585. (M.) Thomas Miller proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a piece of green tammy, value 20 s. the property of John Arkley proceedingsvictim , August 26 . ++

John Arkley < no role > . I am a dyer , and live in Old-street. On the 24th of August the prisoner was brought to my house by five of my men in the morning, with a piece of green tammy my property, taken from the drying-ground belonging to me in Islington fields; I had had a suspicion of the prisoner before; on the 23d of August I ordered my men to look out, to see if they could see any thing put in the same place where some had been secreted before; they came and informed me there was a piece put there; I ordered five of them to go and watch it, and see who took it; the next morning the 24th, they came and told me the prisoner was the person that came and took it away; the prisoner worked for me.

John Williams < no role > . On the 23d of August I was in the field; the prisoner came and fetched the piece away from out of a hog-stie, where it lay hid; we pursued and took him, and found in his bag a piece of green tammy.

Prisoner's defence.

I saw it lie there, I thought it belonged to my master; I took it, and thought of taking it to my master again.

He called William Butler < no role > , Thomas Odham < no role > , Caleb Gibson < no role > , Nicholas Walker < no role > , John Francis < no role > , Tho Bates < no role > , William Taylor < no role > , and - Gibbs, who gave him a good character.

Guilty . T .