605. JOHN LANGFORD proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 3d day of July , one linen shirt, value 2 s. a cloth waistcoat, value 1 s. a pair of worsted stockings, value 1 s. one scythe, value 5 s. and a linen handkerchief, value 6 d. the property of James Ireland proceedingsvictim .

JAMES IRELAND < no role > sworn.

I am a labourer at Whittendon, in Gloucestershire; I lost the things mentioned in the indictment, at the Red-lion in Stanmore; I came up to make the best of my time to work; I gave the things to the young mistress of the Inn, and bade her take proper care of them; her name is Susannah Wells < no role > ; she is not here; I found the things upon the prisoner last Sunday was se'night; he stripped off the handkerchief and waistcoat, and said they were mine, and he would not carry them any further; he did not tell me how he came by them; I never saw the prisoner before I lost the things.

JOHN NEWLAND < no role > .

What age are you, my boy? - About fourteen.

Do you know the nature of an oath, what will become of you in the other world if you swear falsely? - I shall go to hell.

JOHN NEWLAND < no role > sworn.

Who is your father? - William Newland < no role > This name instance is in set 1364. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . ; I live at the Red-lion at Stanmore; the prisoner came to me and asked me for the things that were the other man's, and I gave them to him; I gave him a bundle, I cannot tell what was in it, and I gave him a scythe, he said, he was going to hay making, they were both going together, and he told my mistress there was no work for him, and he came for the bundle and the scythe; I saw the prosecutor deliver these things to Susannah Wells < no role > .

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

The prosecutor was a countryman of mine; we were at work both together, we had been drinking, and I made more free than I should have done, because he was a countryman of my own; I should not have done so with any body else; I went to get the things to give him.

GUILTY .

To be publickly whipped an hundred yards at Stanmore .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.