365. THOMAS FARMER proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 2645. was indicted for stealing a deal box, value one shilling, six pounds weight of sulphur, value two shillings and six-pence, two pounds weight of diapente, value sixteen-pence, a pound weight of liquorice, value eight-pence, a pound weight of elecampane powder, value eight-pence, a pound weight of horse spice, value eight-pence, four pounds weight of antimony, value two shillings, a pound weight of anniseed powder, value nine-pence, six pounds weight of resin, value eighteen-pence, six pounds weight of allum, value two shillings, two pounds weight of turmerick powder, value four shillings, a pound weight of fenugreeks, value eight-pence, four ounces of jalap, value eighteen-pence, a pounds weight of surel fennel seed, value six-pence, a pound weight of coriander seeds, value six-pence, a pound weight of anniseeds, value eight-pence, a pound weight of verdigreese, value three shillings, a pound weight of copperas, value three-pence, a pound weight of mellilot plaister, value sixteen-pence, four ounces of sublimate, value two shillings, half an ounce of ipecacuana, half a pound of euphorbium, value four shillings, six ounces of Spanish flies, value four shillings and six-pence, four ounces of red precipitate, value two shillings, a pound weight of Barbadoes aloes, value two shillings and six-pence, six ounces of succotrine aloes, value two shillings and three-pence, half an ounce of scammony powder, value one shilling, half an ounce of colocynth, value threepence, four papers of large pill boxes, value two shillings and eight-pence, three pounds weight of Epsom salts, value fifteen-pence, a pound of brimstone, value six-pence, a pound of liver of antimony, value eighteen-pence, a pound of white hellebore root, value sixteen-pence, and six ounces of powdered bark; value five shillings, the property of John Harrison < no role > , April the 10th .

JOHN HARRISON proceedingsvictim sworn.

The waggon is the property of my father; these things were in a box which was taken from behind the waggon on the 10th of April; I was not there at the time of the delivery.

JOHN CROCKETT < no role > sworn.

I am waggoner to Mr. Harrison: I received a box on the 10th of April to carry to Wendable, at the Green Man, Oxford-road; I put it in the waggon, it was taken from the waggon within half a mile of the place; I was driving along the road, three or four follows came up; one of them came to me and discoursed about my horses; just after that a man came and told me my waggon was robbed, I stopped; I saw a man turn up a lane with a box on his head; I pursued him, he threw it off his shoulder into the ditch; I did not take the man directly; I am sure the box I took out of the ditch was the box I put into the waggon; there was a direction upon the box that I knew it by; it was directed to John Gibbs < no role > , Wendable; about a quarter of an hour after that the man was taken, about two o'clock in the day: I have no doubt about the man.

GEORGE CODEROY < no role > sworn.

I am a butcher; I live in Newport-market: I was coming along the road; I saw three men take a box from the tail of the waggon; I saw the prisoner take it up the lane; he laid it in the ditch: I pursued him till he was taken.

Prisoner. I took it out of the ditch; I did not take it from the waggon.

WILLIAM ATTON < no role > sworn.

I keep the George-inn at Acton: Coderoy came up and said a man had just passed that had robbed a waggon; I saw the man going up the field; I rode up the lane and took him in the field adjoining.

To HARRISON. What was in the box? - Groceries or drugs.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I saw three or four men beside the waggon, and the box lying in the ditch; I took it up upon my shoulder, and going up the lane with it I heard somebody call stop thief: I put the box down and ran.

GUILTY .

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[No punishment. See summary.]