The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-11 00:00:00

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EMBItCSLZMENT or STATIONSItY.—On iirennestlay the
Court was occupied with a cue which excited great interest
in Dublin. Williams Williams (second clerk in the
Fetstionery department of the Customs), and Theophilvs
I'aylor (!hird clerk of the Excisedepartinent). were pieced,
at the bar, together with John AlToriniek, trillions
Edmonds, and Patrick Turner, and arraigned under the
charge of conspiring, &e. to embezzle stationery front lbw
Cuomo House, Dublin ; and for haying, on the 15 h Oct,
last. taken and carried away 100 trim of paper, value one
shilling ouch.—'there were supplementary coasts attached,
to the principal ehaike.
The Arrosseigt ClzxXitab steel
.14„.tke_ Jary,,JlkaLthet-
ttlioSellitees.lTVlPerriparirtirtne oHleers of Customs end
Excise alwayseiceedell *kat their consumption required.
and it we's a general practice for them to well the surplu,
which they usually did toSir Abraham Bradley King (the
GOreronient Paper Contractor)*; that Sir Abraham took
the paper .back at the same price, upon which there was
derived no profit, and autth an, allowance went as part (LC
their salary. The Learned Gentleman added, that it would
be proved they sold back to the officers muck more Mei:
than their salary would amount to. The precedent was
altogether a bad one, and led to a system of spoliation and
plunder, which required to be sifted to the bottom. Vice
were varbees transactions, but the prosecution• was for the
single one on the 15th Oct.
After the Attorney General had addressed the Jury, and
nonserone witnesses had been examined, Sergeant 00014
submitted to the Court, that if the prisoners were under
an Impression that the paper was their property, and front
that conviction appropriated it to their own use, they could.
not be found guilty of larceny.
The AFTORNICY Gemmea said, that if the prosecntorw
couceived the prisoners were under an erroneous impres-
sion of the paper being their prerogative, they would mot
have been presented: bat if the prisoners had that mistaken
idea, they could not be convieteu.
Baron SMITH charged the Jury, who, after a few
minutes conversation, returned a verdict of Acquittal for
both prisoners, who were congratulated by a host of friends
upon their delivery.
On Frith''', William Williams. (who was acquitted nit
Wednesday on another indictment), was Indicted rot
stealing one hundred quires of paper, on A particular slay.
He seas further indicted fOr stealing one hundred quires of
paper omayakepgrAsity. Pottle': Turner was indicted for
stealing ajiaperkonnd book, and five quire of paper; and
William Williams. Pa:rick Turner, Joon 51.Cormick, and
William Edmonds, were indicted fur conspiring to steal
paper.
The ItteOßDglt stated to the Court, that in consequence
' of the result of the former trial on the 'above transaction.
It bad bcen resolved not to offer any evidente in the present
cases on the part of the prosecutiob.
Th. Jury then, by direction of the Court, retnr• id 4
verdict of Nut Guilty in each Case.
.4.* . Modawil Holies and Edward Jeftwittra, who had twee
similarly indicted, were also acquitted, nu evidence having
been produced.
Titrasovr, Nor. 6 —Him Crown, the elder, was indict•
' ed for having feloniously taken, on the 14th of September
last, in the parish of St. Andrew, in this city, four banker;
notes, of the value of 1001. each, the property of Mr.
Patrick Desmond ; and Ann Sullins was indicted for con.
spiting with, and aiding and counselling the said John
Brown before be committed said felony, for the purpose of
defrauding the said Desmond.
'l'he prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. IVALLACt stated the case.

