The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-19 00:00:00

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Mr. Whisrusa.a. at the sitting •of the Coatis ma'
that he appeared Isom, at ailklaeitallk4l.6l,4lde sesllt
for so iejonetieo to restrain the defendant Om ern&
ahvg the pahlinidan of .the sixth. sissfesstik lei ddibi
mem of a pots entitled Dos Jima. of dab 11110.L1
noble piaistiff. ens the anther. 'Rho Learned CSIIIIIM#
stated, that he bad read the work thesagh. sad tinbill
not observed-say thing is it which did not de serve
protection of the law.
The VMS CIWICIII4OII Oka if ley appliesdill 01
this kind relating to there cantos bad bees portionsly
. saga and es receiving anenewer is the negative. granted
lajanatioe.
erenitigEworoligi

Mrs. "maddens stated dud erbe lived with the
secottia. On Ifethteeduy night. the 2d of April, at
o'clock. the whams, after scautiaieg the doors %Add
doves, sad easing them saielimmored, retired us bet,
litde baste tee• o'clock eke weivalseseed by the appal!:
rasoir if two oleo, atm Menthe" lee. with Oast bee
otthem spoke % her. wad &tired hew be deliver her 0.-
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gold, or they would sheet lust that sra
their gnus ether atlas:see tare. She replied
abot sot be. at, bat that if they bad patience, they
bare all she had Thor then forced aft
et bed, by renevelag thetheist et stootiag hit; she got
sp. unlocked the dmwets, sad gam them SOL in 3L
setae. They thew asked bee for geld; she replied slur
had none; they were edit titesadste4l, and made her o”r
a writing teak :' ea it osetaitted. however, aethiug bat
four soiled' muslin handheraists, they west away. A
rush-light was horning's' bey 'seas at the dale. Ashton
and Bassett, the yottnger, pleaded guilty yesterday, Wlre
the two who mitered the room. Sbe asked them hew
they had sawed die-house, and they said she woold
knew too soots. They the* rattled dome stales, odd
went out by the same bole through which they bad en-
tered. Ina few miasma she west down stairs with a
invent-mid, and afterwards went op again into Mrs.
Leybooree's room, where the fotted five locks broken.—
In one barest she had the night before deposited a
pocket-hoek,contaisiog 1201.; themousy was gone, and
the book tern; from another bureau, some old silver
coin was taken. They had entree& by breaking the well
between the outer window sod the seat.
Pardee, the constable. peeved the apprehension of Ilse
prisoner, and the three others. oa the btb of April. The
prisoner, on being charged with the robbery, denied it to-
tally ; and said, that oa the night in question, one Martin's
boy came to him between nine and ten o'cloek. to tell him
to come early twat morning to work for his master. and that
the same boy (Kidd) came at the boor appointed. and called
,Vll4ll.
rtin, another of the local police, proved that
the
saner bad .voluntarily confessed to him, he was
ragged into this robbery. Witness observed, "Dragged
into it I they could not carry thee r Yes, replied the
prisoser, "old danced called me out, and said they
were come." The former said they were seen, but Bun.
sett replied." No, we have not been seen." Welke(
added, that he was not in she house.
Wm. Cordnkes examined by Mr. Couvritax.—Mas
landlord of the public-house at Torrington, add remem-
bered last witness bringing prisoner there in custody.—
He overheard a little of their conversation, particularly
the chiding him for being in a bad job. sad the prison-
er's reply, that he was called upon and dragged to it.
Witness haviag been called from the bar, beard no more
about it.
George Kidd, servant to Phineas Martin, examined.—
Denied that on Wednesday evening, the 2d April, bohad
called at prisoner's bon:* on any account wbutever. or
desired him to come to work, either on that evening, or
called him op the next morning.
f The case being here closed for the prosecution, the
prisoner in his defence said he was quite innocent of the
crime, and had friends to speak for hint.
Hobert Hell examined.—Lived in Torrington ; knew
the prisoner, and remeinbered hearing of the robbery on
the Wednesday night. On the Thursday morning, at
five o'clock, he saw the prisoner at a blacksmith's shop,
and spoke to him. He knew kim for 27 years, and he
bore an excellent character.
John Ellaby, a farmer at Tenington, bore testimony
to the prisoael's character for the last 30 years, 20 of
whick he bad worked of and on for witness and his
father.
Several other witnesses corroborated this evidence as to
character, and for the same space of time.
Mr. Justice HOLROYD summed up the evidence.
The jory. after a short consuitattoo, returned a verdict
of—Not Utility.
IItOANT.

