99. RICHARD COURT proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 6th of December last, one wicker hamper, value 6 d. two linen cloths value 6 d. a quantity of pork value 3 s. and a peck of apples, value 1 s. the property of John Smith proceedingsvictim .

JOHN SMITH < no role > sworn.

I am waggoner of the Hatfield waggon, I lost a hamper which was brought up by the waggon from Berkhamstead, to the Bell Inn Holborn , and left there; when the porter went to look for it, it was lost.

Do you remember who it was directed to? I do not.

Where did you leave it at the Bell? - In the yard, it was unloaded from the waggon I was not with the waggon that journey I only gave it to the waggoner in the country.

Court. How do you know you loaded that hamper in the waggon, as you do not know who it was directed to; was there only one hamper? - No, my Lord, and I put it in the waggon myself.

Court. How come you to recollect so particularly that there was only one hamper? - Because I loaded it myself.

Are you the owner of the waggon? Yes.

What is your man's name? - Robert Crane < no role > .

ROBERT CRANE < no role > sworn.

Did you come up with Smith's waggon from Berkhampstead? - Yes.

When? - On the 6th of December.

Did you lose any thing from the waggon that day? - Yes, that hamper that stands there was lost out of the inn yard; I saw it loaded on the waggon, and delivered it to the porter there out of the waggon, and he carried it up into the inn yard, his name is Joseph Williams < no role > This name instance is in set 1534. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . .

Did you bring up but one hamper? - No, Sir.

Do you know who it was directed to? Mr. Yarrol, Duke Street.

Did you see that direction on it when you was in the waggon? - Yes, Sir, and when I delivered it out.

You do not know what became of it afterward? - No.

JOSEPH WILLIAMS < no role > This name instance is in set 1534. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . sworn.

I am the porter at the Bell Inn Holborn.

Do you remember the last witness Crane delivering a hamper to you on the 6th of December? - Yes.

Who was it directed to? - Mr. Yarrol, Duke Street, St. James's.

What became of it? - I put it under the shed in the yard where we always put the things out of the waggon.

What became of it afterward? - I missed it about two hours after.

THOMAS ISAACS < no role > sworn.

On the 6th of December, about seven or a quarter after I met the prisoner in Turnmil Street with a hamper on his back, I asked him what he had there, he told me, what was that to me, it was Pork; I asked him where he got it, he said from the Borough; I said I thought he could not bring such a load as that from the Borough, I saw this direction upon it, I took the man into custody, and carried him before a magistrate; I opened the hamper to see the contents, and found a letter in it, the magistrate ordered me to go to this Mr. Yarrol's to see whether they had any property to come to town.

What became of the hamper itself at that time? - I have it in my custody.

Ever since these letters, were in the hamper and this direction upon it, (The letter and the direction handed up to the court) what account did the prisoner give of himself? - He said he had brought it from the Borough, that a man had given it to him.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I know nothing at all of the hamper, a man asked me to carry it for him, and said he would satisfy me for my trouble I was only come up from Gravesend on the Thursday night.

Court to Crana. Do you know the direction that was on that hamper, if you see it? - Yes.

Look at it? - This is the direction that was on it.

Do you know whose writing it is? - No.

You can read writing? - Yes.

Court to Isaacs. Is that the same direction you took off the hamper? - Yes; the Pork was ordered to be restored to the party, being a perishable commodity.

Prisoner. I have no witnesses.

GUILTY .

To be publickly whipped and confined to hard labour for 6 months in the house of correction .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.