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London, England, 1827-09-17 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY

lONS, Sarr. 15.

&foie )Jr. Sergeant Aiming.
John Powell,.and g+ years, was capitally indicted
for robbing his masters, Messrs. Sewell and Cross, dra-
pers and haberdashers, in Compton-street, Soho, of
cloth, crape, aad other property, value 1561. Mr.
Sewell, in consequence of suspicion, employed an officer
to watch the prisoner, and he discovered that be had a
lodging in Carnaby market. The prixtner at first de-
tried he had such lodgiag, but afterwards admitted it.
The lodging was searched by Clements, an officer, in
the-pfesence of witness, and the prisoner admitted that
the goods found there belonged to his empioyers, but
refused to say at what times he had removed them, or
for what purpose. Clements, the officer, searched the
apartment in Carnaby market, and found two boxes,
containing property belonging to the prosecutors. On
the_ prisoner he found a paper containing a description
of ;he goods, which he produced, and the prosecutor
identified it. The prisoner made no defence. His
employer gave him a good character. Verdict, Gailty.
-Death.
Before Mr. Justice GAsztaz. •
Sophia Canyon was capitally indicted for stealing
Bank notes of the value of 1001. the property of Marian
Mason ; and James Charles Gunyon was indicted for
recriving the said property, knowing it to have been
n.
Miss Mason, the prcsecutris, lodges at No. 2, George-
street, Hanover-square, in the house of Mr. Crossby.—
Oa the 2d of August last she went oot, leaving in a
drawer in her bed-room, which she had locked, bank
notes to the amount ofsool. in a pocket-book (witness
described the notes); she gave her servant leave to go
04 that day; on returning home in the evening her
servant was there ; about one o'clock in the night she
heard an alarm, and the street bell was rung; she got
out of bed, and went to the top of the stairs, and asked
who was there? the female prisoner, who wasemployed
as a charwoman by Mr. Crossby, replied, "that it was
her husband, who had called for the key of his house;'
she missed her property *on the Saturday following.
The drawer was still locked, but, on opening the pocket
book, she discovered that notes of the value of 100/.
had been abstracted from it. She did not know either
the dates or numbers of the notes she had lost. Thet

'notes were packed up in parcels of 1001. each, and she
was about to remove the money to Drummond's bank,
when she went to the drawer, and found one of the
parcels had been stolen. •
Emma M. Peel, the servant of last witness, corrobo-
rated her evidence, and added, that when she left the
house on the 12th of August, the female prisoner was
alone therein. On her return home in the evening the
female prisoner was there. The bed room door of the
frosecotrix was left open when witness went out. Be-
t;re.she went to bed, the female prisoner told her that
h.sr hushand was returned from Batteuea, and on the
following morning he breakfasted their
at eight o'clock. The male prisoner
away, gave his wife a shilling, and
he had."
Mary Sibelle stated that she is a .
at Hampstead. e had known the prisoners _
years; the female prisoner is a native of St. Alban's.
On the 14th of August they called upon her, and the
male prisoner asked her if she had been in the country.
She replied she had not, but she was going to St. Al-
ban's on the Saturday following, and they said they
should like to go with her. She a ked them if they had
some relative dead, knowing th t as they were very
poor people they could not pay the expense of travel.
ling. On the following day they called again upon
her, and the male prisoner said that he had received
money from a friend in the country, and he put a parse
Cootaining 40 sovereigns into her hands, and requested
her to take care of them for him. The female prisoner
put a ten pound notesint•o the purse, making altogether
501. On the following. Saturday the prisoners called
OR her again, and the female took five sovereigns net
of the purse, and witness and the prisoners went that
day to St. Alban's, and remained there till the Tuesday
ibllowing; she promised to meet the prisoners at
house inTottenham-court-road on the Wednesday; but,
oh her arrival there she could learn nothing of them ;
on going to their lodgings in. Monmouth-street, she dis-
covered that they had been taken into custody. • ,
Goddard, a constable, said that he apprehended the
prisoners, and afterwards received information that they
bad deposited money with Mrs. Sibelle, of Hampstead.
Mrs. Sibelle produced 35 sovereigns and a ten pound
. note. Witness told the mate prisoner that he had dis-
covered this property. He replied that he received the
notes from his wife, and thit he sold the fifty-pound
note in Wellclose-square, for forty sovereigns. He said
he did not know whele the other notes were changed;
the female prisoner, after being cautioned that she had.
no occasion to say anything if she did think proper,
said that she had taken the money ; that she changed a
101. note in Monmouth-street, another note at Waterloo'
House, a third note in Oxford-street; and that she
thought the 101. note was a 51. note.
Mr. Justice GAsnLaE summed up the evidence, and
the Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
Was. Goodrich, aged 46 years, the butler of Stephen
Price, Esq. the lessee of Drury-lane Theatree, was in-
dicted for stealing a silver salver, value 201. the pro-
perty of his master.
The prosecutor had a dinner party, and missed the
plate in question, and on the prisoner being searched by
an offitter, several pawnbrokers' duplicates were found
upon him, and it turned out that he had pawned the
salver in St. Martin's-lane. He had a wife and several
children, and was in great distress at the time. His
defence was, that he had intended, when the prosecutor
paid him his quartet's wages, to have redeemed tlia
property and restored it. Verdict—Gni/Iy, and strongly
recommended to mercy.
, Eliaabet4 Jonet,lB, Maria Palmer,l6, and John Mks.
19 years of age, were capitally indicted for assaulting
Timothy Wright, on the 21st of July lait, M St. Cle.
meat Danes, putting him in fear, and stealing from his
•, person eight sovereigns.
The prosecutor said that he lived at Rotbethithe, and
• was a carman and green-grocer.. Between four and
five o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of July, he met
the female prisoners in the Strand. They asked him
• for some beer. He went with them to a public-house,
called the York Arms, and he believed it was in Little
Shire-lane, near Temple Bar. After he had been there
about ten minutes, and they had drank ginger beer and
. 'saner, a woman, not in custody, crossed the room and
seized him by the throat. The prisoner Jones assisted
• the woman with one band, and with the other she took
• 'eight sovereigns out of his pocket. The strange female
.and the prisoner Jones threw him down and ran away.
.-..He followed them to the door, and was met by the pri-
sone' Riley, and be informed Riley that he had been

