159. ROBERT JONES proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 3d of December last, two pair of linen sheets, value 4 s. one cloth cloak, value 6 s. one coat, value 2 s. one great coat, value 6 s. two linen bed curtains, value 2 s. the property of John Jones proceedingsvictim .

The witnesses examined apart at the request of the prisoner.

ELEANOR JONES < no role > sworn.

I caught the prisoner in my room, I seized him by the collar, he gave me a violent push in my stomach, and pushed me on one side and run out, but stumbled over the step; I cried out stop thief! and he was stopped in about a hundred yards, and I saw the prisoner drop the things mentioned in the indictment, and other things.

John Eades < no role > assisted in seizing the prisoner, and was sure to the man.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I was coming down Long-Acre, it was very dark, and a man run by me, and they came and took me.

Prosecutor. The prisoner was never out of my sight.

GUILTY .

Transported for seven years .

Court to Prisoner. Your own conscience will tell you what I am informed of, that you have been here three times before.

Prisoner. I never was, my Lord.

Court. You have been in imprisonment and have broke prison, therefore make a particular memorandum, that it may be reported specially to the King, that he may be transported seven years to the coast of Africa, among the Blacks.

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