John Dixon proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Edmund the King , was indicted for privately stealing a Handkerchief, value 1 s. from the Person of James Loan proceedingsvictim , the 18th of September last. The Prosecutor deposed, That as he and a Friend were going out of Lombard Street into George Yard , about Seven a Clock in the Evening, the Prisoner ran between him and his Friend, and he clapping his Hand on his Pocket missed his Handkerchief, and apprehending the Prisoner, he had one Handkerchief about his Neck, one in his Pocket, one under each Arm, and afterwards his own was found dropp'd on the Ground several Yards farther than he the Prosecutor had been. The Prisoner had nothing to say, but that he had bought the Handkerchiefs in Rag Fair, and was carrying them to be wash'd. The Jury found him guilty to the Value of 10 d. Transportation .