392. (M.) Thomas Brooks proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing one silver punch ladle, val. 9 s. the property of William Harper proceedingsvictim , Sept. 2 ++.

William Harper < no role > . I keep a publick house in the parish of Kensington : last Sunday we miss'd a silver punch ladle.

Q. When had you seen it last?

Harper. I had not seen it for a week before: the socket of the ladle, was found upon the prisoner by Ratcliff Littler < no role > , and deliver'd to me. He was taken before justice Fielding, and there he own'd he took it out of my house in a drunken frolick in my hearing.

Ratcliff Littler. I am a comrade in the same regiment with the prisoner. On the 3d of Sept. I and the prisoner were together; he said his master had lost a punch ladle, and said he talk'd of going to the cunning man, and he suspects me: I said if he goes to the cunning devil, I'll go with him. We went to drink, he pull'd out some money, and with it the socket of this ladle; I kept that, and took him before justice Fielding, and then went for his landlord, (he looks at it, and says this is the bit I took from him.) He own'd he sold the other part for 9 s. and that he took it out of his landlord's cupboard.

The prisoner had nothing to say for himself.

Guilty .

[Transportation. See summary.]