The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

LONDON.
OLD BAILEY INTELLIGENCE.

Dennis Shebare was indicted last week at the Old Bailey for a street robbery on Alexander Shaw.

The prosecutor, a sailor, deposed, that on the 14th of this month, between the hours of twelve and one in the morning, he (in company with James Scott, a witness) was suddenly knocked down, and robbed of his watch, by the prisoner, in Plough-Court, Ratcliff Highway.

James Scott, the witness, a Scotch sailor, also gave a very humorous account, in a very grave way, of the robbery. - Being a Sailor, he said that the prisoner bore down upon the prosecutor, and gave him a broad-side in Plough Court, and then heered off. That the prosecutor tipped all hands when he was laid keel upwards. That the prisoner ran right before the wind, to whom he gave chase; but that the prisoner tacked to the starboard, and then he (the witness) hauled his wind. That another frigate coming up, ran along side of the prisoner, on whom he poured his whole broad-side, and made him surrender; but that he (Scott) was entitled to his prize money, never having lost sight of the prisoner during the chase.

Scott's evidence created a deal of diversion in Court, nor could the Judges refrain their risible faculties at his terra-marine description. As he was confirmed by another witness, in a more intelligible detail, but who still added, the prosecutor was half seas over, the prisoner was convicted, but recommended to mercy by the jury.