The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-11 00:00:00

OLD DAILY' SESSIONS.

Htenwav Ronnear.--Joeeph Woollen and Milian.
Bullock were capitally indicted, as stated yesterday,
f-r taking from the person of John Hale, Esq. on
the lOth of November last, a watch, chain, and seals,
his property.
The prosecutor is the Hanoverian Consul General,
and resides in Russell-square. He stated, that on the
day in question, he was walking up Drury-lane, about
five o'clock in the evening, when a man came up and
pnshed hint into Charles-street. Ile supposed at first
that somebody wanted to pass, and therefore went out
of the way ; but when be got the push, he received
, a violent blow from behind, which stunned him. The
:idtow cut his hat, and marks of blood were yet to be
seen upon it. (The hat was here produced in proof
of the fact.) At the time he received the blow, a
man cried out " hollo, where are you pushing to ;"
hind he then fou id that be lost his chain, to which was
appended a horizontal gold watch, with his name
in Roman letters, "John Hale, 1t.405," engraved upon
I it. Ile made a plunge at the man who bad the
watch, but he was so overpowered by the effects of
the blow on his head, that he fell. Ile thought
that the man who cried out " was the
person who had the watch, but from the state
he was in he could not he certain. The per-
son ran up Charles-street, and the prosecutor jump-
ed up and pursued him, when a second blow
was aimed at him, which he parried off. Finding
himself now in dangerous a situation, he returned into
Drury-lane bleeding profusely. Ile then went into a
couk-sh..p, and got a surgeon, who dressed the wound
en hi. head. When he recovered him-;elf, in a few
days after, he went in search of a buy who hail wit-
seised the attack upon him, and had riven informa-
tion at the cook-shop respecting it. Ile succeeded in
finding him, and weet with him to a public.house,
the sip of the " Coach and Houses, in (treat Belton-
street, St. Hiles," where the prisoners were. The
; prosecutor did not go himself into the public-Louse,
but sent in the officers, who brought out the prisoners,
land they were identified b:, the boy who was in the
coaA with him. To he still more certain of their
I identity, be had the pris.nters taken to another public-
; !sense, and sent in the boy, who immediately recoz-
i
. nisei! them as the persons who lead committed the ride-
; berg. This occurred on the 2tl of December. The
prosecutor here detailed varints particulars, to show
that a %latch found on the prisoner, was the
i same he n-as robbed of.

('ruts-exaolined b% 31r. snnrws---It was a foggy
night, the gas was lighted, and there were several
persons about the street. The boy came imme,nately to
the cook's shop, anti st ►ted the facts of the robbery,
and that the prisoners were the persons who had com-
mitted it. The prosecutor was confined about a fort-
night, in consequeoce of the injury he hail received.
At his examination at how-street, Bullock said nothing,
hut he afterwards stated that he had bought the watch
in question.
°eo', Margate, the boy alluded to, was next ex-
amined. lie works with his father, who Is a wheel-

Wright, in Chairs-street, Drury-lant•. Hr knew the
prisoners for neatly ryear ; he saw them often its coy)- ,
pany together: he has no &MIA whatever ps to their
persona : lie n'tnembers haying seen Mr. Hale knocked
down. On the evening in question he saw them come
out tog-ether from the Coach and horses ; there Ira! a
third person who stood in Drury-lane, and the witness
heard hint whistling, Ile saw Mr flak come across
Drury-lane, and pushed into Charles-street. Mr.
Hale was struck with a little ash-stick, which Bullock
generally carried; w•itneas often saw the stick be-
fore. The prisoner went away immediately after the
robbery.
Cross-examined.—lle was going for a candle to a
chandler's shop in Holborn, when he witnessed the
transaction: he was not tour:• than three or four yards
distant when Bullock struck Mr. Hale; he remem-
bered that Bullock wore a black rout and top hoots;
Wooten was close by. Wootten w,•re a black ur blue
coat—he believes it was IlLtrk ; he had on brown paa-
talnons, shoes, and white stoekings • he to ik par-
ticular notice of them, fearing that he might he asked
some questions; but lie knew them very weH, inde-
pen•lently of their dress: be forgot, if lie spoke to Mr.
Hale in the cook-shop: be believes he did not ; he
spoke to a waiter there, but did not think he hearth
him: he mentioned the robbery to his father, and
other persons he never said the prisoners were not
the persons who committed it; he knows the faces of
the prisoners perfectly well; he was found by Mr.
Hale a fortnight after the robbery : he did not go to
give information at Bow-street bcfore the prisoners
were taken into custody, being afraid of their doing
him some injury. Neither his father or mother told
hint to give information ; he saw the prisoners drinking
at the Coach end Horses, where his father used also to
resort, he was brought up in Clerkeuwell l harity
School, and goes to St. Diles's Church. When taken
into the other public-house, he knew the prisoners at
once. After Mr. Hale had made him out, he lived in
the Commercial-road to be out ,f the way of the 1,14-
soners, till they were taken.
Jeremiah A:ailment, an officer, deposed to having
apprehended the prisoners on the information he bad
received from the boy. Ile found upon Bulhs:k the
watch, which Mr. Hale identified.
The witnesses proved that the watch was isii:teo
altered since Mr. bale was robbed of it, bat
there were sufficient marks by which it could be ;hu-
t:Red

The .prisoners in their defence attempted to prove
Lan dibi and called two nitnesses for that purpose,
otse IA whom, a person named Farthing, bad been for.
wadj sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for
refelviag stolen goods, and the other, whose name
imasll49lsers, indicted for burglary, but escaped.
I . •Verslict—Geilty—Dcath.—Aged 19 ad 2.:1.

•
• Sluing, appointed in Middlesex and Loudon, before
the 44341 Chief Justice of the Court of King's• Bench.
ba Jail after Hilary Term, 1831 :
sitinmesax. IN TERM. LoNoos.
. Saturday, January. 27. Tuesday, January 31).
• Sit at 12 o'clock.
"Friday. February S. I Monday. February S.
•Tbariday. —S. Sat relay,
'1 • AFTER TERM.
-ITuesday, February 13. I Wadaeaday, Fab. 14.
Sit at ball past 9 o'clock.

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