599. JOSEPH MORREL proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 2633. and WILLIAM CADY proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1347. were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 10th of May , one large washing copper kettle, value 10 s. the property of Elizabeth Fortuam proceedingsvictim .

The witnesses examined apart at the request of the prisoners.

The Prosecutrix deposed that she missed her copper the 10th of May, and saw it two hours afterwards.

JOHN RANDALL < no role > sworn.

I arose in the morning early, and found the prisoner Morrell with a bag on his shoulders, and a little further I saw that gentleman the prisoner Cady, with a bag on his shoulders, as soon as he observed us he directly wriggled the bag from his shoulders and pretended to go against the wall, and when he found we followed him, he run away, and I cried out stop thief! I and my son took Morrell, Mr. Lou and another took the other, and we conducted them to the cage belonging to the church; the bags that were on his shoulders I took off with one hand, and I collared him with the other, and the other gentleman took the bag that Cady dropped, we carried them before the Justice and examined the contents of the bags, there was a copper in each, in an old apron, the copper belonging to the prosecutrix was in the possession of the prisoner Morrell (The copper produced and deposed to) here is a piece at the bottom that is patched; after we had taken that gentleman to the watch-house, the beadle searched that young man, and took out a pair of stockings out of his pocket, a knife and pair of small spring steelyards, at the Justices the prisoner Morrell said he found them; he made no confession, but he had a pair of stockings on his legs that belonged to Mrs. Trimmer.

Mr. Chetwood Counsel for the Prisoner. How far was it that you saw him from this house of Mrs. Fortuam's? - I suppose 150 yards as nigh as I can guess.

Was not it half a mile? - No nor a quarter.

Was not he in the King's highway? - No, in no King's highway, he was in a field, he made no resistance.

To prosecutrix. Are you sure of the copper? - I am sure of it, I have lived in the place these ten years, I never was in this Court before.

Prisoner Morrell. I desire to know what time they were robbed? - I cannot tell.

Robert Ware < no role > and Samuel Lou < no role > deposed to the same effect.

PRISONER MORRELL's DEFENCE.

I was walking that morning, and I met the prisoner Cady by the workhouse in Whitechapel, walking for his health, I went with him, and going along the road we saw these things laying at the foot of Whitchapel Mount.

WILLIAM CADY < no role > This name instance is in set 1347. 's DEFENCE.

We found these bags, and he took one and I the other; I saw these four gentlemen come up, which I am sorry to put the stile upon, as I thought I took them to be the four thieves.

The prisoner Morrell called three witnesses to his character.

BOTH GUILTY Of stealing to the value of 10 d.

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN < no role > .

600. The said JOSEPH MORRELL < no role > This name instance is in set 2633. and WILLIAM CADY < no role > This name instance is in set 1347. were again indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 10th of May , one washing copper kettle, value 10 s. two pair of worsted stockings, value 1 s. and one check apron, value 2 s. the property of John Trimmer proceedingsvictim .

ELIZABETH TRIMMER < no role > sworn.

On the 10th of May I lost my washing copper, and the other things in the indictment, the prisoner Morrell had a pair of the stockings on, and the other prisoner had the other pair in his pocket.

(The stockings deposed to.)

JOHN RANDALL < no role > sworn.

This is the other copper that the other man had, which was on the back of Cady.

(The copper deposed to by Mrs. Trimmer.)

Mr. Chetwood. Is there any patch upon it? - Nothing of the kind.

Was that copper fixed in brick-work? - Yes.

Has it been since applied to that brickwork to see if it fitted? - No, it has been at the Justices ever since.

What did the prisoners say? - Nothing particular.

BOTH GUILTY .

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron PERRYN < no role > .