,
demanded his money, on witness hesitating, the pri-
soner cocked the pistol, and the witness immediately
gave him all his money, amounting to three dollars
and the shilling. The prisoner, after vainly endea-
vouring to get more money from him, went away
across an adjoining field. Witness then proceeded to
town, and in his way called at the Britannia public-
house, Camden Town, where he gave information of
his havinr, been robbed. On the Mondaylollowing
he saw the prisoner at Bow-street, knew him imme-
diately, andidentified the shilling of which he had been
robbed.
John Smith, one of the Bow-street patrole,said, that
as he was returning from Hampstead, together with
another officer of the name of Preston, they had ob-
served a man walking in a field, and having heat d of
the robbery, Preston went over to him, and, after some
conversation, he took the man into custody, and
brought him into Mother Red Caps, they then search-
ed his pockets and found tint* dollars and a shilling,
one farthing, and a loaded pistol.
Preston, the officer, corroborated the testimony of
the last witness.
The prisoner in his defence said, he had come from
Bath to receive some prize-money, but bad been dis-
appointed, and was golng to Hampstead to call on a
friend. In his way he found the pistol in the road.
He went into a field to sleep, and was taken into cus-
tody he knew not for \\ hat.
Sir SIMON LE IlLasc summed up the evidence with
his usual perspicuity, and the Jury returned a verdict
of Guilty—Death.