Charlotte Desmond, examined by the Recorder.—{Vii
ness is a married lady; her husband ib Patrick Desmond ;
witness is not long married to him. Witness here identifi-
ed the prisoner Ann Sallins; witness lodged for ten weeks
in a tavern or eatinghonse kept by her; saw the prisoner.
Brown, there during the last ten days of the ten weeks she
lodged there ; he dined there as a hoarder.; she was given
to understand by Brown's son, that his father was a smug-
gler ; after witness left Sailing's, she and her husband went
to lode at 22, South Cindherland Street ; about two data
after she went there. she left her husband in consequence
of a dispute ; took from him, without his knowledge, four
notes of the Bank of Ireland ; witness went first to a Mrs.
Thorne's, in Markel' Street ; remained there about tem
minutes; from thence she went in company with her bro-
ther:And took a lodging in Bow Lane ; went there on
Monday, 8-li September ;on the Friday following Brown
tame there ; he told her that Mrs. Sailing told him that
the witness had a tante she wanted cash for; witness thinks
it was about twelve o'clock in the day ; Mrs. Sallins
had called on witness the evening before, and also
about a quarter of an hour before Brown called on Friday.
Mrs. Sallins told witness that a gentleman had told her (Mrs.
Sallins) that he met witness's husband coming out of the
Bank, and that Mr. Desmond, (witness's husband,) told that
gentleman that witness had robbed him, (her husband), of a
thousand pounds, and that the notes taken would be stopped at
the Bank and all other public places; bet Mrs. Bailin' told
witness that notwithstanding that obstacle, she thought she
(Seines) could get one note changed for witness, and desired
witness not Jo want any money, for she would give her
she required, until witness got the notes cashed ; Saltine did
not on Tnursilay night mention the Gentleman's name; wit
ness told Anne Sailing on Friday when she called, that t. •
notes were not in witness's possession, but witness sa;
she would send for her brother or a friend; her brother
happened to coma in just as Mrs. Sullins was going away.
Sallins communicated to him the ;Laura of her visit, and
desired witness then to send her brother for the notes;
this the witness dec,ined to do, saying that she hod other-
places then to send him to; witness was unwell and in.
bed; ti-th the Brown's cam to her lodgings about
a quaver of an hour after Mrs. Sallins went away
Brown the elder then said, he could not only cash one
note, but get the four cashed by a Dutch merchant the,l
in town, and that be was on his way to that merchant, to
whom he had to make a payment, as that merchant was
going immediately to Holland; Brown said witness might
as well have the notes he was going to pay away for
one of her notes, but witness toil Brown she had not th.•
notes in her possession; he pressed her to return to Mrs.
Sallins's, and raked witness why she did not do so after
leaving lion hushatrl ; witness said it was the lost
she wruld think of going to, as Mr. Wseintill had as
unfavourable impression of the character of Mrs. Sallins
saw riming Brown twice best day at sin or seven o'clock
was the last tilts? ; witness referred him each time to
her brother r• young Brown said, that his father was
getting jealms of witness's not having eonlidence in:him,
and that if witness di i not avail herself of his fatur's
assistance row, its the Dutch merclreirt was Pat rOl,
a Wale, she would nneer hsve stern an opportnni'y again
Yatt.:l„; Broslnj railed on Stmday at,o;:t 1..0 o'clock ; e

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said that the Deitch merchant would be at the Commercial
Buildings •bnut two o'elork ; went to Ohl Brown's lodg.
icra, €6. Dame Street. about five o'clock, accompanied by
a Mrs. tiogarty, the lady's daughter in law, where witness
kedged, and a Mr. Kelly • witness met the elder Brown
on the stairs: he said he hail sent his son several times
for witness: on the elder Brown's seeing Mr. Kelly. he
asked witness who he was; witness said he was a friend
of her's, that lie nerd not lie under any restraint for
him, as confidence might be placed in him ; Brown said
it was not right of witness to bring lire friends a' out him
to expose him : Brown said he would not suffer Kelly to
be present; ,Brown ushered witness into the drawing-
room, and conducted Kelly to another room leading from
it ; Brown then asked witness had she the notes about
her; he said that the Dutch merchant had a country

