518. (M.) WILLIAM JENKINS proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a hundred pound and one quarter of a pound weight of lead, value 8 s. the property of Elizabeth lady Dowager Cathcart proceedingsvictim Richard Baynes proceedingsvictim , Esq ; Abraham Tucker proceedingsvictim , Esq ; Bridget Ash proceedingsvictim , spinster , and Mary Pearson proceedingsvictim , widow , May 24th . +

Henry Colledge < no role > . This lead that is produced belonged to my cistern, which is for the common use of the houses belonging to Lady Dowager Cathcart, Richard Baynes < no role > , Esq; Abraham Tucker < no role > , Esq; Bridget Ash < no role > , and Mary Pearson < no role > ; on the 24th of May the lead was brought into my house, I compared it with the cistern and found it belonged to it.

John Negus < no role > . On the 24th of May about ten o'clock I found the prisoner with the lead on his shoulders; I took him and the lead to the watch-house; he readily went to the watch-house.

William West < no role > confirmed the evidence of the former witness.

Negus. It is the I ad I took on the prisoner; I cut off a piece of it at the time, and the mark is now remaining.

West. I believe it to be the lead; the dirt and sand is on it in the manner it was when it was taken.

Prisoner's Defence.

The lead found on me I found in a ditch not far from the place where I was taken; it was lost the night before I was taken.

For the prisoner.

Elizabeth Curby < no role > . I have known the prisoner three years; he is an honest industrious young fellow.

Guilty . T .