Winter Home Circuit.
The Times, 1824-12-04T00:00:00

.55 tllztan Jones and George }Zeaver were indicted for burglariou ly breaking andi entering the dwellingzhouses of John Haines, at Her- tingtordburv, in the night time of the 9Mh of June last, and stcaling therein eash, bank-notes, and money securities to the amaunt of 1,8681. 13Y. lid., thc property of the Right Hon. Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering Cowper Barl Cowper. It will be recollected that at the last Snmmer Assizes for this county, three rnen named Davih, Harris, and Green, were convicted as parties to the robbery above-rmentioned. Since then it hal been discovered, through the active exertions of Mr. T. Nicholson, the Under Sheriff, that Green and Harris were not actually concerned in the robbery, and in conseqnence of some doubt entertained as to the Case of Davis, the awful sentence of the law as to bimn was respited until the 3:1 of Janjuary next. The present priioners were now put upon their trial charged witis being two of the gang of eigh t persons concerned in thedesperate robbery in question. The case excited con- siderableinterest, and during the trial the Court was crowded to excess. Ilr. BOLLAND (with wihom was Mr. DOWLING) stated the case for the prosecution. The circumetances under which the robbery was effected were fully detailed on the last trial, and the principal interest in the cse arose from the cvidence adlduced to implicate the men charged by the present indictmnent. Benjamin Jacobs, an accomplice, was called.-4e stated that he was a baker by trade, and had resided at hlampton WVick. For sonic time previous to the robbery he had been in the habit of frequenting a public-house, known by the sign of the Horse Shoe and tVlseat. shleaf, in Mllelior-strect, Bertnondscy, where he met Davis (now un- der sentence of death), and tlse prisoners Jones and Weaver. On Lhe9 th of June lie met the prisoners Weaver anl Jones, and five other perso"s at this house, when it was agreed that they shoul(d comn- mit the robbery in questioni. Two of the mcen set out early in the aiternoon to walk, leaving the rest to follow in two carts. About two or three hoture after those two were gone, Jones, Weaver, and wit- nessset out in his (witaess's) cart, and took the road by Sonsthlgate, and on arriving at the sixteen mile-stone, they found the other five tcen waiting for them with anoLher cart. Four then got into each cart, and proceeding on to a laLue near .4lr. Haines's house, thev stopped, and fatstening the horses to two trees, they went oil to Colc green. After surveying the house in every direction, a ladder was procured and placed against a first floor winrlov. The prisoner Jones went up first, and broke a hole in the window and opened it. He then came down. andl told the rest to take off their shoes. A candle was then lighied in a dark lantern bv mHeans of a phosphorus. box. Jones then ascended, got in at the bindow, and was followed by witness, WVeaver, and bour others, leaving the eighth ioan to watch below. Ile thetn detailed the circunmstances under which the robbery was committed, as described by Air. and tIrs. Haines and their son. Being disturbed as already nention,ed, they retreated, and in their return they had a desperate scuffle With three faring men. The prisoner %Vcavcr lost his hat, and a pistol was also left be. hinid. Thev then returned to the carts, four getting into each, and drove o1f as tsat as they could fbr London, but br a different route from that they had come. In their way they liad to pass a turnpike, which was locked. They aroused the toll-collector, who demanded eightpence toll for thc two carts. The men its tne first cart gave hin a shilling, anl both carts pushed on wvithout waiting for the change. When they reached London, they separated, but all met again, with the exception of otie of the party, at the Horse Shoe and Whieataheaf in Bcrmnondsey, for thc purpose of dividing the plunder. They went into a room up stairs, whiere a man named Dudlfield came to them for the purpose of purchasing the baHn- notes. The whole amount of the eash antdl bank-notes was aboutt 1,0061. Dudficld, after a good deal of bargaining, agreed to give 7501. for the totes. Witniess went along wish Dudheld to his house, for thei money. He received but 3501. then, Dudfield promising t, bring the remainder in about an hour and a half to the public- house, but he never canse, and witness believed that the remainder of the money was not paid. Mr. JESsO'P. who conducted the defence, cross-examnined this witness at considerable length, to show the infamy of his character. He bad beeni in two or three gaols, aud lad once suffered six months' inprisanment fbr felony. He expected to save his own neck by thIe evidence he gave against the prisaners. The learned counsel ,iow- ever, could not shake the consitency of his storv. This witness said he knew Green and Hlarris, who were convicted at the last assizes;. but he positively stid theywerenot roncervied intherobbery. To confirtii souse parts of the ascompl'ce's evidence., tihe followvinhg witnesses were called Janc Watson, whose husband kept the Hotse-Sboc and WVheat. Sheaf (but wlho is since dead), proved that the two prisoners. Jacobs. Davis, and fitur otier tlen, met at her huisband's house in the after- noon of the 0th of Junc, ansidrank together. They had all quitted the house about seven in the esetting, These n(en had been in the habit oflrequenting the houise before. Witen she got up next utorning, about eight o'clock, she found that seveni of them were in an upstairs room of the house. She .saw a strange iata. leave tte room in which they were, and come down stairs. This itan shc had never seen before. She bad seen bites since in Horsenionger-lane gaol, and believed his name to be Dtidfield, as site had been sub-c- quetitly informed, Tlte nen nhad afterwards beef-steaks or multtot- c.hops tor breakfast. Her husband had had an iron crow.bar in his skittle-ground ever since they had come to the liouse-namely, fbr abotit six tuonthis. She liad seen the crow-bar in the skittde-groutd on the 8th, but missed it on the 10th of June, and had never seen it since. Looking at the crow-bar whicii had been picked up on Mr. Haines's premises on the morning of tite lOt1 , she verily believed it to le that which ha(l belonged to her Iusband. It was cxactly s- milar in every respect. Williamn Badd, a toll-gate keeper, proved that about two o'clock on the morning of the 10th of June, he was rotsed to open thc gate for two carts. which appeared to come fronm the d irection of llettitg- fordbtrr. tIe unlocked the gate, and the miien in the first cart asked what was the toll. He answered 8dL for the two carts. H e received a shilling. and both carts ittimediately drove on at a rapid rate, in a direction iatvardis London, without waiting for thc change. Thierc were bat four -men it the two carts, that liC observed. (The accomplice lIad sai(l that tio or three men had got down. when they came to the gate, and walited through the wicket. An- other was at the bottom of one of the carts. This was the case for the prosecution.) The prisoners beino caUed upon for their defence, merely said that thev wouldileave their case it the hantis of their counsel. No witnesses were called on thetr behalf. Alr. Baron GAnitow then sunnmmed up the Ease to the Jury in the most claberateanul able manner. Teie Jury deliberated a ftw minuLtes, and found both prisoners Guilty. M{r. paxoin GG.Attow immedinately passed seatence of death. in a most impressive mnner, and conjurea the prisondrs to mauke the most of the sherttime left them on this side the grave to meet their CEreator. Thc law tnust take its course in a case. attended with so many drcumetences of Lggravat on: . .t a.s er e.kedef culpritb eppeare4jiRhol1y 'unmoved in thr>'solemnu lt s udertoo thr Jneshadexpressed a w/ish in gao1 to pleul ,guilty.-Thle assizes enddat- .'r clock._ WINTER HOME CIRCUIT. BT,,kTFnRn ft-, q