212. JOHN CALDER proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing several pieces of timber , the property of Thomas Mutter proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS MUTTER < no role > sworn.

About January last, I had a suspicion of the prisoner, and in his lodging I saw several timbers, but none that I could swear to, but in the cellar I found two pieces which I can positively swear to; the prisoner worked very well, and I had a good opinion of him down to the time of the robbery, so good an opinion that I should not have believed any of the men.

JOHN HUST < no role > sworn.

I know the two pieces of timber.

THOMAS TURPIN < no role > sworn.

I know the two pieces of timber, they were found in the prisoner's lodging.

PRISONER.

I leave my defence to my Council.

The prisoner called five witnesses who gave him a good character, and two of them said he had a good deal of timber by him when he left business, and chests full of old hinges, and locks, and shutters, and stoves and such things.

GUILTY .

To be fined 1 s. and confined to hard labour six months in the house of correction .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.