143. (L.) Peter Graham proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing six silk and cotton handkerchiefs, value 12 s. the property of Robert Bulcock proceedingsvictim , Feb. 6 . ++

Richard Downer < no role > . I am a haberdasher of hats. The prosecutor, Mr. Bulcock, is a haberdasher . I live opposite to him in Bishopsgate-street . On the 6th of February, just about six in the evening, I was informed the prisoner was at Mr. Bullock's window, attempting to cut a pane of glass with a diamond. He had been at our window several times trying to cut it. I went out at our back door, and crossed the way to him. I laid hold of his collar, and saw he had the end of a piece of handkerchiefs, and had got it out at a hole through the glass, about five inches. A person that lives with the prosecutor came out, and we took the prisoner into the house. We found the diamond afterwards upon a boy that was with him.

John Hopley < no role > . I live with Mr. Bulcock. I found a pane of glass broke, and this piece of handkerchiefs, with one end, about six inches, drawn through. (Produced and sworn to.) The glass was whole in the morning.

The prisoner being detected before he had compleated the felony, by getting the piece into his possession, he was acquitted .