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want, but your mistress." The other had something
like a pistol in his hand, and held it over her in, hod,

while the first tried the drawers etthe foot of the I
bed ; the drawers being locked, they went out of
she room. Two more then came in. they were die.
Eeriest from the first two. One of them had a plaid
dress; the other, something black on his-chits and
forehead. They enquired where their mistress was.
Hannah Copley, pointing with her . finger, said,
Si There." They then left the room, and she and
Hannah Copley, made a noise to alarm the
man servant. The man who first came in came now
agaiu, and said, " Lie still, or I'll blow your brains
out ;" he then went out. She got up and went down
stairs ; as she was going down abe beard her mistress.
crying out, " Lord help us, what is the matter:"
ileoush Copley screamed at the game time. She
found the front door locked. When she was return.
ing up stairs fur the keys she met Hannah Copley, I
and then eaw three men. one of whom had a dark
taistern. She sew in her mistress's room the men
with the plaid dress,bird beard him put something in
his pocket which rattled like a watch chain : he
asked, 6! What do you want now ?" She pushed him
to one side, and assent forward for the keys; he went
out of the room. As she meet down again, a man
came out of the parlour, knocked the keys out of her
baud,. end said, " I'll blow your brains nut ;" she
meld, "If you dare." Ile snapped the pistot which
be pointed at her; aomething like the ramrod seemed
to drop; there was no fire. A ramrod was after-
wards found four steps up the stairs; the pistol was
snapped at the foot of the stairs. Ile bent down to
gather. up the ramrod, when she struck at him; she
missed him, and hurt her fingers on the lanthorn ; he
kicked-her very severely twice. A man came down
stabs then, and said, " Let us have no fighting this
mottling, we here got what we weld." She -saw .the
middle part of the face of the man with whom she
scurfild, his .chin and forehead were covered. Ile
held the lantern its his hand, and the moon shone
eery clear on the postage. She can know him again.
,Siti law that mats again in the Sherili'll-hell at Shef.
liekl; in April: She saw him new at the bar, John
Mitchell. (Ile esclaimed, "Oh ! you are a false
%omits.") She had fastened the door on the over
night. She saw the slate of the parlour *below
when she got up; any person could easily welkin
and out through it, all the lower part having been
broken to pieces. . .
Ilatinah Copley, the other servant, got up after
Yardsley, and as she-was leaving the room she was
knocked down. Something struck her on the he.d,
which pa a bole in it. She saw a man standing at
the parlour window, %he threatened her as she
rushed out. She ran towards the gate, where she
saw another man with a mask on. Ile caught hold
of her, hut said nothing. The mats who had been
at the windgw threatened to blow her brains out if
she did not return. She did gsa back, and stood
trembling at the side of the window while the other
men came nut. She saw three coming out, five its
all. She thought that George James, the Prisoner,
was the matt she saw at the gate. She had not seen
his face. llehad on a smock and a htd.
Mary Ano Keyworth was lately a prisoner in the
House of Correction in Wakefield. . She was its •
hay-loft in Lord Fiszwilliam's park ; she thought in
the fore end of Much. it was a good bit after her
birth-dey,.which was the 15th of February. She
Wes 'bete with Sarah Osley.. There was a man with
them, William Sellars. About eight men came about
three o'clock. all together. She knew some of them,
John Mitchell, John Phillips, and George James;
she also knew William Ilaig by name. Before they
saw witness's party she heard them speak below stair,.
John Phillips said,." You kuow, lads, you most not I
ha ye that money I got for the bees I took front Kim.
herworth." " I don't desire it," one of thesis said.
John Mitchell said, " She would not have known
MP had it not been for the mask falling from my face."
Phillips said, "We most sell the watch." One said,
•fi If we do, we shall be found out." Another said,
" W4Oll break it in,bits." John Phillips put out his
arm and said, " We'll bide it here till we get an op-
portunity to sell it." John Phillips then saw her'
head, and came op. Ile asked her what she was doing
there? stilte retorted the question. Ile said he had
got a warrant against her, and took bold of her. She
said, " If you don't take care, let the cat out of
the poke." William Haig 'raid, as soon as they came
up stairs, that he heard ri I! a. Booth's house had been
broken into.
Cross-examined.—She and the two other persons
were upon some hay. She should be taken up eight
weeks next Wednesday. She wag not tet tried, and
was going back to the Sessions. She told - w hat she
heard to her mother, Elizabeth Walker, ea soon as
she got home, and told it steal to• Mrs. Hudson, the
second day after Hudson, the constable, had u.keti
her op.
On her direct examination again, eh. said that she
was nearer than Sellers or Oxley. She heard . only part
'amen,
their couvrfilltitte• She cow identified Mitchell,
liames, and Haig.
, Sarah Oates recollected being at the barn with she
last witness. She beard the men talk, but could
not tell exactly what they said. Key worth said she
Leese the voice of one ot them. She was nearer then
witness. There were six, Mitchell, George James,
Phillips, Steer, Haig, end assother whom she did .not
know ; llaig said, '• Mrs. Booth's we have robbed,
and this matt has confessed it." Phillips damned
him, and desired him to bold his noise.
Crosa.ezatained.—She did see William James there
that.dey..
William Waterfall, • constable, was present when
Haig was, examined before Mr. Parker on she 7th of
April, and proved the esetainatiou now produced.
Cross-examined.—Haig was confined in the room
where , persona intended to be witnesses used to be
confined. . .
,On direct examination resumed.—lle brought
• Phillips, James, Steer, end Mitchell from Sheffield to
York. Phillips was since deed. . Thither. was with
him. Plethora said they lied managed very ill in not
covering Mi'cheti'e face, as. well as the others. fled
'then the girl would ant have known him. Phillips
. said it was a d—d lie of the girl ; it was so dark,
that she could not know him. Mitchell answered
and said, " No, she could Dot know me."
Cross-examined.---Upost this. he askl there had
been a deal. of conversation besides. •
The elimination of Haig was pow read. Ilaig owl
the 7th wade a fill couteuien oldie facts stated by

