The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-12 00:00:00

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THE STATa;;MA N.

Mr. Sherif hick*. -bniiegingliall, walked up io
the Lord Mayor, and aside-" Did you wWrM speak to
me, my Lord ?"
heLoaD MAcoe.—Nl, Sir
The ititCORDIIII.-1t Is the MON fileriipTres your
atteadaisce here, Sir. .
Mr. Sheriff PABKIIII.-1 wish ..14•••
The RECORDIK.-1 shall maw altercation hertt
the business of the Court must p
Alderman Sir C. the order of the
Court that you attend here.
Sheriff Psuaties.—Then I am hem
Alderman Sir C. Hntcraa..—Tbes sit down, Sir.
The Sheriff then sat down.
The RiCORDEN, in charging the %aid Jury, said he
bad looked carefully into the Calmat. for the City of
London, but did not perceive any Wog of peculiar
atrocity. The crimes were, in feet, sub as were every
day committed in great and populous Om It seemed
to him, therefore, that no question of Law or di/Scatty
was likely to arise.
DIRPRIt ATE assauvr.
Meow Chard and no/ow Jews tlUp indicted for
watch o
having f
assaulted Thoma Cripples Craideid.
und hie WI the nightlylgragate. lyilar -
rated circumstances, on the 4th of No ry. . 'awe
were two others included in the indictments E. Kay and
H. Thatcher. The latter had bees. Are the assault,
transported, and. the former had not siterendseed.
The COMMON SINJOANT and Mr. Maoist conducted
the prosecution on the part of the city.
Craidield said he was a watchman of tispliffasti of Crip-
plegate. On the 4th of November be NM ilk duty ail
usual • about one o'clock in the words% be saw Kay
sad Thatcher coming towards Londoe-wall. Kay asked
him if one Brows lived there? He replied in the nega-
tive. The two then went over to Three Nuns-court,
immediately after which the prisoner, Chard, passed
him. Witness followed him, and saw in thetwort Joao%
has', and Thatcher, a hose Chard joined ; they all al-
feried drunkenness. Ile asked them what they were
skulking about, and told them that if they did not leave
the place he should have them brought to the watch-
house. They made a great noise, and followed the wit-
ness in a menacing manner; he observed that Chard had
a stick, and be sprung his rattle, upon which Jones
struck hint with Isis fist in the face, and Thatdser strut':
him across the forehead with a stick. White* knocked
down Jones, and wrested the stick from Thatcher's
hand. It fell upon the ground, and Chard took it up
and beat him desperately with it. The four fellows then
fell upon hilt., and knocked him down several times.
After a desperate struggle, he succeeded in dragging
Jones to the watch-house. The alarm obliged the rest
to run. Soon afterwards, the other three wen were
taken by other watchmen. IVitness suffered greatly front
the assault. and was black and blue on the sides from
the beating.
Another watchman confirmed the same important par-
ticulars.

Jones and Chard said they were so mock intoxicated
at the time as not to know any thing of the eireum-
stance.—They were found Guilty, and sentenced to im-
prisonment for five months.
The Foreman of the Jury expressed a wish that the
watchman should be recompensed.
The Racoavaa said the recommendation should be
attended to.
The Common SIIRJIANT said the Ward of Cripple,
gate would, no doubt, aaply reward the prosocuisef
his spirit and attention.

MIDDLESEX SESSIOSS, JAN. IL
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Man darke, senior, and J. Clerks, Junior, father and
son, were indicted for assaulting Ann Clarke; thupro-
secutrix was wife of Richard Clarke, the sun, and bro-
ther to the defendants ; in consequence of some disagree-
ment he abandoned her, and she kept possession of the
lodgings they had before occupied. On her return
home one day to these apartments, she found her bro-
ther-in-law making some arrangements of her furniture;
and, upon her asking him to account why be had so in-
truded upon her property, he desired her to be gone,
threatening to murder her if she did not obey and at
last struck her violently with his hand. The allowing
morning the other defendant, the father, also assaulted
her, and from the violence of the two she was very much
injured.
Upon the cross-examination of the prosecntrix. it ap-
peared that she got admittance into the room by means
of a trap-door.
The Jury having found the defendants Guilty, the fa.
ther was sentenced to pay a tine of 10/., and the son a
fine of 151., each to be boned to keep the pease to the
prosecutrix, on their own recognisance..
J. Bareley nes indicted fur forcibly entering upon
and keeping forcible possession of two rooms in a house
in Pore's Head-yard, Westminster. The prosecutor, J.
Kempster, was agent to certain executors, in whom
the title to the premises WAS vested. The title was
fully proved, the power of attursey was exhibited, and
the right of the prosecutor allowed. Theruoin in ques-
tion had been surrendered by the former tenant in lbl6,
since when they remained unoccupied, until the de-
fendant, Hastily, was found in possession very recently,
although the key had been in the hands of the prose-
eutor all the time.
There being no evidence to prove that Baselsy used
force in entering upon; or detaining the premises, the
Court held that the inuictment mustlie quashed. :
The Jury accordingly acquitted the defeedant,, t
Thomas Kiag and Thomas Lomb were indicted for
assaulting W. Adams and E. Harrison, two of the ale-
conners of the Court Lett of the manor of Chelisa, in
the month of October.
The prosecutors, in discharge of their dude; went
to the house of King, a grocer, in Chelsea, for the
purpose of examining if his weights were correet. Upon
entering the shop with the Jury. the officeiNgitml
their scales, ind, as they stated, -gust Or
blew into the shop. depressing one side of the scale,
they at the instance of Mr. King, put into the ',Make
scale a bit of walnut-shell, in order to bgliog it lea ba-
lance. Upon the examination of the witights„ji ap
peared that in a four pound weight, &two. fit.
and three one pound weights, there was s of
p
about half an ounce altogether. King, cip or . re-
cess,paif
became irritated; and some words basing
between bim and the prosecutors, he pulled one beau
by the nose, and afterwards committed the assault in
conjunction with Lumb, who encoeraged him. by re-
peated cheers, of " Oo to it, my lad. I'll slae*by you."
The assault was sworn to by several witIIONNO.
It was attempted, on the part of the defeeditials(whime
ease was supported by Messrs. ALLBT, Allealarloaad
ADOLPRUII), to show that the prosecutors had
a previous assault, or at least had given to the
a very great degree of provois,ion. .
The Jury, after a sensible charge from the Cum=
found King guilty, and acquitted Lan& The
was sentenced to pay a fine of 13/.
After sentence was passed, he represented that he bad
a' very large family, and very limited means to support
them, and begged the Court would be lenient towards
him.
The CIAJRMAN said, that the offence was a very ho-
nking nee inijied, and demanded a large measure of pu-
nish**. nom aid not alter the sentence.
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The thls day before
441*.annIZ=Se •
Haulers. Pei. Chairs" asssi a. full Beach of -
Irate.. .
71.4 ashbrodgallbs Jury.
*at the amp* trEprlscusen was eery largo, tonsideeit
.Ika shod dose which hipl_elapeed since the last %%elm.
'it *ere apathrds *niftylit aaniber, but the calendar
stedcd oepw•eatir case of atrocity.
The Mart wens occupied a eoweiderairle part
day in the election of a Sarreyor to the Comity. No
case of public interest occurred.