SURREY SESSIONS.—R. Taylor, "a desperate-looking fellow," was convicted of having
stolen a bill-hook from a person in Camberwell. He had formerly been convicted of stealing; and was now ordered to be transported for life.
William Huntingdon and his wife were indicted for having stolen the clothes of a person unknown. It appeared by the evidence of the beadle of the parish of St. Mary, Newington, that a poor man fell down in a fit on Walworth-common, and died. The body was taken to the workhouse; and the prisoners, by representing that the deceased was their brother-in-law, got possession of the body, and the clothes were given with it as customary, though not asked for. The prisoners sold the body for dissection. The Chairman said that the evidence did not support the charge in the indictment, and he directed the prisoners to be discharged.
Mr. Tidmarsh, a respectable elderly man, was tried for a violent assault upon a lady. The parties lived in the same house together; and on the day the assault was committed the prisoner and his wife' quarrelled. Mrs.. Tid- marsh was heard to cry out "murder," and the prosecutrix went to the parlour-door to ascertain the matter. The prisoner then knocked her down, kicked her, and fractured one of her ribs. He was found guilty, and fined 40/. to the King.
Another assault was punished with a fine of 5/. An elderly man, guilty of an indecent assault upon a girl under eleven years °lege, was sentenced to be imprisoned for one year.
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