The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-08 00:00:00

OLD BIILEY.

THURSDAY, DI.C. 7.
Carl liqfltold was capitally indicted for ah•al-
ing in the Irveli;ng-honse of John Smith, a Bank
of England note fur the payment of tool. the pro-
perty of Grilled; Hanson.
The Prosecutor is a German by birth, and the
Captain of a trading vessel from Bronco to
Landon► and the Prisoner is a native of the same 11
country, a surgeon by profession, and had been
in that capacity several voyages with thu Prose-
came. The circumstances of the case as detailed
in evidence were the follow ing :—Oa the 23:1 of
November last, the Prosecutor received MI. Bank
Note from the house of Messrs. Prescott and
Co. which he deposited in the drawer of a dressing
table, at his lodging in the Minories. The Pri.
goner had been in the habit, since his arrival ;is
England from Germany, of calling daily on the
Prosecutor fur instructions relative to the ensuing
voyage. About twel►e o'clock on the day men.
tinned iu the indi.•tu►ent, he called as usual at the
Prosecutor's residence, but the latter not bring at
home, he was shown up to his apartmtaits to wait
his arrival. Not tooting, hoot,. vt,r, in any rea-
sonabl2 time, he went away, and promised to
call 'text morning. lit the course of the same
cvenine, t!►e Prosecutor returuel and missed his
NM. :tote !eon) the drawer. Ile r11:11:' eve ry en-
quiry, but mild dis:•over no traces of it wit never.
Suspicion a! length fell upon the Prisoner, who
did not call the next morning porsuant to his pro-
mise. and a warrant was obtained for his appre-
hensino. The Sheik ell Police Oliicers, in the
course of their enquiries, a-certained ti►at a hun-
dred pound note had been of reel by a foreigner
answering the Prisoner's descri;:tiou, in payment
for a silver oatch, valise AI. to a watch-maker
named Sharp, t'te day after the robbery was
committed, which w.ttch was afterwards traced to
a pawnbroker's shop in the Minorie, where it
was also pledge:l by a foreigner answcriag the
loner's description in (tarry respect.
Mr. Sharp, the watch-maker, swore, that the
Prisoner offered hint a handrer Found note on
the.. morning' after the robbery %tag alleged to
ban been committed, in payment for a watch
value 51. and that hn gave a check fir 951. on th.
house of Mesita'. Newnham alai Co. bankers.—
He was positive as to the Pr;soner's identity, and
on being shown the note, swore that it was the
same the Prisoner passed to hie►.
The pawnbroker also identiCed the Prisoner,
with the circumstance of the watch being pledged.
The only link of the chain of evidence deficimit
I :wog the absence of proof wi'h respect to the note
question being the same :hat Messrs. Presto!'
and Co. paid to the Prosecutor. This circum-
stance was occasioned by the steruvions intended
to be served on the clerk who paid it bring
I mislaid. He was found Guilty—Death.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

HICKS'S HALL.
711ur:day, DeccmGer 7.
THE KINIVI r. JOIIN TYlti.

Thii was an idietmt tit which excited a consi-
derable degree of public interest, as it will prob.!.
bly prevent, in future, a practice which has b..en
fur a long time adopted in gross violation of pith.
tic decency, that of bathing publicly in the New
River. The indictment charged the Defend.int
with unlawly ►exposing himself naked by bathing
in the New River publicly, in presence of divers
persons in a certain place contiguous to flighbury.
place.
It appeared in evidence diet the Defendant,

who is an inhabitant of Islington, went on the
evening of the 29th of June last, for the purp,to
of bathing in the New River, at the foot of the
notice pit which had been erected for the porno:ft
of warning the public against bathing in that rive .r.;
that two constables hail told him at the time that
he (Net not to do so, bat ;hat the Defendant insio.
rd for bid a right to ilo so, and would assert it, and
• accordingl v stripped and hathed,andafterwarilsran
naked for some distance in the field, in front o!
she koilies of ilizlibury-pl:sco. The Cunt',
sauffiffie up the eti‘it'nee, reorobated the ,'rat..
lice that. had so long prevaile.l, as highly E.!tirer.
sive Of ptiIIFIC illd contrary t It
The Jury found filo 1) guilty, and t:!t:
Court sculenred the Defendant to two months kJ-
prisotini-nt in Negate ; and declared that !tiny
indicted so mild a punishment, oily in cnnsidei.
anon that it was the first offelica of this kind
brought before them ; and that probably many of.
femird hi this respect thro' ignorance of the law :
but hut, in fu re,shou .4n di aerie he brotight he-
I fore them, they would inflict a most exemplary
punishonvnt on the off.nder.