612, 613. SAMUEL PEARCE proceedingsdefend and MICH. SWIFT proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1993. were indicted for stealing two kits of salmon, value 10 s. the property of Thomas Butcher proceedingsvictim , June 12th

THOMAS BUTCHER < no role > sworn.

I lost two kits of salmon out of a warehouse under Dice Quay ; I saw it in the warehouse on the 11th of June, at about seven or eight in the evening; I found it in the watch-house the next morning; I was called out of bed, I am sure it was mine, because there was a mark upon it; I missed three kits, two were found in their custody; and one afterwards in a cart.

LUKE HONOR < no role > sworn.

On the 12th of June as Honeyball and I were coming down St. Dunstan's hill, we met the prisoner Swift with the salmon on his head; I went across the way and asked him where he got it; he said from a man on the Keys; I asked him to go and show me the man; when we came to Thames-street, he threw the salmon off his head upon me; one kit cut my eye; the other stunned me. Honeyball pursued him, and I recovered myself and went round the gateway and stopped him and carried him to the watch-house; one of the kits broke in the fall; from that mark I know it: we did not see Pearce at the time.

( John Honeyball < no role > confirmed the evidence of Luke Honor < no role > ; and added, that Pearce said before the justice, commit us both for we were both concerned together.)

SWIFT's DEFENCE.

A man called me and asked me if I wanted a job; he had three of kits of salmon in his cart; in Thames-street he put two on my head; Honor ran against me and knocked them off my head, and then said, I threw them at him.

PEARCE's DEFENCE.

I know nothing of it.

PEARCE < no role > NOT GUILTY .

SWIFT GUILTY N. 3 years .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.