[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 28 Aug 1824 - Cumberland Summer Assizes (12)

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Saturday 28 Aug 1824   (p. 2, col. 3 - p. 4, col. 5)
 
CUMBERLAND SUMMER ASSIZES, 1824. 
 
CROWN BAR: MR. JUSTICE BAYLEY. 
 
[continued] 
 
BURGLARY. 
 
WM. CHATTERTON, 19, and ARTHUR KELLY, 18-the former charged with
burglariously and feloniously entering the dwelling-house and shop of Robert
LITTLE, draper, Longtown, on the night of the 10th May, and stealing
therefrom various articles, value 40s.: the latter with having at the same
time burglariously stolen a silk handkerchief, also the property of Mr.
LITTLE. 
 
The prisoners pleaded not guilty with a confidential air. Both are Irishmen,
we believe. Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. COURTENAY conducted the prosecution. The
prisoners had no counsel. 
 
Robert LITTLE.-I live at Longtown, parish of Arthuret, and keep a draper's
shop there, my shop being part of the dwelling-house. On the 10th May I
examined my shop, betwen [sic] 11 and 12, before I went to bed, and left it
quite secure. About two o'clock, I was disturbed by a person who called, and
in consequence of information, examined my shop; the door was half open and
broken, apparently by the coulter of a plough then lying on the floor. Great
deal of goods were lying without the door-the till was there also; other
drawers had been opened, and one was standing open. The goods outside the
door consisted of three yards of blue cloth, three or four pieces of stuff,
and a silk and cotton shawl-all tied together in a handkerchief, which was
not mine. (Witness produced it.) As soon as I had taken possession of the
goods, I went to CURRY (the person by whom I was called) who had CHATTERTON
in custody, having detected him in coming out of the shop, when he threw
away a bundle of gloves, my property, taken form [sic] the premises. I now
produce them: the paper in which they are has my private mark. Besides this,
I lost all the stock of silk handkerchiefs I had-from one to six or seven in
a piece; I also lost rolls of ribbons, but how many I cannot tell. 
 
Prisoners declined asking any questions. 
 
Andrew LORAINE.-I am shopman in Mr. LITTLE's service. On the night of the
robbery, I fastened up the shop doors and windows, and left all safe. 
 
Wm. CURRIE.-About two in the morning of the 11th of May, I was passing Mr.
LITTLE's shop, and observed something lying at the door. 
 
By the Court.-I think the morning had begun to break-it was lightish (sun
rose five minutes past four.) 
 
Witness continued.-I saw something lying at the door, like cloth, tied round
with a handkerchief-the door was half open. I heard a stir in the shop, and
went round the corner to alarm Mr. LITTLE: before I got to the shop again, I
met with the prisoner at the corner, having a parcel in his hand. I took
hold of him, asked him where he got the parcel, and he immediately dropped
it behind. On asking him why he went into the shop, he said he was badly
advised. "Let me go," he said, "or else I shall be hanged." I held the
parcel till I delivered it to Mr. LITTLE. 
 
CHATTERTON asked CURRIE many questions, but the answers did him no service.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY hinted to him that he was doing himself no good-so he
desisted. 
 
George DEWARS.-I was near Longtown, on the afternoon of Monday the 10th May.
I saw the prisoners at that time within a quarter of a mile of Longtown,
towards Langholm. sitting under a hedge, a woman with them. 
 
KELLY denied that he was ever in Longtown till brought there as a prisoner. 
 
Witness repeated that he was quite certain-he passed betwixt them on a
foot-path; he saw CHATTERTON again on Tuesday morning, and KELLY at night. 
 
To a question by CHATTERTON how he knew him, witness said he saw him walk,
and then observed that he was lame. 
 
Elizabeth WRIGHT.-I live at Dick's-tree, on the Langholm road from Longtown.
The two prisoners came into my house on the afternoon of Monday the 10th; a
woman came in first, then KELLY, next CHATTERTON. KELLY sat down; CHATTERTON
stood near him; the former lighted a pipe and gave it to the latter. I
observed them so as to know them again. KELLY had a handkerchief round his
neck-a coloured one, but I cannot say what colours. 
 
CHATTERTON impudently asked Mrs. WRIGHT if she was not in bed with a man
when he was in her house:-because, he said, he was only in one house that
day, and there he saw a woman in bed with a man. The object of this was
evident. 
 
Mr. Justice BAYLEY.-Prisoner, it matters not to the inquiry whether she was
in bed with a man or not. 
 
Mrs. WRIGHT, however, indignantly negatived the insinuation. She said it was
not a time to be in bed; and her husband was at his work not a quarter of a
mile from the house. 
 
KELLY wished to be informed how she knew him? "By the visage of your face"
was the answer. He denied that he was ever in Longtown before he was taken
there as a prisoner. 
 
 
[to be continued] 
 
 
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