843. WILLIAM THOMPSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 1st of October , a printed cotton gown, value 5 s. the property of Ephraim Carter proceedingsvictim .

EPHRAIM CARTER < no role > sworn.

I keep the Horns at Shoreditch ; on the first of this month, the prisoner came into my house, about ten in the forenoon, with a bundle under his arm, and desired to have the bundle taken care of; all at once he was gone out of the house; he went up stair's into the two pair of stairs room, and there he took this gown, then he continuedtill two in the afternoon; he said, I have been in bed, and do not you like it; I said, if you have been there, you have been there to rob me, and he looked very large round; I had him searched, and the gown was found upon him.

SAMUEL HARPER < no role > sworn.

I searched the prisoner; in his breeches I found this gown, it has been in my possession ever since.

(Deposed to by Mr. Carter.)

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I just came into town at the time; when I went to this gentleman's house, and I was so intoxicated with spirituous liquors, I did not know where I was; I gave my bundle to the people of the house, and desired them to shew me up stairs to bed, which some of them did; when I got up, I came down stairs immediately; how I came by this property, I cannot tell; I was entirely intoxicated through the whole business; I came from Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire.

Court. What trade are you? - A hairdresser.

To Prosecutor. What is the gown worth? - About a guinea.

GUILTY .

To be privately whipped and imprisoned one month .

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