The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-04 00:00:00

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PRWE SEVEN PIDICE.

HERTFORD LRNT ASSIZES.
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Hereunto, Masco I.—The Haste Lireait essonseneed
here te-dav, bdore the Loao Coin Name oo the Ctrii
site, and idr. Baron °ARROW oa the Crown side.

can** at Dn.
MURDIR AT Bell, who stands
charged in Middlesex with being an accomplice with
Richard ord, in the wantl warder of a gentleman.
named Johnirhomas Taylor, at Hornig,' shoat a ye.tr
since (the mysterious circnnist &vices of which are fresh i
the recollection of the public), was tried here on ta..
indictments, the one charging him with steeling a lamb,
and the other with stealing 60 pigeons. The evidenr..
not being sufficient to support either indictment, be u •
acquitted on both.
Mr. Baron °ARROW then ordered hi. to be remit,.
to the county of Middlesex, to tabs his trial for the al-
leged murder above mentioned,

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THCRHHAT. MARCH 2.
)More the Lend Chief Boren and 4 *Petal Jury.
caoasam AGAINST HIATHCOTR, LPQ.
This was an action brought to matter d -II for
tr..spass committed by the defendant, as SiihNe7ii of Ow
roouty, in entering upon the premises of the plaintiff,
brewer, at King's Langley, and taking and selling has
effects under an execution against his father, soh
formerly carried on the business, but two years ago re-
liniptieltell it in favour of the plaintiff, at which time tha
stock was valued to him, hut no regular assignment
Liereof us•de until October last.
On the part of the plaintiff, the Excise officers, and a
great mother of other witnesses were called, to pit..
that he hail been in possession of the effects, and carried
on the business, from the moment of the valuation takin4
place, which was in May, ISIS ; and also to peeve th .t
the plaintiff is possessed of considerable leaded ptoperty,
and fully able to have paid the amottat of the valuation.
The plaintiff's father proved that the whole of the pur-
chase money was paid to Mal previous to the execalio
of the assignment, and that lee had thereon' fully pa. 1
all the debts whieli he owed at the time, including Iffis..
to Mr. Troths.) (the plaintiff in the execution which gas •
rise to this action), and which was at that time all ill,
money be supposed he owed him, being the amount of a
bowl he bad given as security fur one Johnson, wit s
had married his dan.gister ; but that sithseqsently M.%
'tritium made a chum spou him of 2110 f. snort, lulu„
a hook-414n Aso from Johnson, which the witness h
no idea of being liable to pay, and for which the est-ca-
tnip was ultimately issued. The Sheriff's offirer
auctioneer proved that property in the whole hall her
sold to the amount of 34101. and witnesses were th,
called, who clearly proved that a quantity of hops au
malt, en-I a mare, whirls, altogether, sold fur upwards
2110/, hail never been the father's property, but Lad Iseen
bonglit by the plaintiff himself since the father had left
off business.
31r. Serjrant Ts DDT, on the Fart of the defendant, eon
tended that the assignment wasfranarne•-4:.T.'•"""'" '
haying been exelosively in the plaintiff, his father nes -
ing always after the assignment emathinted 'reside oil
thr, reuthses with him; -Mee ioseppert -14,4 W sdrn •
mem he cited a case wherein it had been decided by Loci
Ells-thorough, that wherever an assignment or 'bill of
sale of goals take• place, and the assigner does not iin-
me liately quit possession, and have them wholly to the
a-slmer, the assignment shall he construed to be alto-
gether vai I and fraudulent. The L greed Mespions the,
urged, that although it had been proved that the i 5.,,„,
malt, and mare, were the plaintiff property, still ths.
no distinction ought to be made between them and the
rest of the effects, hut that all ought to stand or fall wi: is
the assignment, because he should prove that the Shen,'
had been entrapped by the plaintiff's attorney Into tii
wiling piths:robe particular lots. Ile then produced a let.
ter addressed to the Under-sheriff, signed " Henry tt
ii-
li:tms:' and dated " Blackittan-street, Jan. 3, 1820,
wherein the plaintiff's attorney states that lee will attend
the sale, astir point out two or three lots which will
raise the amount of the execution without any trouble.
3lr. Creed, the auctioneer, was then called, wins
stated, that after he had sold furniture to the amount of
7sat., Mr. Wiliianit, of Itrrkhampstead, came to him, and
NMI him that he was the plaintiff's attorney, and that
hr would sell two or three of the larger lots the whole
na aney would lw immediately raised ; mud that, in enog...
q amity, hr sold the hops, malt, and mare, which Mr.
Williams pointed out to him as the must valuable
tides, and that, all the property was bought fur the
plaintiff' by persons employed by him.
Mr. Serjeant Isme,, in reply, first insisted upon the
validity of the assig 1111 l ent ; and then, that if the Jure
thought it invalid, still that they were bound to gi‘e
the plaintiff a verdict fur the value of the hops, malt,
and mare. .

The .lorc, aft,T a few minntes' consnitation, return,' I
a %mild for the plaintiff—Damages, beiul the fml
v lbw of all the effect% w!4l.

Plis moll following' range (recopied the Conn from
intim in trawling till four in the afternoon.

ruin v. NI t; t, 3.—The business in the Nisi Pr; •s
Court f1.1‘11191 119lav afternoon. In the Crow.l
Court Mr. Baron finished his jnilicial duties
this morning. The only eases of peenliar interest tried
hefore bis lAwaship were the following:—

1-1111161 C OF lIANSLAUGOTIR.
nOitfai P,,•,/g and George Hurler had been indi -te I
for the wilful nt er Ire itt Hart, who was thrwt .1
o f the 114.11-head mail, of which Peady was the ilr4e:,
and which had hen, upset by the Chester mail, of which
Witter w.o. the driver, in consequence of the misconduct
of both prisoners, who hail been racing their coaches
near S. .‘lbsta's, in the month of August last; bnt the
thand ittry having thrown out the bill for the capital
offence, they were now tried on a charge of manslan:Thter.
Mr. liaoostot stated the ease for the prosecution.—
The first witness called was

Mr. Archer. a respectable bootmaker, of 91. Cheap-
side, who presented a mutilated and hroken-down ap-
pearance. having been one of the unhappy sufferers from
the misconduct which uecasioned the death of the de-
erased. Ile stated, that he was an outside passenger by
the Holyhead mail on the evening of the 10th of An-
t tist last. intending to go to Coventry on business. He
sat On Ow box with the prisoner Pertly. 11-hen Cie
coach arrived at that part of the road beyond Highga.e.
where a jimetion is formed between the Archway-i•
..n I the old H'ghgate-road. the Chester mail are nit.
'loth coachusin le. an to whip their horses, and pet
.hem int e a for
op, and drove abreast of each oiler at a
fitr.o is rate for a considerable distance, when the driver
of the Chester mail slackened the pace of his horses,
and see tied coml. a of the impropriety of his comlart
hue, however, when tie easels« approached towards tat.
Alban's. and had arrived a the till about a mile.tvom
that town, the prisoner, P r 'y, pot his horses into a tor-

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