[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 13 Aug 1814 - Assize Intelligence

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Aug 1814   (p. 4, col. 1)

 

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. 

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DURHAM.—The Assizes commenced on Saturday. The following is the calendar of prisoners: 

 

John BURRELL, clerk to the postmaster of Durham, for embezzling upwards of £480, and also for stealing sundry bank notes—Peter
ALLAN, for horse-stealing—Ann CRAMPTON, of Barnard Castle, for maiming and disfiguring Robert JORDAN—John HALL, jun. for
horse-stealing—Jane WALKER, for stealing from a dwelling-house—Richard GRAY, for cutting off the tail of a cow—Eliz. GARDENER, for
stealing a silver watch and two silk handkerchiefs—Wm. OLIVER, for uttering a counterfeit 3s. piece, and having in his possession a
quantity of counterfeit coin and materials for coining. 

 

NORTHUMBERLAND.—The following are for trial:— 

 

In Newcastle Gaol.—J. HUTCHINSON, J. CRAWFORD, Rosay STEWART, Mary HASTY, James M'CREA, Mary HUNT, Catherine M'POIL, for colouring
base metal so as to resemble current coin—W. G. WHITFIELD, clerk to John DAVIDSON, Esq. for stealing 26 promissory notes of £5 each,
and one of £10—T. DAVIES, for uttering base money. In Morpeth Gaol.—Eleanor BARKER, for the murder of her bastard child—Margaret
RITCHIE, for picking a person's pocket of a £20 note and a £1 note, and Alex. ROSS, for receiving the same, knowing it to be
stolen—J. TURNBULL, for sheep-stealing—E. ROBSON and James SMILES, for breaking into arid stealing from a dwelling-house—Ellen
SMALLSHAW, for the murder of her bastard child—Richard DAVISON, for horse stealing—Thos. RITSON, for breaking into and stealing from
a dwelling-house to the value of £5—Ezekiel WOOD and Thos. SPENCER, for stealing goods from carriers' carts—John PHILIP, for
stealing a pig—and Jane PATTEN, for breaking into and stealing sundry articles from a dwelling-house. 

 

YORK.—In our last we gave the sentence of all the prisoners tried at this place. Before leaving, Mr. Justice BAILEY reprieved all
the prisoners under sentence of death, viz.—William OLIVER, John HARTLEY, and James LIVERSEDGE, for highway robberies; and Robert
HARTLEY, for stealing the communion plate out of the church at Seaton Ross.—The following is a short abstract of some of the most
interesting trials:— 

 

In the case of Mark and Mary YOUNG (for the wilful murder of a new-born male infant child, there was ground for suspicion of a more
horrible nature than even the crime laid in the indictment. It appeared in evidence that the prisoners resided at Thorp-Arch; and at
the request of Mark YOUNG, a surgeon came to visit his daughter, who, he said, had been just delivered by herself. On the medical
gentleman examining the child which was dead, and observing the mark of a ligature around its neck, the male prisoner said sharply,
"is any thing the matter with the neck?" The surgeon, unwilling for him to suppose he suspected any thing wrong, said no. Next day,
before the Coroner's Jury, the body was examined more particularly, when the general opinion was, that the child had died by
strangulation.—As there was a possibility of the child having died during the delivery, by the umbelical [sic] cord getting
entangled around its neck, the prisoners were acquitted. 

 

On the trial of Robert HARTLEY, for sacrilege, a singular instance of honesty occurred. An Israelite was examined respecting the
communion plate that had been stolen, and which he refused to buy, because, as he said, "it was too cheap," and he should make "too
large a profit by it." 

 

The trial of Wm. SMITH, for horse-stealing, excited in no small degree the risibility of the Court and Jury. The prisoner, a
mariner, on the 22d of July was seen mounted on a horse without saddle or bridle; the owner of the horse dispossessed him of his
prize; but walking about 200 yards further, and seeing a horse tethered in a field, he, in broad day-light, and without any
precautions, within sight of a young woman, who was milking in the adjoining field, loosed the horse, and throwing his jacket
thereon mounted him, and very deliberately rode away at the rate of about two miles an hour, having to ascend a hill, where he was
exposed to view for a mile. After travelling about six miles he accosted a person on the road, told him who he was, and where he was
going (to Malton); and on being interrogated how he became possessed of the animal he was so aukwardly steering, he stated that he
had borrowed it of an old man he did not know, who lived in a town the name of which he did not know; that he was to have it at the
first town he came to, and at the first public-house in the town, the village to which he referred was Duggleby; at which place (a
distance of about seven miles) he arrived about seven o'clock, and, where his story seemed so extraordinary, that he was taken into
custody. The horse was soon after claimed by the owner.—The Jury without hesitation acquitted the prisoner; and the Judge advised
him to be careful how he borrowed horses in future without leave of the owner. 

 

 

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