238. EPHRAIM EPHRAIMS proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1547. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . was indicted for stealing ten muslin handkerchiefs, value thirty shillings, a linen gown, value ten shillings, two stuff gowns, value twenty shillings, five yards of linen cloth, value four shillings, a stuff petticoat, value eight shillings, and six linen aprons, value three shillings , the property of Edward Downing proceedingsvictim , January 31st .

EDWARD DOWNING < no role > sworn.

I am a waggoner ; as I was driving my waggon by White-gate-alley , I lost a trunk and bundle, which was tied to it, out of my waggon; a person called to me and informed me of it: this is the trunk and bundle (producing it).

WILLIAM DAPLING < no role > sworn.

I saw the prisoner take the trunk and bundle from a boy or man in the waggon; there is a ladder behind the waggon, it rather lodged there; the prisoner snatched it from behind the waggon, as he took it, it fell and he took it up; I immediately laid hold of him as he was going off with it.

WALTER PROSSER < no role > This name instance is in set 4474. sworn.

The trunk was delivered to me; I have had it ever since; it is now in the state in which I received it.

[The contents of the bundle and trunk, which were the things mentioned in the indictment, were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

It fell out of the waggon, and I picked it up.

The prisoner called a witness, who said he heard a noise; that indeed he did not see the trunk drop; but saw the prisoner take it up.

GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[Branding. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]