Saturday 28 Aug 1819 (p. 2, col. 5 - p. 3, col. 5) Cumberland Assizes, 1819. CROWN COURT. [continued] SHEEP STEALING. HENRY SCOTT was put to the bar, charged with killing and stealing a sheep, in September last, the property of Joseph MOUNSEY, of Woolsty Hall, in this county. Mr. LAMB conducted the prosecution. Joseph MOUNSEY proved that he had the sheep on Parsonby Hill, and that one of them disappeared. Henry HODGSON was a lime burner at Parsonby limekiln. The prisoner worked there three days only in the beginning of September, and in going to his employment, passed through MOUNSEY's fields. One morning as they were going to work, the sheep came up to the hedge; SCOTT made a sudden stop and asked witness whose sheep they were; who said he thought they belonged to Joseph MOUNSEY. Prisoner replied-"What dost thou think if thee and me had one?-we can easily get one of them." Witness rejoined, "SCOTT, I'll have no concern with getting any of them." Prisoner said, "I'll bring my knife and steel, and I can soon butcher one-we can easily get one, and never a dog bark." Thomas ROUTLEDGE, an accomplice sworn. Baron WOOD. Mind you speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. Witness lives at Tallentire, and has known the prisoner more than a year, who resided about 4 miles from Parsonby Hill. About the 7th or 8th of September, witness went with SCOTT to steal a sheep. SCOTT proposed the matter to witness when he was in liquor; he said he had been travelling the road between Tallentire and Ponsonby, and had seen some good sheep belonging to Joe MOUNSEY. Prisoner urged him to go, observing that he himself had a wife and four children, and that his family were in need. Witness consented; and the next night, about eleven, they set off for Parsonby Hill, found the sheep, and drove them into a corner of the field. SCOTT caught one and tied its feet; he then carried it over the hedge into the next field, took out his knife, sharpened it on his steel, killed the sheep, skinned it, and gave the skin to witness. SCOTT then cut up the sheep and divided it between them; the entrails were carried to another field and put into a gutter, and they made the place of slaughter as clean as they could. Witness carried the skin home and pulled off the wool-that found in his house was a part of it. The prisoner here said that the witness had been apprehended for stealing wheat from Thomas PARKER. Mr. Baron WOOD.-He was indicted for it, but no bill was found. John SMITH searched SCOTT's house in May last, and found some butchering implements and some wool; he also found wool in ROUTLEDGE's house, but thinks it of a different kind-it had been pulled off the skin. John WILSON proved that the prisoner lived at Whitehaven about 2 or 3 years ago, where he sold meat in the market-has seen prisoner cut up meat and sell it. Joseph MOUNSEY recalled. The wool found in ROUTLEDGE's house is the same kind as his wool, and is marked with the same materials as the marks upon his sheep. The prisoner put in a paper, which his Lordship said it was of no use to read to the Jury. He called no witness.-GUILTY.-DEATH. [to be continued]