299, 300. WILLIAM RUSSELL proceedingsdefend and MARY LEE proceedingsdefend were indicted for stealing sixty-three guineas, ten half guineas, four crowns, forty half crowns, two French crowns, value nine shillings, two French half crowns, value four shillings and six-pence, a Spanish dollar, value four shillings and six pence, and 10 l. in money numbered, the property of Christopher Gabert proceedingsvictim in his dwelling house , March the 24th .

"The only evidence to affect the prisoners

"was a confession deposed to be made

"by Mary Lee < no role > to one of the justices of the

"peace in a private room, which the witness

"who apprehended the prisoners swore he

"was in the room and heard: but another

"witness swore that was totally false, for that

"he only carried a candle into the room and

"came out immediately.

BOTH NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE.