64. (L.) BENJAMIN PHILLIPS proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a silk handkerchief, value two shillings , the property of Daniel Sill proceedingsvictim , October 26 . +

Daniel Sill < no role > . On the 26th of October; between six and seven in the evening, coming up Broad-Street, Austin-Fryers : I found my handkerchief drawing out of my pocket; I turned round, and seized the prisoner with it in his hand; there were some boys behind him, who got the handkerchief from him: I secured him, and he was committed, he is so altered now, I don't know him; he was committed by the name of Phillips.

Prisoner's Defence.

I know nothing about it; I am not the boy; I was put in Newgate very wrongfully.

Guilty T .