The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-13 00:00:00

OLD DAILEY ISESSIO.I7I:.-(Ttur DAr.)

Jests frilliest* • boy 17 years of Iv wns indicte I
for stealing, es the Veiwasei las a womb q 1
ether articles, fres, the peewee( join aylor.
fbe presecator stated, that ma the evesing.in gaie-
ties, he was going dews , Urydgesmtreet, when bo
receive.' a violent blow upon the back, and whilst at.
tempting to turn mend, was assanlteil by another per-
son, who tueeeded in robbing him of Lis watch. Ono
of the mbhers escaped, bet the prisoner was secured.
Witness dragged the prisoner iota a public-house, and
with some difficulty proemial an ol cer. Is the rout',
whom be took the prisoner, setregal persons were as-
sembled, apparently in deep consaltation.. l'heY sue-
ceeded is rescuing the prisoner, but spun the lmes' of
the officer he was again apprehended. Witness did sot
observe the prisoner speak to the-person who. Joh.;
with him in the nessett. He believed the permits who
escaped bad possessive of the watch. Nothing was
foetid upon the prisoner. • •
The prisoner cross-esamisrd the witness with some
ingenuity, and appealed to the Jury whether it teas
likely that a buy ut hiss sine should attack a man whose
strength r ',sem remli superior to his own.
The prisoner was found Guilty.
James Hayti, a Inas of wretched sprarance, was
charged with stealing from the shop of Joseph Sparks.
15 var.., of bonitiasin.
The wife ut the prosecutor stated the circuniststice of
the rubbery, which she stated to hare been committed
on the morning of the 14th of Mar b. I!er attennon
was erma by a noise at the shop window, through
which someone had contrived to draw the stolen artietes.
Wittig,. observed a person rise fron, ender the >e whin,
and immediately must oat and raw the prisouer at a few
yards distance. No other persor was in the street. The
prisoner was pursure, and threw down the lionshasin at
tle• turner of Taristock.sreee,,
Thos. ?filton, who saw the piisotter throw down the
property, .brred to that fact.
1 hot. Middleton, a rilicmofficer, who stopped the
flight of the prisoner, produced the booth-gain, which
3tts. Sparks identified as her property.
7he Jury found the prisoner Guilty, bet recommended
hint to mercy. In this recommendation the prosecutor
concurred.
In the abuTe rise, the Jnry seemed desirous of findin:
the property under the value of dt.hi. and nal:A-situ Mr.
Jamie, PARK for advice epee this suitject. Thin Learned
dodge observed, that rases where the property ass or
so ideal valt4, it was very proper that a Jury should
affix to it a bat stine they pleased, l.ut that in this cal,.
where the value bad becu so decidedly sworn to, 1 e
could n,.t recommend them to stretch ti,eir cow:letters
so far. It was Loiterer fur them to decit'e.

TO THE EDIT OF THE snirrsir.ix.

Sti—l have this instant retnrnrd from er:Aness'eg a
worse than useless sacrifice of Litman Ii!--fire healthy,
good looking votteg men, have been executed. to 'p-
hrase the offended laws, as administered in this country :
foot of !h.= acknowledged their eMr, anti f•artessty
resigned themselves to their fate. while they seemed to
feel'lnore tor that of the fifth, Heurge Bird, of whose in-
norerwe they all dechired themselves rnieineed. Whets
just shout to b, turned off, in answer to a questirm put
by the desire of Sheriff Perkins, through his deeity'
Mr. Polka, as to bit heeler.; h).' any thint to do
with the rubbery sof Mr. itittie's loo.ttae, at arson's-
green, fieor,..• Bird dec!ared. most Fusitivelv. that
he was innocent of it. and repeztru aloud " I ins
innocent—Gentlemen, I ant a escrtier si n 1111-4uT lil
murdered roan." His brother, .loh 9. celled out,
tiered the innocence of his brother. saying tsi t list 4
out co mpowned witAiliiiritt the . ,I
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(omit io u effort, 'tried up his feet. and lied tat'
the edge of the platform, until they wstif
down by the execntionei. The horrid s:ebt Iris'
appalling to every feeling heart. :Jr, Sheriff •
was et, touch overcorne that he seemed o.w/eh:lila t '
and was obliged to kite the ph.E',,res en w:,il-11: the
Sheriffs stand. I have been credibly infant!! I, by i
presets acquainted with the intern tl armneernerite in
Nenrate, that Sheriff Parkins has exerted himself very
much to elicit the truth, es fu the guilt or innocence
oftieorge Bird, and that the Sheriff, under the fullest
conviction of ihr letter, set off late b.t night to the eosin-
try residence of Lord Sidinirh, with :reined, tending iiffr
to 'mole the innocence of Heor..e Bird. The Sheriff 4'
did out return to Wien until ene this morning. and
sorry I ant to say, that his betievolent application was
not attended with success, as his Lordships mind could
not be chatig.d as to • eumiction of the unfortunate
man's gnilt. The eircurat•antial en-Weisel of a persuni
who le now in the hand' vf justice for a rini:lar offence.
was principally relied on in proof of the charge agaiost
him.
The aselessnese of the fr.:quart dret,iful sacrifice
of Inman life is too evident to need any comment.
In the first place, it is entirely lust %mu the sur-
rounding spectators, who hehn'A it as a common
spectacle. with apathy and indiffertime.—And as to
the tinfortroate sufferers, their condort (as oe this oc-
casion) too commonly tends to destroy those'revere
which are Intended as a plinithre-nt foe crime. it
is impossible to consider it as any repetition M the
persons on Whom the offence have been consmitterft but.
on the contrary, the expellee of a proseeutioin. awl the
waste of time, is frequently a more serious evil" than dui