221. JOHN WATSON proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1421. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 30th of December last, one silver table spoon, value 10 s. the property of Charles Logie proceedingsvictim , Esquire ; and one shirt, value 4 s. and one cotton handkerchief, value 1 s. the property of William Skelton proceedingsvictim .

MARY SKELTON < no role > sworn.

I have not seen the prisoner a great many years, and he came to see me on the Thursday before New Year's Day; I live at No. 14, Fludyer-street , with Mr. Charles Logie < no role > , it was about one, or a little after, I asked him into the kitchen, he was a little while in the kitchen, and when he went away, I missed the spoon, it was a table spoon, with my master's crest.

Do you know what the crest is? - I believe it is a hand and a branch in it; I missed also a shirt and a handkerchief, the property of my husband; I knew the prisoner, he did live with Sir Charles Gray < no role > ; I had all the things in the kitchen that day.

THOMAS HYNES < no role > sworn.

I am a pawn-broker, I live in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster; between two and three, on the 30th of December, the prisoner first offered me a table spoon, and asked me seven shillings for it; I asked him whose it was; he said it was his own; I asked him if it was his crest, and he said, no, but it was his own spoon, and the shirt and handkerchief, which he wanted ten shillings upon, I lent him half a guinea, having no silver.

(The things produced and deposed to.

Prisoner. I never took any of them there.

The prisoner called one witness who gave him a very good character.

GUILTY .

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before the Lord Chief Baron.