752. JAMES FORBERSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 15th day of June last, six pounds weight of leaden pipe, value 10 d. belonging to Thomas Thompson proceedingsvictim , and affixed to his dwelling house, against the statute .

MARY THOMPSON < no role > sworn.

I am the wife of Thomas Thompson < no role > , No. 23, Hope-street, Spitalfields ; my husband lost a leaden pipe between the 14th and 15th of last month, which was on the premises; I saw it compared.

ROBERT RICHARDS < no role > sworn.

The house next me is open all night, on the 15th, I went up and saw a poor lad almost starved, which was the prisoner, and another young lad who escaped out of the window, and in a closet in that room I found this bit of pipe, the prisoner said he knew nothing of it, his father inhabits part of the house.

Court. Gentlemen, you cannot call this possession, he did not rent the room, it was common, and there was another lad there.

NOT GUILTY .

Court to Prisoner. You seem to be leading a very idle profligate life, you have now escaped through defect of evidence, there is great reason to suspect you are guilty: I only give you this admonition, alter your way of life, or else you may depend upon it you will come to the gallows at last.

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.