108. (L.) JAMES NEWLAND proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a silk handkerchief, value 10 d. the property of Hugh Randall proceedingsvictim , December 14 . ++

Hugh Randall < no role > . As I was going along Cheapside on the 14th of December, about twelve at noon, I felt something at my pocket; I turned round and caught the prisoner with his hand in my pocket, drawing out my handkerchief. I took hold of him by the collar, then he dropt the handkerchief, and I picked it up; I took him before my Lord-mayor who committed him. (The handkerchief produced and deposed to by the prosecutor.)

Prisoner's Defence.

Another boy took the handkerchief out and put it into my hand, I dropt it directly. I am a sailor . I have been a year in a collier, at 12 s. a month. I have not been ashore but a week.

Guilty . T .