Surrey Sessions, Tuesday,...
The Times, 1824-10-27T00:00:00

Jane Baker was indicted for feloniously stealing 15 silvcr spoons, and other articles, value 301., the property of Mr. James Gates. IElizabeth Gates deposed, that she is the wlfc of the prosecutor, and that theprisonerat the bar was in her employ as servant in the month of July last, and continued so until the 8th of Augukt when she asked permission to go out to visit a dying relation. The prisoner went accordingly, and did not return tolier situation again. Witness on the following day discovered that she had been plundered of a consi- derable quantitv of plte, andgave information of therobberyat Union- hail, when a few days afterwards she was apprehended on Waterlio- bridge, in company with her former mistress ; and, on being Ques- tioned as to the property, she stated, that she had become acquanted with a gentleman, who asked the lan of 21., which she told him she had not in herpossession; upon which the gentleman asked if there war, notplatin the house which she could give hin, wrhen she took him up stairs and delivercd the property to him, which sheafterwards pledged at different pawnbrokers. Witness identi. fiea the property produced. John Andrew Simpson, shopman to Mrs. AMorris, pawnbroker, Long-acre, deposed that the prisoner came to his mistress's shop on the 18th of August, and pledged several articles of plate now7 pro- duced, in the name of Mary Hurmphries, Several other pawnbrokers deposed to the same effect. Edward 11iff, constable, deposed, that hc apprehended the pri. soner on the 23d of August, on a charge of robbery, when she con- fessed where the property was pledged, and that she was acttated by a man who promised her marriage to commit the crime. The prisener made no defence, and the jury returned a verdict of GuUty. She was sentenced by the Court to 14 years' transportation. JoseClP Pitt, a respectzble-looking man, was indicted for feloni. ously intermarrying with Sarah Elizabeth Meadows, his former wife being alive. Mr.TUEssasGER addressed the Court on behalf of the prosecution at considerable length, in support of which he called the following witnesses:- Joseph Wallace, carrier, residing at Birminghamr depoged, that hewas present at a marriage-ceremony between the prisoner andAnn Richards, on the 7th of March, 1808. IVitness yesterday saw the wife, and the certificate now produced witness compared with the register book of the parish church at Birmingham. Witness could not say whether the marriage was solemnized by licence or bans. Sarah Elizabeth Meadows deposed, that she is 20 years ofage, and was married at the parish church at Greenwich to the prisoner, en tte 5th of January last. The prisoner, during the time they lived to- gether, behaved exceedingly kind. Peter Mleadows, brother to the last writnexs, depzsed being present at the marriage of his sister with the prisoner. Mr. JEXMY1TT, on the part of the prisoner, contended at some length, that no evidenc was adduced as to the first marriage, as it was necessary to prove whether the marriage was solemnized by li. cance or bans. The CJHA{MmAN having summed up, the jury, without hesita- tion, returned theprisener gnliWy and he was sentenced to stix months' imprisonment at Brixten, and there to be kept to hard labour. SURREY SESSIONS, TURCDAY, OCT. 26.