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Mrs. HOotts, nameil the six4;ersons charged, and a Si.
usual Finer (Evans) as the party, and mentipned the
property taken. Mitchell's face wee er
ed with
his own 'black baud kerchief. The pistols were
loaded.
William Flatheri corroborated the last witnes.'s
testimony as to the conversation on the road from
Sheffield to York.. •
Tomas Smith, a constable at Sheffield, proved
Hoig's examioation oo the 10th, before Mr. Parker.
Cross-essmined.—He never did hear any promise
made to Haig that hejwould be esaminetres a witness
if he told the truth. At this examination Haig re-
fusetito . know Smith, the Prisoner, and refused to
sigh the paper, saying, what be bad sait4 he had said:
he should say no more.
Sarah 't ardsley, ezamined again, said she had
known Steer, James, and Haig. before. She saw
none of them the night of the robhery that she knew.
John Mitchell, the Prisoner, had only to say that
he was innocent. James, Steers Smith, and Ilsig,
made sitnilapdeclarstions.
Mary Galfi.l4olled to prove en alibi in behalf of
Mitchell, SaWslte lived at Wakefield. On the 21st
of February bast she came on a visit to Thomas
Mitchell, at Greaseborough, whose wife wet an ac-
quaintance Of her's. Thomas wag a cousin of-John's.
She went in at P 2 in the day. It wasa Saturday. She
slept at John Mitchell's, there being no bed for her
in Thomas's. John Mitchell has four children and
a wife. His wife said lie was poorly, and had been
all the day. She did not see him at all till Sunday
might bet wist nine and ten: she saw him thenin bed,
be•seemed very sick she slept with two of his chil-
dren ; she had sat up with him till three in the
morning. The last lime she saw him was when khe
left him that morning to go to bed.
WmoSellers, agent for.difTerent Gentlemen on col-
lieries, gave Mitchell a good character, and also
spoke well of Steer.
Mary Lister knew James; he is married : his wife
applied to her to come to their house on Sunday at.
terrionn, the 22d of February; to sit op with a child
thet was badly ; she sat up all night ; James went to
bed at 10 o'clock : at 11 she called him and his wife
up, as the child was worse, aad all sat upduring the
night. He is a nailer, and has fire children.
George Norman, in behalf of George Steer; said
Alit George Steer, John Steer, and Richard Mosley,
came over to him at Balpour, in Derbyshire, on
Sunday, the 2211 of February, in consequence of an
expectation that he coutil-get a pit to sink for them.
They stopped all night with, him, and he and they
and his daughter all came neat day to Rotherham,
whelp he had a home to sell.
John Steer, brother of the Prisoner, repeated the
some evidence. To the Court, he said he went to
Shetfielil,and should have spoken, but the witnesses
were net admitted into the room. They would hear
no wit DP94.

