The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

HUNTER, MAYOR.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE,

Taken in Short-hand

BY

JAMES DROVER BARNETT

AND

ALEXANDER BUCKLER,

Rolls Chambers, 89, Chancery Lane.

VOLUME XXXVI.

SESSION VII. TO SESSION XII.

LONDON:

GEORGE HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE.

WILLIAM TYLER, PRINTER, BOLT-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

1852.

THE

WHOLE PROCEEDINGS

On the Queen's Commission of the Peace,

OYER AND TERMINER, AND GAOL DELIVERY

FOR

The City of London,

AND GAOL DELIVERY FOR THE

COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND THE PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF ESSEX, KENT, AND SURREY, WITHIN THE JURISDICTION

OF THE

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,

Held on Monday, May 10th, 1852, and following Days.

Before the Right Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, LORD MAYOR of the City of London; Sir William Henry Maule, Knt., one of the Justices of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; Sir Thomas Joshua Platt, Knt., one of the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer;   Thomas Kelly, Esq.; Sir William Magnay, Bart.; and Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Aldermen of the said City: the Right Hon. James Archibald Stuart Wortley, Q.C., M.P., Recorder of the said City: Francis Graham Moon, Esq.; David Salomons, Esq.; Thomas Quested Finnis, Esq.; Sir Robert Walter Carden, Knt.; David Williams Wire, Esq.; and William Cubitt, Esq., M.P., Aldermen of the said City: Edward Bullock, Esq., Common Serjeant of the said City; and Russell Gurney, Esq., Q.C., Judge of the Sheriffs' Court: Her Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City, and Judges of the Central Criminal Court.

THOMAS COTTERELL, Esq.

RICHARD SWIFT, Esq.

Sheriffs.

JAMES JOSIAH MILLARD, Esq.

JOHN STEPHEN S. HOPWOOD, Esq.

Under-Sheriffs.

LIST OF JURORS.

First Jury.

  James Patteson

  Jacob Magnus

  George Gosling

  Henry John Moggeridge

  Nathaniel Nicholas

  Richard Morgan

  William Rosamon

  George Duck

  Henry Moore

  Osmond Maskell

  George Matthews

  Thomas Goodwin

Second Jury.

  James Davidson

  Alexander Munn

  Edward Dinmore

  John Arthur Penny

  William Mitchellhill

  Edward Morgan

  George Frost

  Michael Roots

  Joseph Daniels

  Jesse Mitchell

  James Mess

  Lucius Nelson

Third Jury.

  William Mayhew

  Walter Ford

  Thomas Robins

  James Oliver

  James Maltby

  Henry Miller

  Henry B. Maltby

  Michael Pike

  Benjamin Davies

  Henry Gwoter

  William Pointer

  George Dodwell

Fourth Jury.

  John Parlby

  Henry Ninham

  David Matthews

  Thomas Pilk

  Francis Knott

  William Gardner

  Richard Davies

  William M'Cloud

  Frederick Easton

  William Mead

  John Driver

  William Sutherland

Fifth Jury.

  William Edridge

  James Dale

  Robert Rouse

  Joseph Nixon

  John Watson

  Edwin Butler

  John Saxby Davis

  Richard Massey

  James West Gowland

  David Gibbons

  Robert Marnock

  John Park

Sixth Jury.

  David Davis

  John M'Dowall

  John Miller

  Henry John Collate

  James Green

  Joseph Maldon

  James Mason

  Robert Davis

  Charles Fox

  Edward Bright

  Robert Morris

  James Francis Masson

Seventh Jury.

  William Bellars

  Matthew Goddard

  Samuel Dixon

  Henry Francis Goblet

  Robert Armsby

  John James Marston

  John Fell

  Digory Reed

  Uriah Masey

  William Polton

  Richard Mason

  George William Mash

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

HUNTER, MAYOR. SEVENTH SESSION.

A star (*) denotes that prisoners have been previously in custody—two stars (**) that they have been more than once in custody—An obelisk (†) that they are known to be the associates of bad characters.

LONDON AND MIDDLESEX CASES.