John Daly was indicted for stealint , above 30/. (in gold,
silver, and bank paper) from the house of Mr. Georg:Richardson, St. Paul's, Shadwell. A button was found on the floor of the room where the robbery was committed; and a similar button was missed from the prisoner's jacket. A letter was found in his pocket bearing the signature of "Welsh," and addressed to an accomplice named Cooke ; and the purport of it was that he had robbed the prosecutor's shop, and had lost a button in the act. The prisoner, who made no defence, was found guilty—Death.
James Jones, a coachman, was found guilty of having stolen table- cloths, napkins, and other articles of value from the house of Mr. Lawrence Peel, in Park-street. The prisoner said that distress drove him to commit the crime ; and he threw himself on the mercy of the Court. Jose Maria Murillo, a Spaniard, was charged with stabbing Thomas Cooper, waiter at the Storey's Gate Coffeehouse, with intent to murder him. On the night of the 24th of March, the prisoner went into the coffeehouse, and asked for a glass of wine; which was refused, as he seemed to have had enough before. He then took a cake and ate ; and after some words, the landlady attempted to push hint out ; Cooper came to her assistance ; the prisontel
drew a knife and stabbed him two or three times in the face. In his defence, the prisoner said that he never touched the prosecutor. Colonel Valdez" General Torrijos, and other witnesses, proved that the prisoner had served under General Mina in the Constitutional Army in Spain, and that he had for a long time past been considered insane. He was supported by the fund raised for the relief of the Spanish Emigrants. He was in the habit of living in the fields for months, although he had a comfortable home. The Jury found him Not Guilty, on the presumption of insanity; and he was orderel to be detained during the King's pleasure.
Felix Meliot, a Frenchman, late assistant at Durham-house academy, Chelsea, was charged with having, stolen two shirts, the property of Mr. W. Dyke, another assistant in the same settee!. The prisoner took the shirts without the prosecutor's knowledge, and went to Dorchester to obtain another situation. It appeared, however, that the portmanteau in which the prisoner had packed up his things had been lent to Min by the prosecutor, and that mutual civilities and acts of friendship had passed between them. He left his address at Durham-house when he went away. The prisoner in his de. fence stated, that he had no intention of wronging, the prosecutor' with whore he had been living upon terms of intimacy. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
William Powell was convicted of having broken into a dwelling-house at Fulham, and stolen some bacon worth 40.s., aid ten sovereigns. Sentence-- Death.
John Butler was yesterday put upon his trial for the murder of Mr. Neale, The same witnesses were examined as upon the Coroner's inquest ; and of course only the same evidence could be given, which it is unnecessary to reca- pitulate. Dr. Brooks was examined, and gave it as his opinion that Mr. Neale had died of apoplexy. The.lury in consequence acquitted the prisoner of the murder ; but he was detained on the charge of robbery.
Esther II ibner the elder, Esther Hibner the younger, and Ann Robinson, were yesterday arraigned on the charge of having wilfully murdered Francis Colpitts, one of a number of pauper children, i who had been apprenticed to the elder Hibner, front St. Martin's workhouse. The child, it will be remem. bored, was proved on the Coroner's inquest to have been starved to death, besides being subjected to a great deal of other cruel treatment, at the hands of the elder prisoner, her daughter, and Robinson. The deceased and the other children frequently had but a slice of bread and some milk diluted with water for the day; and sometimes they got only a few potatoes—nine pounds of which were made to serve twelve persons. They sometimes satisfied the cravings of hunger from the filthy food supplied to a dog from a neigh- bouring tavern. Two surgeons said that the child had died from mortification in the feet and abscesses in the lungs, occasioned by the want of necessary food. Baron Garrow and Lord Tentertleit were upon the Bench. and gave tine pri- soirees the benefit of every favourable circumstance. The Jury deliberated for about an hour and ten minutes, when they found a verdict of Guilty against Esther Hibner the elder, and acquitted the other prisoners. The convict was ordered to be executed on Monday morning. She heard her sentence with a countenance perfectly unmoved, and retired from the bar with a light quick step. Esther Hibner the younger, and Ann Robinson, were detained to an- swer other indictments arising out of similar circumstances.
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