364. JAMES DOOLEY proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a silver watch, value 4 l. a steel watch chain, value two shillings, a leather purse, value one shilling, a pair of linen pockets, value two-pence, three guineas, and five shillings in money numbered, the property of Sarah Crofts proceedingsvictim , widow , in the dwelling house of John Forster < no role > , March the 26th .

"In the evidence it appeared that the prosecutrix

"lay at a public house with a man

"she picked up; that she lost her pockets,

"containing the things mentioned in the indictment:

"that she at first charged a servant

"in the house with the fact; that afterwards

"the things were advertised and a

"reward offered; and they were brought to

"the prosecutrix by a man who said he found

"them; but that upon being taken before

"the justice, he said he had them of the prisoner; " and that he directed him to say he

"found them."

NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.