Saturday 28 Aug 1819 (p. 2, col. 5 – p. 3, col. 5) Cumberland Assizes, 1819. [continued] CROWN COURT. CATTLE STEALING. JOHN TELFORD, charged with feloniously stealing eight heifers the property of John NIXON, Wm. ROUTLEDGE, John HETHERINGTON, and Jos. RIDLEY, from a field called Cockletrigg, on the farm of Wintershields, in the parish of Lanercost. Mr. WILLIAMS and Mr. COURTENAY were counsel on the part of the prosecution, and Mr. AGLIONBY for the prisoner. Wm. KYLE knows the prisoner—he lived at Bailey Common, about two or three miles from Wintershields; saw the prisoner on Thursday or Friday before Stagshawbank fair, on Highstone Common road, half way between prisoner's house and Wintershields—"he had nothing at a' wid him but his sel and a cwoley dog." Robert GOODFELLOW is herd on Wintershields farm, where cattle are agisted. On Friday, July 2, between 10 and 11 o'clock, he saw the cattle were all right; there were 121 head in Cockletrigg, including five of NIXON's, one of ROUTLEDGE's, one of HETHERINGTON's, and one of RIDLEY's: all the cattle were marked with a slit in the left ear; ROUTLEDGE's heifer had a hole in the left ear; the fences were in a tolerable state of repair; cattle could not easily get out if they were inclined—they never wished to get out. Thomas GRAHAM is toll-keeper at the Denton Bar, about four miles beyond Brampton, on the Newcastle road: remembers a man passing the gate before five o'clock, A. M. on the 3rd July—he had eight cattle. Witness took no further notice than observing the cattle to be a good sample. Does not know the prisoner—can't say he was the man. Joseph BROWN lives three miles on the east side of Denton Bar; has known the prisoner several years: remembers seeing him about a quarter before six on Saturday morning, 3rd July last; he had eight cattle with him; witness counted them, and said to prisoner, "thou has got a few good beasts, John"—prisoner replied 'yes, middling;' and asked if 'a vast of cattle were gone to this market?' (Stagshawbank)—witness said, the most he had seen going were on the other side of the hedge. The cattle appeared warm. James HILTON is a farmer near Alston: was at Stagshawbank fair, on Monday the 5th July last; bought eight heifers of a man; believes the prisoner the same; they were all he had; witness paid £57 8s., for them: the same cattle are now in a field in the vicinity of Carlisle; he shewed them to a person called POTTS yesterday; they are all marked with a slit on the top of the left ear. Thomas POTTS is under herdsman to R. GOODFELLOW. Yesterday HILTON shewed him eight cattle; they were all slit (one had a hole) in the left ear; witness examined them, and knows them to be the same; he had charge of them for the two last summers; he saw them on the Thursday; they were taken away on the next day. Witness went with Mr. WANNOP, and Mr. WANNOP's servant, to apprehend the prisoner; when they first saw him they asked him "if he had seen any cattle, for they had lost some?"—He answered, 'not any.' WANNOP then said, "thou wast at Stagshaw, John, did'nt thou see any?"—prisoner said 'no.' WANNOP told prisoner that he had heard at Carlisle that day that he had got them. Prisoner said, 'me got them! where could I get them? I had no beast there of any kind.' WANNOP said, "thou wilt have to go to Carlisle with us." Prisoner said, 'I'll soon that.' He then came off with them. They went to a magistrate, and after they came away, witness asked prisoner if any person helped him out of the field with the cattle? Prisoner said no one; they were over easy to get out; he wished they had been worse; it would have been better for him that day. He told witness that he took them on Friday night, by Askerton and New Mills, to Stagshawbank, where he sold them for £57, 4s., to three men, who came from near Alston. Never said to prisoner, "You had better tell out." The Rev. Dr. LOWRY, by whom the prisoner was examined and committed, stated, that when before him, the prisoner confessed he had taken the cattle and sold them at Stagshawbank, and expressed a willingness to make up the loss to the owner. No inducement was held out to cause this confession. Charles PHILLIPS, Wm. GRAHAM, Geo. GRAHAM, Thos. GILLESPIE, W. DAVIDSON, P. GRAHAM, and Henry VARTY, gave the prisoner a good character—he has a wife and four children.———GUILTY.—DEATH. [to be continued]