[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 13 Mar 1824 - Cumberland Spring Assizes (30)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Mar 1824   (p. 1, col. 5 - p. 4, col. 5, and p. 1, col. 4)

 

CUMBERLAND SPRING ASSIZES. 

 

CROWN CALENDAR. 

 

[continued] 

 

STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE. 

 

WILLIAM HARRISON, 22, charged with feloniously stealing and carrying away a suit of clothes and a cotton neck-cloth, the property of
John WILSON. 

 

Mr. COURTENAY conducted the prosecution. He called 

 

John WILSON.-On the 24th Jan. last, I lodged at James DAND's, on a Friday night. When I went to work on Saturday morning I left my
coat, waistcoat, and trowsers in my bed-room; also a hat, a shirt, and a pocket handkerchief; they were all in a bundle, tied up in
a neckcloth. At eight on Sunday morning when I returned, my clothes had disappeared. From information received, I went on the road
to Manchester in search of Wm. HARRISON, the prisoner. I obtained the assistance of a constable at Penrith; and when I next saw
prisoner he was in that constable's custody. He had my waistcoat on. The prisoner made a confession without any promise; and we went
where he led, and found them at the house of one CASS. 

 

Cross-examined by Mr. ALDERSON.-This was on a Sunday, about three o'clock in the afternoon. Prisoner had lived at Mr. DAND's before
I came there; he said nothing about having borrowed them for the day. 

 

Edward SCOTT.-I am a constable at Penrith. In consequence of an application made to me, I went and found him at Eamont Bridge, and
told him that a young man had followed him from Carlisle, on suspicion of his having stolen his clothes. He said he had the young
man's waistcoat on; and I asked him where the rest of the clothes was. He said he had them in a bundle at Penrith at CASS's. I asked
Mrs. CASS for his bundle; I opened it in the prisoner's presence, and the prosecutor challenged the clothes. The bundle was tied up
with a neckcloth or a sort of handkerchief. I found a handkerchief in his pocket, which, from being knotted, appeared to have been
tied up as a bundle. 

 

Cross-examined.-Prisoner immediately owned that he had the waistcoat, and soon after gave up the bundle. It was on a Sunday-he and
his mother were drinking tea together. 

 

Witness produced the clothes, and WILSON identified them. 

 

The prisoner said, when called upon for his defence, that he lived at James DAND's about a week before; and having drank a little
too much liquor as he was about to set off for Manchester, he took away the bundle by mistake, instead of one of his own which he
had in the house. 

 

James DAND said the prisoner had lodged and worked with him for fourteen months immediately preceding this affair; and he gave him
an excellent character. 

 

Guilty-but on account of his late master's testimony, earnestly recommended to mercy.-Imprisonment and hard labour for four calendar
months in Whitehaven house of correction. 

 

WILLIAM SEWELL, aged 12, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two towels from the house of Joseph HALL, innkeeper, Fisher-street,
Carlisle, on the 18th Feb. last. It appeared that he went into Mr. HALL's under pretence of seeking for his father, but in reality
to commit the theft.-His Lordship in passing sentence upon him of 2 months imprisonment in Cockermouth house of correction, observed
that it was probable he was only an instrument in the hands of others; but if he committed the theft from his own mere vicious
inclination, his case was still more lamentable. He was admonished to take warning in time. 

 

JOHN SURGEON, 18, also pleaded guilty to an indictment for stealing, on the 14th of Feb. 5 bushels of wheat, value 30s., and 6
sacks, value 6s., the property of Mr. John BELL of Carlton, near Carlisle.-Six months imprisonment and hard labour in the house of
correction at Cockermouth. 

 

WM. ALLISON pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing three half-crowns from the shop of John ATKINSON, of Carlisle, though advised by
the Judge to stand his trial.-Three months' imprisonment in the house of correction at Cockermouth. 

 

Jackson TODD, Ann HARRISON, and George IRVING, were discharged on Monday by proclamation. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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