773. JOHN KENNEDY proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing two spring locks, value 2 s. and five steel smoothing files, value 1 s. the property of John Furnace proceedingsvictim , October 4th .

JOHN FURNACE < no role > sworn.

I keep a shop in Moorfields : upon the 4th of October I locked the things up in the shop that are mentioned in the indictment; I found the lock picked next morning, and the things gone.

JOSHUA LOWRY < no role > sworn.

About a fortnight ago the prisoner brought the things mentioned in the indictment to me with some old iron, and offered them for sale; he asked 2 s. I gave him 18 d. for them.

[They were produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I found them in Moorfields.

GUILTY of stealing to the value of ten-pence . W .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.