The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-26 00:00:00

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SUSSEX

ASSIZES.

Iletoiris DAT,. Dee. 11, .
hobStet' ete Tile nantisicis sans POTItt.
Desie, aged 27, charged as suspicion of having,
en the 6thr if September, 'broken open the hen chest in a
terrier's waggon. at Battle. and feloniously stolen there-
'll.* 3001. it stied cola, 2,3001. to protnissery notes of the
Hastings Belk, illikktwe bills of excitant* for 1001. and
• isirWerai. the prepay of Tilden Smith, William Gill, sod
MU Inkier.
The trial excited Entail rest, and no less thin twenty.
sae whereat.' were examined for the prosecution.
Josses Gilbert, clerk to Messrs. Everett end Ce.bankers,
lo tendon, befog swore, said the notes of Messrs. Tilden.
Nupith. and Co., bankers. of Hastings *remade payable at
ihebsouse of Messrs. Everett, after which they.are returned
lellastings by waggon. Oo the 3d of September remem-
bered to bays given the netei in question in a parcel, and
the silver in three bags, containing 1001. each to Joseph
10111reet.
-Joseph Gilbert, remembered receiving the notes
11114 silver from James Gilbert, which he took to the
memos io the Spar Inn yard, Borough, and locked them
Su ea iron chest which is made for that perpole, in the
4 had of the waggon, near the'fore part, under four locks, of
which he tool* the keys haekto the bankhig hone.
---- Freed', the waggoner, awore.--On the Mho( Miguel
'W was goins to London with his waggon; saw the prlsolter
smSiWer bill, end another person with him, seven mihesfreshi
We; they asked him several questleee as to whetalte.
eftpped ; be told themat'Lembechurst, eight miles farther seek
where he arrived; but In consequence of his suspicion
awakened, he resolved to watch his waggon that night, al:21
be did, In company with some otbers ; and about one o'clockle
the morning the prisoner nod others came 'boa the weggoia
one to the part wherllebe chest was. and then away'for a sheet
time. When they returned, the party watching rushed out an 3
*caned Davis, who was conlined in the cage, but soon after.
wards liberated. Ott Friday, the sth of September, get back
from London to Hastings; there were three large bales of
batmen the chest in the weeps°. which would require several
persons to more them. The yard where the waggon stood was
seelosed on all sides by a wall or buildings, and the gates were
leaed at 12 o'clock.
Island sworn.—liebelonged to the yard ; when helot
op about eve o'clock on the morning after the robbery, be
found thebeles thrown from the wegeon, -end the tilt of the
wimp cut away, and the chest uncovered, the upper co•ering
Grease of it being taken away, but the chest was locked again
after the contents had been stolen. He found In the waggon a
snow wrench ands loek which had been broken from the chest.
The ioeki were hampered, so that the proper keys would not
Mach them.
S I keepers of the turnpike gates were sworn and exa-
mined, wipes evideoce tended to show that about the time of
the robbily, four men, two on horseback, and two in gigs,
drove to Battle in great haste, 'and afterwards on the morning
of ti.e robbery, returned towards London. None of the wit-
nesses, however, were able to. identify the pelican'.
John Cat, landlord of the White Hart at Busted, said, the
prisoner came to his house on the 4th of September, with
thaw others, who asked him to take can of their great coats •
teoprisoner had none; saw them on the morning of the
of September, they went on towards Battle; the prisoner re-
tinned to his house at half past three o'clock on the follow.
og roomier, the Oth : thinks the coat which the prisoner now
has on; is one of the great coats be had the care of, bet cannot
swear to it.
Sherwood lives et the White liert saw a man, but
-cusses ewer it was the prisoner, mime about four tielotk, and
Maid for *atheist ; he inquired for the Landon coach; be
looked fatigued and dirty.
•----Thoessu saw the prisoner in custody on the former
'oecasiou ; overtook him on the coach; on accosting him the
.paieener said, " he coold not want bias."
Tama* Alderton sworn. !mid he found a seal which he Oro-
*aced, and tried a foot mark is the garden bnitlnd the yard,
which corresponded alth the prisoner's boot."'
Ber.ry Fennel said, he est op iviih the prisoner when in
VtlerodY the frac tiger ; he (the prisoner) hue a watch ana a seal
mblebv-esembied that now prodamegi,
The prisoner's conned, Mr. it om observed that vague
wwweee the circunistsects producediu evidence, he did stet
necessary to reply.
Mkt Lordship, in summing up, said that nothing had been
peeducad suflcient to convict tne prisoner; but hiehly corn-
'deeded thettlastinps Bankers for the spt with which they
l - Mantis,uid conduct d. the prosecution, as nothing I commercial
safe transfer of

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prisoner
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. ' twastatey was of greater Importance than the se t• ;rainier sot
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I i,pretperty. -
itiallwjiliortvood, aged fifteen, charged on suspicion of
. the 6th of Oztober. it the parish of St. George, to
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4:tiltiof iklaucrster, feloniously stolen a brown stallion,
the property of Robert Clemente, and sold the same in the
o parish af ht. Penns, Chlorgar-, to one Joseph Licht: • •
Ili', • The Jury found the prised.' entity. tart sentence of death
t ergartemedad, but hopes of mercy wog, held out, in coots-
-q ueerer the youth of the prisoner. W
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!I THIRD DAY, Dec. Dee. 24.
; okit, . • „ MURDER,
i . been, Mitchell *as indisted for
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wilful murder of a
T. Fenner, her son, aged abouto years, by
• fernier blobs gling• hire with a pioceer ferret,
'Xibilvidentivers a 19th inst.
Wiwi& gimlet , ation. The prisoner was
mildllbse.Oremel, inn Yr. TIJOIII'S and Mr. Awnstawa
b, . sisebr send° • the way of suggesting
i a "liiikOrsalShtile for her defence daring
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• . The rpm against time pri this—She had formerly
: • e been married to a min named Penner, by whom she had
foe, children, the youngest of whom wo the the •e
the teeth of her, husband. rid the children
'were removed! from Soles to the f his residence in
Wiltshire. Being deektps of going ce, tbe prisoner's
=ether, who lived nne Chid) ' to take her
:exert child anflopAer semoud cordiogly.—
r than Wisorelniii est o afterwards
eremodrillsiblud:ll9oooll., Met mother then,
' • itt •Otl Asa aims provided with noirille, determined to
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*end t eqt late her, suggest's tiratehellfras now the pro.
pet person to take Care a it. the prisoner
went to her mothuse bier*. about` th of August
last, to brieg away the child. In" ***log otthat day
. • she was sue with her cloiklait 'a OW' house, buts oon
-- -. _ . .;JafterwaditriaalaitAir*,...aedttir4if= time to this had
1 • never been . bit•last,i.sssoisaa
• osteneittlideit staritebigfrom I tillailyealted Taftsvell to
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v. . Chieletperrosed taller Wel that' Eg its Sleadoerbine, her
iitseellenwer attruSed %dew the 'aria 111111 hand of a
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•seldle Is ndlanh. She •
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• ' , .0,4,04 pratrid,,remainsof st Mid, apparently about two years
. *IX Gael toe arid; and the head werE*parated Iron
twig, .. body was so putrid that It was impossi
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i • . to- dtsd kite sex. According to the best jade
I lion whiCh could be formed, the body tai remained than
- • ,about six weeks or two Mintbs. 1 his discovery excited i
great sensation in the reighbourbood, and ft was sospecte
. that the reatlial were those of tire prisoner's child. No
ter frons;the.heed was found a piece of ferret tied in •
• noose, with a hard knot. The prisoner was taken up 01
1 snepiciou, and chargeduitis the murder ot her child. Sh d
w•is then advanced in pregnancy by het present husban
and from what was supposed to be a confession of th
/nattier sha was vointuitted for tri.l. Since her confinemel
sly had been deliveredof a child, and she now stood at tb
.I.ot w jai, her infant in her arms. 'the evidence had pri
t ruled the length of proving that ths‘reinains of a chili
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hull beef folod to 'hove mentiuned;lortien —Mr. Justic
Para called apon the Coansel for the prin.-emir* to procee
.11 • at onee.to that part of his use which Imputed gailt to th
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'I prisoner,
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Mr. LoNa then called a outitly nurse who had her
calledin to sit up with the prisoper during the first itigl
4 after she was apprehended, she being extremely ill, at
hourly expectieg her•accoachement. This woman's es
• dense was olfrred for the purpose of 'proving a salamis
*tribe porter siiiptfseeier shit aite••straolital the chihl,lb•
it appearing on the voir dire that she told the prison,
`that she mut tell tAc whale truth to the Magistrates, at
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