Some enquiry was made whether the Magistrates
had refused to hear evidence, but no satisfactory ac-
count could he obtained. Stew, the Prisoner, stated,
that Mr. Parker said he would bear no witnesses, as
they were not on their trial. Steel's examination set.
forth that he said he thought be had not seen aoy-of
the other Prisoners on the night of the 221 •
Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up, observing, that
against Smith they had nu evidence, and he mast be
acquitted.
The Jury retired at half-past three. They return•
ed a few minutes past four, and gave their verdict
George James. George Steer, Thomas Smith, Nut
Guilty; John Mitchell, William Haig, Guilty.
Mitchell, on twitting his fate, shook his head with'
an angry look towards the Jury. Haig stoodtrem-
bling. They were all immediately removed Irmo the
bar.


OIFORDSIIIRE

O(rotti).
There were nine cases entered for trial, of which
siz were undefended, and three referred. Of these,
two were Special Juries, one of which had proceed-
e4 us far as the statement of the case before a re-
ference took place. It was a case of seduction.

SIBS. BET BURRETT B. Dixon.
Mr. hem addressed the Jury, and said that ,it
was ilia painful duty to state to theta the particulars
of this case. The Plaintiff was a widow, a very re.
spectable woman, who for T.O years kept the White
Hart lots, in the town of Henley-upon-Thames.—
The Defendant was a young man, the sou of a per-
son in the same situatioo of life, his mother being
the occupier of a • still more considerable inn than
that of the Defendant, in the same town-=-Ae meant
the Lion. The Plaintiff, since the death of her
husband, continued to keep the White Hart. Pr*.
sioutly to. that, time the greatest degree of intimacy
had subsisted between both familes. The Defendant's
father Lehi* its a superior situation of Aire, showed
the greatest kindness to the Plaintiff's husbaudrand
Was frequently heard to declare his antious" desire
that a nearer eunnection m'ght take place between
the families. The Isushaisri of ti.ts Plaintiff died
about four years hack ; shottly before or after this
event, the young 'Lady in question, who had receiv-
ed a very elegant education, returned to her mothee's
, house. She was at that time sixteen years of age.—
Very soots after her return from school, she at-
tracted the notice of the Defendant, who was iuti-
mate at the house of the Plaintiff, sod he became
extremely attached to her. He was received-in the
manner which his declatations demanded, and the
Plaintiff placed every confidence in him, whom she
considered was to he the future husband of her
daughter. Besidei the very considerable inn which
the Plaintiff kept, she was in possession of a farm,
in a very retired situation, about two miles from
Henley. To that (atm she bad frequent occasion to
len-1111er daughter, whose name was Miss Tabitha,
and of whose seduction she complained. Upon these
occasions, the Defendant was permitted to eccom-
patty her without scruple, inasmuch 43 biti views were
suppos►d to he as honoural►fe an he had declared
them to he. For twelve months be thua continued
to visit, and ride end walk with the object of his
ardent affection. Upon one of those occasions he
thought proper to make a very rude attack upon her
person, and to assault her chastity. Ile Wllti repuls-
ed its a matn►er becoming the young Lady; but hay.
ing.possessed himself of her affections, he succeeded
in persuading her nut to make a disclaim of what

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