579. (M.) THOMAS YOUNG proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a chesnut-coloured gelding, value ten pounds , the property of Thoman Hillson proceedingsvictim , July 24 +.

Thomas Hillson < no role > . On the 24th of July, I lost a horse out of a field near the two mile stone, on the Bow road ; I missed it the next morning. On Friday the 4th of August, one Mr. Brooks, a Brewer at Stratford, who had lost a horse some time before, informed me he had received a letter from a gentleman at Rye, giving him information of the horse he had lost, and describing another horse which he believed to be mine, and that his son and one Stevens were going to Rye to take the man in whose possession it was found, and if the other horse was mine, they would send me a line. I was sent for soon after to Sir John Fielding < no role > 's, there I saw the prisoner and my horse; I am sure the horse, I saw at Sir John Fielding < no role > 's was mine.

William Stevens < no role > . On the 4th of August between eight and nine in the morning, I took the prisoner on Mr. Hillson's horse in Fair-Street, Horslydown; I put him in a coach and I rode the horse to Sir John Fielding < no role > 's; I left the horse at the White Hart near Bow-street, with orders not to deliver it to any body till I came for it; when I returned, I saw Mr. Hillson at Sir John Fielding < no role > 's, I went with him to the stable, and shewed him the horse I found the prisoner upon.

Q. to Hillson. Was the horse you saw in the stable at the White Hart, your horse?

Hillson. Yes.

John Brooks < no role > . I was with Stevens when he took the prisoner upon the horse; we had a description of the man, being on my father's horse at Rye.

The prisoner said nothing in his defence.

Guilty Death .