710. ROBERT MOUNTAIN proceedingsdefend and ANTHONY MATTHEWS proceedingsdefend were indicted for feloniously stealing on the 23d day of May last, one wooden trunk covered with leather, value 2 s. one iron lock, value 2 d. eight sheets, value 8 s. six aprons, value 4 s. one handkerchief, value 1 d. one other handkerchief, value 4 d. one cap, value 1 d. one pistol, value 4 s. the property of James Poole proceedingsvictim .

BRIDGET POOLE < no role > sworn.

I hired the two prisoners to carry some things from Cock-hill, Ratcliff , to No. 15, in Farmer-street, Shadwell ; I do not know the day; I believe it was a month last Monday; they were to carry a trunk and two bags, and in one of the bags was a pistol; the other trunk had my linen. My husband had been six or seven voyages to the East Indies; they did not deliver the things, and in one of their breeches were found two old handkerchiefs, and an old cap.

DENNIS CRANEY < no role > sworn.

I apprehended Matthews at a public house in Ratcliff-highway, the 26th of May, and this cap, and these two handkerchiefs were in his breeches; I saw them taken from him; he said he bought them of an old-clothes-man, there was an old-clothes-man at the window at the time.

ESTHER FREEMAN < no role > sworn.

I packed up these things in a trunk for the prosecutrix.

HANNAH JOHNSON < no role > sworn.

I live at No. 15, in Farmer-street, the prisoners came and delivered two bags to me.

(The things deposed to.)

PRISONER MOUNTAIN's DEFENCE.

I know nothing of the trunk.

ANTHONY MATTHEWS < no role > , GUILTY .

Privately whipped .

ROBERT MOUNTAIN < no role > , GUILTY .

To be whipped , and imprisoned six months in the House of Correction .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.