213. JONAS ABRAHAMS proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 15441544. was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 20th of September , one tallow press and iron screw, value 30 s. the property of Thomas Barnes proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS BARNES < no role > sworn.

In the middle of September, near the 20th, to the best of my knowledge, I made no minute of the day, I have a shop out in the fields at Battle-bridge , and I found it broke open, and from there I missed several articles, as well as this screw, which belongs to a tallow press, I heard of it about a month since, being at Mr. Pellet's in St. John Street, I went to Mr. Pellet's and saw this screw, I found it to be my property which I had lost out of these building, I saw Mr. Pellet himself; his man is is here, Mr. Pellet said he had bought it.

MICHAEL WARD < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Mr. Pellet, in St. John Street, he is an Ironmonger, this screw which Mr. Barnes calls his property, I bought of Mr. Abrahams, with a quantity of iron. (The screw produced) it was a fortnight or three weeks before this Gentleman owned it, that I bought it, it lay at our shop to sell, I bought it as old iron in a quantity; Mr. Abrahams deal in old iron, and collects it all over the town, wherever he can, and gets his living that way as I understand; the prisoner brought this in a cart, he has dealt with my master three or four years, I bought it altogether at twelve pence a hundred, he has always dealt fair with us, there never was any thing claimed at our place before, I bought it of him as old iron, and looked upon it as such, there was no nut to it when I bought it.

(The screw deposed to.)

Mr. Garrow, Prisoner's Council. This screw without a nut is incompleat and strictly old iron? - Yes.

It came in an open way? - Yes.

If any body else had brought it, you would have bought it, equally the same? I certainly should.

Mr. Garrow. My Lord, I submit here is no evidence to put this man on his defence.

NOT GUILTY .

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