19. THOMAS MILLER proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing eighty sheep skins, dressed in oil, value 5 l. the property of Zachariah Putt proceedingsvictim , November 17th .

ZACHARIAH PUTT < no role > sworn.

I am a leather-seller in Newgate-street . I know nothing of the leather being taken; I can only speak to the property.

ANNE CLARK < no role > sworn.

The prisoner rented an apartment of me. I saw him bring in a bundle of things, on the 17th of November, between eight and nine at night. I cannot tell what was in the bundle; he put it in the lower part of my house.

Was that apartment entirely his, or did any body lodge with him? - Entirely his and his wife's.

JOHN WILLIAMS < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman. On the 18th of November, in the morning, about half after four, a man came to me, and informed me that a man had brought into his house a looking-glass, and afterwards, as he believed, some linen, because it was white; John Negus < no role > and I went about eight in the morning, and thrust the door open. The prisoner immediately jumped out of the window; the sheep skins were lying on the bed; the prisoner was secured, and we took him and the skins in a coach to Justice Wilmot's; the skins were afterwards delivered into the hands of Negus, who has had them ever since I believe .

Is this the house Anne Clark < no role > spoke of? - It is.

From the prisoner to Anne Clark < no role > . Whether I took the room? - The woman that passed for his wife took the room; they lived together as man and wife, and paid me very honestly .

JOHN NEGUS < no role > sworn.

I was present at the searching of the house where Miller lived; we secured the sheep skins; I have had the care of them ever since they were fully committed, before that, they were locked up in a house next door to Mr. Justice Wilmot's office. I saw them locked up; I examined the things, and know they are the same. I found in the prisoner's apartment these tools (producing two iron crows and another instrument); they are things for wrenching open places, and a thing to put in the key holes of a door to turn the key, and push it out in order to put in their own key, and open the door.

(The skins were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)

PHILIP MATSON < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman; when I went into the room at Mrs. Clark's; the first man I saw was Plunket. I took him by the collar, and secured him; he made no resistance at all; Miller was in his shirt, with his collar and risbands unbuttoned; he had the window shutter in his hand; he put down the shutter, and with both his hands knocked out the window and jumped out. The skins were lying on the bed, and the bed clothes turned over them.

JAMES DOWSON < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman. I saw the skins lie on the bed .

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I came into the room; I came backwards and forwards to this woman; I never paid Clark < no role > any rent at all. I know nothing of the woman, and Mrs. Clark knows nothing of me.

Matson. He did not escape when he jumped out; of the window; we took him directly as he jumped out; there were thirty skins bundled up; the rest were loose upon the bed.

GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]