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!robbed. Riley refused to let him go, and demanded
the amount of the charge Tor ginger beer and porter
;Which bad.been drank. before he quitted the 14ace.--
Riley was not in the room at the time he was robbed,
nor did he believe be was in the house.
The wisoners respectively protested that they were

Mr. Justice GASELEI summed up the evidence, and
the Jury found them all Not Guilty. •
(Before the fbreciaoss.)
Thomas Sackett, aged 28, butcher, was capitally in-
dicted for feloniously assaulting James Slurp, Esq. the
elder, near the Royal Exchange, and stealing from his
person bills of exchange, and securities for money, of
the value of upwards of 1,0001. his property.
Mr. Snarp. a very elderly deaf Gentleman, was sworn.
He resides at No. 6, City-terrace, City-road, and has
been in the elm of
.Hankey and Co. for upwards of 50
years. On the Vid of August, hi left Messrs. Hankey's
house, in Feuchurch-street, at four o'clock, and about
a quarter of an hour afrerwards, he was near Copthall-
buildings, near the Royal Exchange.; at that time he
had a pocket book in a pocket inside of the breast of
his coat, containing bills, notes, and securities ; amongst
them were bills of exchange toe very large amount
(Witness described the value of the bills, notes,
Ike.) ; when he arrived near Copthall-buildings,
he saw five or six men in conference near the posts,
corner of the passage leading to Bell-a:ley. As he was
attemptilig to go between the posts he was hustled by
the men, and they stopped hith; he was surrounded by
them, and he could not go forward nor recede; he did
not know any of the men ; he was hustled for some
time, and became alarmed at their violence; in an in-
staot they all ran away. He immediately found his
coat had been opened and the pocket-book and its con-
tents gone ; he had not seen any of the property since ;
he gave an immediate alarm on discovering the rob-
bery, and said that he had been robbed of his pocket-
book. . In ten minutes after wards he saw a man in the
custody of Brady, a constable.
• Mr.Tlaornas Edwards—ls a member of the Stock
Exchange; was passing from Copthall-court to Bell-
alley, at a quarter past four, on the day inquestion, and
saw the transaction. He observed fire or six men,
amongst them was the prisoner, who surrounded Mr.
Sharp, and created an unnecessary confusion ; some
one said," Their corikluct is more like pickpockets than
that of persons going about their business: the mess
separated in haste, and Mr. Sharp was very mach agi-
tated; he was positive the prisoner was one of the men
who surroupded Mr. Sharp. He asked Mr. sharp if
be had lost any thing ? Mr. Sharp felt his pocket, and
said he has-been robbed of bis pocketbook, containing
bills. He pursued the prisoner and secured him, and
told him tl.at as he was -one of the men who ap-
peared to have aided in the robbery, he must go
along with him, and give some account of himself;
the prisoner at first objected, but witness being re-
- was willing to go with
came up and said,
of the men ; the pri-
or a constable named
the inisoner said he

one of the party bad

dropped some shillings.
The prisoner in his defence said, that he was acciden-
tally passing through the court, and saw an obstruction
caused by some men; he mutually got by. and had
walked for about fifty yards. when a Gentleman over-
took him, and told him oat a Gentleman had been
robbed. He said th tt he knew nothing of the rtibberz.
and was willing to be searched, or to go any where*,
thought proper.
The Jury, after two hours consultation, returned a
verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was imrne.liately ordered up for jadk
merit, and sentence of Death, pass:d upon him by the
RECORDIR ; who, in the most • feeling manner,' ad
vised him to prepare for the awful change, whit!) in all
'human probability awaited him in a very short time.
The prisoner, who appeared quite unmoved while the
awful sentence of the law was passing, was then taken
from the bar.

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he'e. and went away solute, the prisoner said be was
ner, before he went him. A person named Clarke c
said ci that Ras all on seeing the prisoner, that is one c
loner' was given into the cutady o
,
Brady, and was taken into a shop;
laundress, and lives
e prisoners for some had stooped down. because he or o
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