73. WILLIAM HILL proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 7th day of December 20 s. and 8 1/2 d. in monies numbered , the monies of John Liddington proceedingsvictim .

SUSANNAH LIDDINGTON < no role > sworn.

I am wife of John Liddington < no role > . The prisoner came on Sunday the 7th of December, a little after 6 o'clock, and ordered a pot of beer and change for a guinea; we keep the sign of King Henry the eighth, in Great St. Andrew's-street, Seven Dials , I gave the servant eighteen shillings, in single shillings, and a half crown piece, and two-pence half-penny, and she was to bring me the guinea: the servant came back for another pot of beer and a paper of tobacco, and she was to have the guinea when she returned: she came back crying and said the man was gone.

Did you see the prisoner in your house? - I did not.

MARY HAWKINS < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Mr. Liddington, I saw the prisoner when he came to order the beer, which was about a quarter after six, he ordered change for a guinea; I went and drew < no role > the beer, and came to the bar to my mistress, and asked her for the change, and she gave it me, and I went with the beer, and he was standing at the door; Says he, God bless me, you have been a long while coming with the beer, my master thinks you take no heed about his beer; he ordered the beer for Mr. Purser, in the same street; I said, I was very sorry, but I was getting the change, and so I held my hand open and he took the change out of it; he said, have you brought the change; I said, yes Sir, and he said give it me, and I held my hand open and he took it.

Did he give you the guinea? - No, he told me to go back directly, for another pot of beer and a paper of tobacco.

Did you ask him for the guinea? - I stopped at the door when he took the pot of beer and the change out of my hand, he said he had knocked at the door, and when I came back with the other pot of beer, he would give me the guinea; I went back with another pot of beer and a paper of tobacco, and when I went he had set the pot of beer down and was gone; I knocked at the door, but the gentlewoman of the house said he was not there.

Prisoner's Councel. Did you know him at all before? - Yes, he came into the kitchen to order the beer.

Had you ever seen him before? - No, I am sure it is the same man, I saw him at the door, and there was a lamp at the door.

Prisoner. I never was in the house in my life.

The prisoner called three witnesses to his character.

GUILTY .

To be confined to hard labor six months in the House of Correction .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .