[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 13 Jan 1816 - City Sessions

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Jan 1816   (p. 2, col. 5)

 

CITY SESSIONS. 

 

On Monday last, the Quarter Sessions for the City of Carlisle, and its Liberties, were holden at the Town Hall, before the
Worshipful Sir J. D. A. GILPIN, Mayor,-Thomas BLAMIRE, Esq. and the Rev. Thomas LOWRY, D. D. Aldermen. 

 

William JOHNSON was put to the bar, charged with breaking into the shop of Mr. BONNELL, druggist, in English-street, on Christmas
day last, and stealing thereout three cash notes, some silver and copper coin, the particulars of which were detailed in our Paper
of the 30th December. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and the Court, in consequence of his youth (18 years of age) and other
circumstances, sentenced him to only six months imprisonment, and to be publicly whipped from the goal [sic] to the Scotch Gates, on
the market day preceding the expiration of the time. The prosecutor, Mr. BONNELL, humanely threw out of the indictment the capital
part of the crime, and Mr. LOWRY in pressing for punishment only prayed for that species of infliction which would tend to deter
other depraved youths from following the same course. 

 

Alexander GARDNER, a weaver, of Donald's Close, was next put to the bar, charged with having on the fourth of October last, broken
into the warehouse of Mr. STUBBS, cotton manufacturer, situate in the parish of St. Cuthbert's, and taking thence several pieces of
Gingham, and two webs. Mr. PEARSON conducted the prosecution, and in his opening address to the Jury, entered into a detail of the
circumstances of the case, with suitable comments. 

 

James RUSSELL, in the employ of Mr. STUBBS deposed, that on the 3rd of October, the prisoner, and a dark looking man * came to Mr.
STUBBS's warehouse, situate near Mr. PATTINSON's brewery, and GARDNER asked him to let him have a Camperdown chain, (thin check)
which was denied. In retiring, they lingered at the door of the warehouse, as if reconnoitring the place. The next morning when he
went to the warehouse, he discovered the premises had been broken into through a casement which was forced open, and that 21 cuts of
Ginghams and two chains had been stolen. 

 

Eleanor LEWIS, was an apprentice to GARDNER, in October last, to learn the trade of weaving. On the night of the 3rd of October, she
slept in GARDNER's room with another apprentice (Margaret LYNCH). In the dead of night, or early in the morning, being awake, she
saw GARDNER enter the room, get a match, which he kindled at the fire, and lighted a lamp. As soon as he had done so, he left the
room with the burning lamp. 

 

Ann M'CANN lived in the same court, on the ground floor with her mother. At three o'clock on the morning of the 4th of October,
seeing a light shining into the window, and two men pass, she got out of bed, and saw GARDNER with rather a tall man in company,
enter his shop, which was only a few yards off right opposite. GARDNER appeared to have something bulky with him-they remained in
the shop a short time and then left it, locking the door, and extinguishing the light. 

 

Eleanor LEWIS and Margaret LYNCH both deposed, that when they went to their work in the morning as usual, they saw a chain on the
top of GARDNER's loom which they were sure was not in the shop the night preceding, at the time they finished work. When the alarm
spread of the robbery of Mr. STUBBS's warehouse, this chain disappeared. 

 

By other evidence, it appeared, that a chain was found several days after by the side of the Caldew, and subsequently sent to Mr.
STUBBS. The chain was produced in Court, and the girls beforementioned, thought it to be the same they had seen on the loom. It was
also clearly proved to be the property of Mr. STUBBS, by the person who warped it. 

 

Mr. LOWRY, for the prisoner, contended that nothing positive against him had been made out, as none of the witnesses would swear
that the chain found on the banks of the river, was the same they saw in GARDNER's shop. Mr. Wm. DONALD gave the prisoner a good
character as it respected his knowledge of him as a weaver. The Jury instantly pronounced the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to 12 months' imprisonment, and to be placed in the stocks on a market day, previous to the expiration of that time. 

 

Archibald TAGGART was next put to the bar, charged with being concerned in the same robbery, some of the stolen Ginghams having been
found in his coal hole, the key of which, the prisoner kept himself. A weaver in the employ of Mr. STUBBS was enabled to swear
positively to one piece of Gingham, in consequence of a peculiar error in the stripe which he made in weaving. Nothing further than
this could be proved, and the Jury finding the prisoner not guilty, he was discharged. TAGGART is an old ill-looking man, and a very
notorious character. 

 

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* This person, it appears, is named SHAKEY, a notorious character which at that time infested Dumfries and Carlisle. He was pursued
by the police of Carlisle, but effected his escape. 

 

 

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