975. MATTHEW DAILEY proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 1st of October , one man's saddle, value 20 s. the property of Thomas Merring proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS ALLEN < no role > sworn.

I saw the prisoner take the saddle from the door, I ran after him and brought him back, I called to him to put it up again.

Court. You might as well have prevented him from taking of it. I did not know he would take it till he did.

Prisoner. A man employed me to carry it, and I told them, and they would not stop him.

GUILTY .

To be imprisoned one month in Newgate .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Lord LOUGHBOROUGH.