The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-23 00:00:00

Jefferies then left the Louse, and went again abont.six
o'clock in the evening ; the prisoner took out of her
pocket 52 counterfeit shillings, saying she had but
half a score, which she gave to him, and the witness
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ready money ; witness gage" them to Miller the same
evening.
Richard Jefferies stated, that he had known the pri-
soner since last Nov.; she lived in a cellar near the
Dry Hock; the prisoner sold Pennington 40 counter•
feit shining, in an unfinished state, and 12 finished,
for which he gave her 10-. and 3s. ; it was quite dark.
The prisoner being called on for her defence, put
in a teritten paper, which was read by the Clerk of the
Court. A considnable portion of it was occupied with
set ils respecting the wretched state of her family. It
theo prow. e !pi to state, that the witness Pennington
had once or twice re icvi d her with small sums of money,
hut she totally bitted ever having IWO concerned In
the uttering of base roin, and every thing that Pen-
nington and Jefferies bad stated on that subject
was altogether false. She called upon the Jury
nut to credit the evidence of men who were of tketimst
infamous character, oar of whom had been convicted
of ....limy, and the other was. a deserter from the artily,
and had been in earioes giols, and that his wife had
heen convicted of felony at the last Chester a• sizes.
Ills I. wtkliip ordered Pennington to Le called, :inel
lie int% crogated him at considerately length, as t•t lels
former mode of life. lie admitted tl;at be lead been
convicted of a l'elooy, for which lie ha i been itsep..i-
soneil two years in Lancaster Castie. The chariot
avtinst him was the embezzlement of the pieperiy oi
his employes.
Richard Jeff ries was then called into Court. lie
stated the he bad never been in custoth for any crime :
he was once. imprisoned for an assault ; Le wes once ,t
Private in the First Itegitsent of Guards, and never
served in any other cap.ci.ty ; was in the Guards about
five years. and thee 11l Mc re. .snout withowl
miseharTetl ; he gnitted the service in 1793, and sui-
rendered himself under his Majesty's prorlaniatieci
about thee years a2o, when he gat his diseliar:fe ;
Iwitness has he .11 at Chester several ; his wile i .
in the Castle, having been convicted of felony: nit
tress was living n ith her at the time she was appre•
!tended, but lie sail he could not speak midi an-d cor-
rectness as to the time she was taken into citsloily; it
I might be some time about last June, but he reaVy
Could not say ; witness was taken into t ustudy at Li •
veepool, about a fortnight ago, on a charge u. deser-
tion, but he was discharged by the lat4istrates ;
nest has made no bargain with the police as to :toy
remuneration proportional to the number oil' ttiViCtiOil...
bat expects to be paid fur his time and trou'ile.
.Nlr. Miller, in answer to questions from the Judge,
said he had made no bargain with the witnesses. as to
the amount of the reanune..ation they were ta receive.,
but they might reasonably expect to be rewarded in
proportion to the number of detections ; witness at the
tim • he employed them, was nut acquaihted with the
circumstances which have now come out in evidence.
His Lordship, in his charge to the Jury, said the
circumstances which have now for the first time been
disclosed relative to the former c induct of t'ae it it-
aesses. Penning-ton and Je would requite 1.
ous
the Jury very se. ions coushieration ; and in this ri spe• t
this ease differed very much from thu,i• that 11;..d preced-
ed it, for in those cases the mittiessi s ton Ii out he alluded
had stood before theist a\ persons, against %chow chara.
ter there lay no i .inrutistion, awl ncitker nor the
Jury could anti. iiirts the cireliiis'atters
which hate
since been The: e oat in this case nothing;
eoafirmato -y of tl.e evidence of Petiningttin and Jeff -
ries, and Os- Jury would coy sider a lo.••her any could
•afely rely era their uns.ipporte I te•tioomy.
Ishii, expressed ha regret, that the remuneration of per-
sons employed in this way should in any wanner de-
pend upon the number of deter lions, b:waiisr it was
impossible to calculate the etTett which such an
expectation might hare upon their minds. After
some deliberation, the Jury returned the ming
verdict :----
o We do taut think the two witnesses sufficiently ree-
d:6le to convict the prisoner upon their evidence. We
therefore find the prisoner not Not Guilty."
Mr. HAIN r said, after this opinion he could not press
the other cases in which he could offer no confirmatory
evOeni e ; he therefore consented Anat there should lie
lerdi: is of acquittal in all the casts, except that of
John lleughsti, in which lie had some confirmatory evi-
dence. The trial of this prisoner, was therefore pro-
-0...del with ; hut, when the evidence had been Roney
through, his Lordship thought it too slight, and tl
Jury agitated the prisoner. The other prisoniA.a,
chareed with the some offence, were then plaered at
tOe liar, and severally acquitted.
His Lordship said he should not pass any sTntenee
up t!ai female prisoner, Serial Henglian, who had
h.ieti convicted on the unsupported testimon
of these
vime•ses, hnt should olis,•liarge her on her, own meg,
His ince, to In of good behaviour. She was accord-
ingly placed at the liar, and having en Aered into the
.rie,itiositired prisorneecrognan
li,iezwacsem.o vantesnoirrtdierteuil tho be discharged.
.e imprisoned
months. His Lordship hoped that %be police
I
ceofLiver-
pool would, in Store, be cantions what agents they
- employed.
,ad

RIME 41)r Or lIAD,LET, Opium sumo, AND JOHNSTOS:.
---Jlllt before the condos on of the (Allier Spring
Assizes, oil Saturday, Sheol Drummond, and Joh:,.
-con, who reutlrrrel theurie Ires so conspicuons &bunt
tun year! Imo at die rrfu al meetings at' Manchester,
Stm•kport, Macclesfield, 'ie., were brought up to the
bar, to enter into personal security of Wt. each, in
adflition to sorties of IVO/. each, fir their good be.
hAviour for two years. They were respectably dress-
ed, and did not appear to have suffered, at least in
-alth, is, bowed
fully
great

Bleule,

. • •
1, by their imprisonment. They bowed respect-
to the ConA, and conducted themselves with
propriety. They weredischarged on I heyday.
ley still retains his beard, which appeiul to be
six or e;s'it inches in length.