514. WILLIAM MATTHEWS proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a wooden box, value 2 s. five glass bottles, value 6 d. and four yards and an half of silk, value 3 s. the property of Richard Whiting proceedingsvictim , October 12th .

THOMAS PRICE < no role > sworn.

I am a hackney-coachman. While I was upon the stand near Fetter-lane , about seven in the evening on the 12th of October, there was a stage-coach stopped opposite me, the coachman got down to let out some passengers; while the coach stopped, I saw the prisoner get upon the hind wheel, and look into the basket, at the back of the coach. I am sure the prisoner is the man. Then he got down and went to the other side of the coach, as if to see if all was clear, then he went round again, and got up and took a box out of the basket; I immediately jumped off my box, upon which the prisoner dropped the box and ran away; I pursued him and brought him back; I called Walker to my assistance, for the prisoner behaved with violence; he d - d and swore at me, and threatened me; I put him into the coach, and brought him and the box to the New Inn, in the Old Bailey.

From the Prisoner. Did not you say before the justice, that I threw the box towards your head? - Yes, he did so.

RICHARD WALKER < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Richard Whiting < no role > , who is the proprietor of the stage-coach ; I pursued when an alarm was given that a box was stolen. I assisted the last witness in securing the prisoner. I know the box, which is produced in court, was in the basket when the coach stopped; the box and its contents were in my master's care.

Price. The box produced is the same box which I saw the prisoner take out of the coach.

WILLIAM MARTIN < no role > sworn.

I am a constable. I was sent for about eight in the evening to the New Inn in the Old Bailey. The box was there produced and the prisoner; these are the goods (producing them.)

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I had been to carry my dirty linen to wash to my sister's; I had not been five minutes out of her house before this man laid hold of me, and said I took the box. I know nothing of it.

(The prisoner called two witnesses, one of whom had known five, and the other twelve years, who both gave him a good character.)

Catherine Hall. The prisoner is my brother. He left me at seven o'clock; he had not been gone out three quarters of an hour before I heard he was taken up.

GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]