Ann Tailor proceedingsdefend , and Mary Hill proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Brides , were indicted for privately stealing 15 s. from the Person of John Owen proceedingsvictim , the 27th of December last. The Prosecutor depos'd, That having been at Clare Market with a Friend, he was coming home between one and two of the Clock, the Prisoners met him about Fleet Ditch , and ask'd him to give them a Pot of Drink, which he refused, but one of them said she stand for her Brother, and desir'd him to sit down by them on the Bench, which he did, and he several Times perceived Ann Tailor's Hand about his Pocket, and when he was going away he missed his Money, and was sure he had it as he safe upon the Bench. The Prisoners pleaded, that the Prosecutor was in the Company of two other Women, before he came to them, and own'd that they had taken his Money. The Evidence not appearing to the Satisfaction of the Jury, they acquitted them.