pine some distance off, where lie (the merchant) would
h ive to go to first, and wonbl slier go MI to Holland at
font o'clock next morning ; witness said elle had the
Votes with her, and sent her brother to Mrs. Hogarty,
who was in the street, in the coach that witness
came in, and was the person that hail possession
of the notes for this witness; witness's brother
brought witness the notes, and witness reckon•

est the notes to old Brown on the drawing-room
taSle; he pot his hand on them and shoved theta to the
other side of the table where his son was standing, and
a. d, " John, don't be long away ;" she counted to Brown
four notes of 100/. each ; young Brown said, he would not
be ten minutes away, when the father said, " oh, we will
give you a quarter of an hour ;" when witness saw young
ijvnwn taking the notes, she turned to her brother and said
to hi n, " go along with him," but old Wotan said that
w nl t not be right, that young Brown must go by himself;
w ne•a became alarmed when the restricted quarter of on
hoer elapsed, but old Brown desired witness not to be
slarmed, tbat his son had often larger sums of money in
possession, and that perhaps the delay arose from the
batch merchant's rot beihg at the Commercial Buildings,.
hot prObably at his house in Stephen's (irnen, where his
:tan io that case woald have to go ; witness became more
alarmed, but Brown seemed anxious to make her tranquil
by one story or another; Brown spoke a great deal of his
own respectability—of his little regard of monoy—of his
daughter beingat a boarding-school in England—and that
he forfeited a fee, paid for his son, to, witness believes, a
Mr. O'Flalierty, in Sackville Street; but that he did not
regard such expences; witness being still greatly alarmed,
Brown said she need not be uneasy if the Dutch merchant
had her notes even 4S hours; he was a man of such respect.
ability and wealth, that Brown offered, in order to appease
thik wanes. to give her his own note, not only for the
4001. but bdo/. payable next day; witness told Brown what
was his note to her; but she w. nll take it if secured by
some person of property known to b• worth 4001.; witness
even offered tb take Brown's own note for the 400/. if
Brown would allow her bristlier to stay with him till next
day; thrown went out to look, as if for his san; witness
made her brother accompany him and hold his arm; and
witness made Mr. Kelly walk after them, lest Brown should
attempt to run away; they were not long out; witness
remained in Brown's lodgings from live o'clock till near
twelve at night; Brown at length became quite violent in
his lodgings: said he would not be detained by witness
and her friends, mid that he could by a single call get them
all murdered ; Brown threatened witness it she attempted
to injure his character, that be would put her on the
watch ; at length, a race-otlicer was procured, and Brown
was apprehended; wyness never saw the 4001 notes since;
witness did not see Mrs. Sallins on Sunday.
The witness, who is a handsome, and uncommonly
smart woman,underwent a very long cross examination by
Counsellor O'Connel.
Mrs. €4..garty was exatpined, and her testimony went
fully to contirm Mrs. Desmond's statement respecting the
conduct of Brown on the Sunday, and on other
points. She also underwent a long cross examination.
Mr. Desmond's brother, Pinder, was examine i to cor-
roborate his sister's testimony, but the embarrassed and
awkward manner in which he appeared on his cross-
examination, occasionally threw tile whole Court into
laughter.
A Mr. Carrigan, the attorney for the prisoner, Salting,
and Mr. Al`Nally, who stated that he conducts his
business, were the only witnesses examined for the de-
fence.
Justice Barton, in his charge, which occupied more than
an hoar, commented at considerable length on the evi-
dence, and drew a line of distinction between the cases
of Brown and Sullins; the latter of whom his Lordship
conceived might, as well as Mrs. Desmond, have been
deceived to a certain extent by the representations of
Brown.
The Jury retired at about a quarter after six o'clock, and
in about 20 minutes returned a verdict of Guilty of the
respective felonies, against the ' prisoners ; upon which the
prisoner, !)allies, who was in the front of the dock, seemed
deeply affected.