842. THOMAS WHITE proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1387. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . was indicted for stealing, on the 14th of August last, one wooden boat, called a wherry, value 10 l. and one pair of wooden sculls, value 5 s. the property of Cornelius Harrington proceedingsvictim .

CORNELIUS HARRINGTON < no role > sworn.

I am a waterman at Wapping Old Stairs , I have sculls; the number of my boat is 6694: I went over the water with a message on the 14th of August, and when I returned it was gone; I found it in the middle of the Thames, and the prisoner rowing away with her: the prisoner is no waterman; my name was in her.

DAVID HUDSON < no role > sworn.

I am a waterman and lighterman, I stopped the prisoner in the boat the 14th of August; I passed him, and I thought I knew the boat; seeing him handling the sculls not like a waterman, I rowed after him; he said, damn you, what have you to do with it, the man lent her to me; I took hold and made the boat fast to mine, and I pulled, and he tried to get on the cables of the ships, and I pulled him on shoe at Wapping Old Stairs. The prosecutor came and claimed the boat.

Prisoner. My witness is at sea.

GUILTY .

Transported for seven years .

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