Middlesex Sessions, Tuesd...
The Times, 1824-06-23T00:00:00

Tltomas Henry Polard, a respectable-looling young man, was. indicted for having obtained, under falae and fraudulenut pretences,. from Colonel Edward Corry, one 101. note, and one other note for 301_ IUr. Amo LrHus stated the case. Colonel Edward Corry sworn.-I live at No. 43, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, and am a Brigadier-General in the army. On tbe 14th of January I met thedefendant at his own house, 36, Howland. street1 which was elegantly furnished. He kept hist horses, and livea in the most costly style. Defendant said he bad 78 quarter of oats, which he had purchased at 23s. per quarter, for whieb he had paid ready money; the whole amounted to 891, 14s. He then begged I woulid purchase them of him. T consented, and handed to him one bank-note for 301. and one for 101., telling him I would pay him the balance on the following day. He also said tbat the oats were lying at the warehouses of llessrs. George Kean and son, of Horselydown. On the following day one Ricbard Knight'and myself went to the defendat's bouxe. I paid the ba- lance, whith made up the 891. 14s. The reason of my deliveripg My two notes was, to make cood my purchase; und detbndamt tTe liveret to me an erder by which I was to get the oats. I did not get the oats, because they had not been pai4 for by deferdant. I told the defendant on the following day. Ie appeared much agi- tated, and said he would go to the raarket, and settle the matter 's that the oats might be delivered, for there must have been aon mistake. I never got the oats. After this the defendant proposed to give me a warrant of attornev on his furniture, but which I never. got; and soon after he removed from Howland-itreet. The next r heard of him was, thathe was in Norwich gaol. I obined a war- . rant from Bow-street, and lodged against nnin, upon wbiel theb*.. fendant was brought to town-, Here Afr. ALLMY, for the prisoner, took an objection to 4ne wording of the indictment; which the Court overruled. I\?r. ALLiY.-Do you not jmow the defendant has been declated, a bankrupt, and.obtained a certificate from all his. creditors but yourself ? Mr. ADor.PHUS objcted tothe witness answeringbut thcCourt overruled the odjection. The witness raid hecertainly had heard that the rreditors halstoL slgned his certificate. WVitness cortinued-the lagistrates at Bow. street snufTred the defendant to go at large for a sceondand third ex. aminatiom, and he attended. Mlr. Sarmniel Hobley, a prisoner tor debt in Whitecrosa4treet-pri_ son, deposedtliat he attended theorder as a witness and heard the defendabt sas he would give up all hehad intheworld, ob6ervinghe bad sold to the prosecutor grain that he never had to sell dIr. Sedgwick, partner in the finn of Oiles and Co., corn-factorr. -_In January, 1823. Pollard boughtoats, buthad not paid for them., The oats w.uld certainly not be delivered Wiilhoutbeingpaid. Cross-examined by Mlr. ALr.zv.'-Tihe oatrs would have bcezs.4e. lirered up to thetlneof countermanding it. for. ALLEY agin took An objection to the name set out in the- indictment, ";James (hues," which, in fact, ought to beJameae Sharp G'des. The COUT held this fatal to the indictment. The p oiwner was arraigned upon a second count, for having obh tssned ioma ColonelI E. Corny, one 501. note, gad one other -note for 401. Mlr. AxoLmrus opened the case to the jury. M1r. Corrv said, on the 13th of January he bought 60 sacks offlour of the dtefedant, and paid him with $a 501. and a 401. note, when,' in.fat, no sach t1ourhadlien bDozght~ly hian of a Air. Oilbezt. He', gave the order- as in the former cate. MIr. ALLT 5gn took an objection in the samefonuias the last, antd the Coart rlditobfataL . - SEXTEXCWOSX TI}E OFFrCERs OFr THE. COUXTt- COtURT. The Court was crowded to exce the whole of the day to hear the sentenee of the Court passed on Foster, Horx,Bladkey, ard IlAalliwell, who were convicted on Thutaday last of a most outi: r?cas as&vdt on MI.ss S. Cowelli 'After the eTose of the pioceed- 1:1P 'h2 were phaced at ttie bar, when' Foster addressed the 'Court, a!d sted, " I declare before Ged, 3entlemeen, I am isnnocent of thse crme I amn cbacged with. The eYidence of Aliss UZowell and her SeTlt S al:ogetter filse. XhViAtever punishment I may suffer, I d siuher t unrjutlj." The Chairman said he bad nothing then to oIEth e~ f'cts of the case unlss they could be contradicted. D the ta al,hicli lasted 12 hours, all the talent had been em- sdcatteon paid toit, that could be by defendants' counsel. Ye Cvcry 7ins had been taken by thek on the paet of their Cd-tn, tlie jury, almost without, hesitation, found them. guilty. 3r the facts of the case went,;he perfectly agreedl with them in *~fl1un. A tDOst dissseenble duty then devolved upon him in paxssing ta entefe af the Court, which, ;utnough composed of so many ,,~~trarec who were present at the; trial, there was no difference of among tlhemn, though they did not give their judgmnent with- out reconsldering the matter. F'or hi part, he could only judge of tbe'Peby the evidence brought forward, and if the prosecutrix had P-__ured lteselfshe rould have to answer to God for it. There ap- -t he tinthe defendants'contluct a motiveof revenge for some- thizg that had happened. Foster'\ being taken to Queen-square i rPe-dto be the motive. The mopey wbith they claimed was-not dFe f m tCM srosecutrix and the Wearrant was not in her name. "-hs of tlXe s. .. e the 9th of llarcli, and yet from that time to the tet b , ay, no vroccedungs weve taken under it, nit until after Fos- P bntaken to Queensqure; nnd bound over to keep the &ch conduct could not be borne in this country. The de- 'dz ~rtanly ingenious, althouirh there were parts of it he con- 5t^oed. t1~he counsel for the defensants had cailed thte procecutril ,hugtbatwasbaseAnd abominable, had clargedher with going ,t h trnaame, and saId theyhad eidence to ecntradictall the facts sztated, although not one single witness thev afterwards e 0 eantradicted anv part of her. statement. lie wvould not go' cse, the nauseous detaiLs of their conduct towards her, knowing as 'they did at thie time of the assault that the prosecutrix had been for Sae time ill, and cunfiurd to her bed-that her mother was out, iiid -he was letftunprotected. ie cansidered their conduct most olit- s bU& He then proceeded to pass the sentence of the Court, which m that Foster be imprisoned six months in the House of Correc- to*, and paya fineof o001.- that H'orn be imprlsoned in the same p.ceesix months, and the two other !defendants four months each. Ce respectable persons qhook hahds with Foster on his leaving .le COur-, who expressed his detennination to indict the prosecutrix 5f ite Coutrt of King's Bench for perjury. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, TrESDAY, JUNE 22.