ASIUTE artEtiuomen

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DORCtficsT as SR, Tnoeav, Jun 17.
• civis. givr.
•Befbre Kr. Jeratice Binellol7an are a Common Jerry:
ISt/BACH of eaolitse as nenatese.—astiater v. steno?.
ar,WILDJI opened the pleadiap. %he declaraddn
*tided that, the defendant undertook and Prehoteod. to
marry the 0444 Which promise he bad since refteat•
' i to perform, andired ,merried another woman. • The the!
• , i fendatit_pkided.thst he. IA made bench promise.
• e• . Mr. Wthht.sere. steles/the plaintiffs come to the jar7.l
' ' .... His client was.. be.said, moving in the bumble walks of
life, being the daughter eif a small farmer is this comity. i
• defendant has is similar eirenostances, tboegb by
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latheot a reyl.dosisr
181b2 both e had
th becestathe
parties
smanwereof
fa service at Berme, sear Bridport, sad lived oppoelte
. • to each Other. Daring the years 1811 and 'lBl2 the de;
• fendeolmeauW attached to the plaintiff who was that
living in the respectable service of Mrs. Barker, be, at
thecae. beinghn the service of bis'oncle. The bile&
• ant at that time took advantage of the asides Al*:
the plaintiff setestalsed for him, aid the
wras that she looninse pregnant by him. lid=ralli yie
withdrew her from her situation, and plami* her Is tar
Louse of anhepherd in the eervice of his *tole. where
she wile otelivered of a child. He paid the gestalt
atteotioe to liar when there, and st that time and iii
mquently be made those promises which were the ftrasel.
anion of the' resent action. The plaintiff • wilw
•sequently ' Neat into several respectable sanitise
and 'With the'exception of that stain on her chorister
whiat'hie defendant had been instrumental in affixing,
she had lived most irreproachably. The marriage was,
put off till the death of the defendant's uncle, bather,
diately. on that event taking place, by which be became
possessed of 3,0001.0 r 4,0001., the defendant, instead of fel;
tilling his engagement to the plainti ff,aterried another woman,
John Tizard examined by Mr. WILDS.—I am a ,
la-
bourer. 1 know Elizabeth Knight and Joseph Bishop:"
1` khoWn Elizabeth Knight for 12 pent, at Malden-
Netiton, Hee father has a little estate of his own. 1
- hire known the defendant 20 years. Twelve years ago
the plaintiff was about 20, sad the defendant about 25
years of age. The plaintiff game to my home about that
time, at the desire of the defendant. She was brought
to bed at my house. After that.l heard the defendant
tell her that he would make her his wife. 1 have
known the parties since. The plaintiff has been in dif-
ferent respectable services. 1 have seen them at my house
in the year 1820. The plaintiff had then just left the
service of Mr. tiroves, of Weymouth. 1 beard
fethiset say that after the decease ot his uncle he (
would
. „ marry her. 1 heard him say that more than once. They-
, had Leen talking together all the evening. She asked
Lim when be intended to marry her. He asked her if
. she could not stop another year, and see how that woad
' turn out, and she said she would wait. 'They were talk=
inn about marrying, and be said he could net marry, as
i.e could get no home, and be said he must have my
house; and 1 said iith all my heart. Dlr. Bishop's uncle
was my landlord.- 1 last beard the defendant talk about
marrying in the latter end of 1821. His sock is dead;
and he is since married to Ann Medway, in February
• last. He has. got his uncle's property.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Piht..—The defendant
said, 1 will make no other woman my wife but yea.
They were baying bread'and cheese and beer at the Mao.
She said she was " very ready, very agreeable." 1 sew
them at my house aboht 12 months afterwards, and be
then said he would marry her, and she said-theu she wee
ready and agreeable as before. 1 have had a dispute
with the defendant. About six months ago he tumid
me out of doors. Miss Knight never told me she would
• get me another house lent free, if 1 mane forward as a
witness. 1 came here with her : she asked me if I did
not honember the defendant promising to marry her, and
1 told her I did. 1 knew 4 man named Sheppard, be, I,'
anti the plaintiff' were together once. I did not hear
• Knight „say, that if 1 would come forward and prove
what Iliad promised her, that she would get me a house
rent-free. It was at the fair in last March that we were
together.
By the Jehoe.—She was brhught to bed about seven
weeks after she was at my house; she remained about
. . seven meths in all ; the defendant desired me once
