348. ELIZABETH COOKE proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a cloth great coat, value 3 s. the property of Henry Taylor proceedingsvictim , April 12th .

HENRY TAYLOR < no role > sworn.

On the 21st of April I delivered my coat to my porter, and it was put into a cart, out of which it was lost.

RICHARD EDMUNDS < no role > sworn.

I received Mr. Taylor's coat from his porter; it was put into my cart in an inn yard by the porter; I was present when he put it in; as I was sitting in the window, I saw the prisoner go out of the yard with something under his frock; I followed him; I laid hold of him, and asked him what he had got under his frock; and I took Mr. Taylor's coat from him, upon which he went down on his knees, and begged for mercy; Taylor said his name was in the inside of it, which we found to be fact.

[The coat was produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I came to London as a drover , and was allmost starving.

GUILTY . B .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.