217, 218 Jacob Myers proceedingsdefend , and David Lazarus proceedingsdefend This name instance is in a workspace. , of St. Michael Cornhill , were indicted for stealing half a firkin of soap, value 8 s. and a firkin, value 2 d. the property of Bridget Brent proceedingsvictim , and Phineas Pateshall proceedingsvictim , and a trowel, value 4 d. the property of Phineas Pateshall < no role > , March 25 .

Phineas Pateshall < no role > . I am partner with Mrs. Brent. In the late fire I lost part of a firkin of soap; the trowel is my own.

Benjamin Dolphin < no role > . I am a constable of Aldgate Ward. On the 25th of March I stopped these two fellows with the soap about five in the morning; at first they said they found it, and afterwards they said they were hired to carry it. They were both walking together, but Myers had the soap; I did not much understand what Lazarus said, because he cannot speak English well.

George Wardley < no role > . My brother constable, Mr. Dolphin, and I took these two fellows with this soap; it has never been out of my custody. Lazarus can speak but very little English, and Myers said he found it in Cornhill; I said I believed they found it thereabout.

[A sheriff's officer said he was informed that Lazarus was dumb.]

Wardley. He can speak very well, for he said in English, that an Englishman gave it them.

Hermanus Wagg. I am a jeweller in Prescot-street. I have known Myers eight years; he lived with me two years as an errand-boy , and I have entrusted him with several things, and believe he is innocent, or he would not have carried it so far in a populous street. The other is quite a stranger, he has not been here above three weeks.

Q. What do you think their design was?

Wagg. Their design was to take it away as if they had found it, not as if they had stole it.

Acquitted .