not to let the plaintiff come to my house, it made his un-
• tie angry.
Mary Shard examined by Mr. WILLIAMS.--I romem-
. iefrotmeng the defendant at Sidling fair, in December
1321; lie asked tue to dance with him, and 1 said, if he
wanted any one to dance with; be should go and dance
with Elizabeth Knight ; he asked me if I knew her ; I
said yes ; and he said he would treat me for her sake ;
lie spoke very well of her, and said he had a great regard
- gm. her ; and I asked why he did not have her then, and
• he said he would when his uncle was dead. 1
• Cross-examined."--1 have known the plaintiff these 101
or I I years, but not intimately; I heard 'about the child
. being sworn.to Bishop, but never heard her say so; I
li%e with my father and mother. • . .
Mr. Sergeant Pam. objected that theta was no Court
in the` dedlasion under which the plaintiff could re-1
.„ cover.
Mr. Justice Beaaouon thought the declaration suffi-
cient.
• Mr. Sergeant Path (with whom was Mr. Bankes) then
addressed the Jury for the defendant. He expressed his
latentiou to no witnesses, being content to trust his'
case on chewy' e already adduced, and rely on the}
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good sense and. scerument of the jury as men of the!
wotid for a verdict for the defendant. lie urged the
staleness of the complaint, and the slight evidence on
which the supposed promise of marriage rested. 1
'ThiLearnedJudee having maimed up the evidence, the
' • Jtky, tiller consulting* together for a short time, return-
-, Al Airgediet for the plain:a—Damages 2001.
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YORK. WalinencoaT, JULY 16.
• citowte Slat —ttUatiLaitY.
!rm. Walker was indicted for feloniously and burgle-
; riously, entering the dwelling-house of Airs. Ann Ley--
. bourne, situate in the township of Debby, in the North
• Riding, and stealing therefrom sundry -promissory notes
of the value of 501. and upwards the property of the
- said Mrs. heybourne, and also sundry other promissory
notes to the value of 501. the property of Sarah Kirk
• Langdon.
Tile ReconDsa (of York) stated the ease to the jury.
lie remarked that the prosecutrix was a lady of Matto*,
upwards of 30 years of age, with whom a younger Lady,
. Mrs. Langdon, resided as a companion. The learned
Recorder then described the facts of the case, as they
were dev•sloped.in the following evidence, and remarked
three of the prisoner's companion bad yesterday
' guilty to this charge.
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Stephen Sledding was charged with having, on the
23d of March, 1823, at the parish of Leeds, feloniously
married one Mary Kirkham, spinster, behaving a former
wife then living.
The pi ironer, wbo was a young man of very plain ap
pearaoce, pleaded guilty to the charge, although he was
advised by the Court to consider seriously The conse-
quences of such a plea, and that it was not likely to avlll
him in mitigation of punishment.
HOZSZATICALING.
Adam Armstrong was indicted for feloniously stealing
and carrying away a gray horse pony, with a saddle and
bridle, the property, or John Whitlieg, of heeming-lane,
lo the county of York, on the 17th of July, 1815.
Mr. Dun Des sifted the case for the prosecution.
John W hiding proved that in July, 1815, the prisoner
came to his house, the Oak lan, Leemieg-lane, and took
up his lodgings at the place, under pretence of waiting
for his father, who was, according to his account, com-
ing to the neighbouring fair. After waiting three days,
prisoner said his father must have gone by Nortbalerton,
and be went to seek him ; borrowing at the same time a
gray poney, worth five guineas, and the horse and sad-
dle. He never heard a word about the prisoner after,
except that be was an odd fellow. until a short time ago,
when be casually met him alighting from the Carlisle
Broach: be took the opportunity of stopping him, saying,
"la it not time for you to return my pony ?" The pn.'
' rover pretended to know nothing of him, and escaped
Into the street. He afterwards met him by accident, and
bad bins seised.
On the part of the prisoner, an attempt was made to
show that he had merely borrowed the pony, and that
the landlord had known him ; that an attempt was made
subsequently to compromise the felony, and that the
plaintiff was ready to accept 401. and abandon the prose-
cution ; but the evidence failed to support this view of
the case. Verdict Guilty.
There was nothing particular at the civil side this day.

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