729. JOHN KNOWLAND proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a dimity child's robe, value 15 s. a robe blanket, value 7 s. two linen aprons, value 1 s. a silk cloak, value 17 s. a muslin cap, value 3 s. a pair of linen sleeves, value 1 s. six linen shirts, value 20 s. and a silk handkerchief, value 4 s. the property of Joseph Peach proceedingsvictim , October 3d .

JOSEPH PEACH < no role > sworn.

I am a coachmaker in the neighbourhood of Bloomsbury: the bundle containing the things mentioned in the indictment was in the Richmond stage, in which my wife came to town on last Wednesday was se'nnight.

FRANCES PEACH < no role > sworn.

When I came to the Elephant and Castle where the stage put up, I desired the coachman to bring my bundle out of the coach; he did something else in the mean time; when he came to look for my bundle; it was gone: on the Friday morning following I received information that the bundle was found; I went to the beadle, in whose hands I found all the things mentioned in the indictment (repeating them) which are part of the things contained in that bundle; some few others were not found.

JOHN ANSELL < no role > Sworn.

I am the coachman that drives the Richmond stage: the bundle was taken away by somebody while I was carrying some boxes into the yard; I saw it in the coach just before; I was informed by one Thomas Bird < no role > that the prisoner had brought some things to his wife on the day before; I sent for Mrs. Peach; she claimed them, and the prisoner was taken into custody; he was asked where the rest of things were? he asked leave to fetch them; they would not let him go; he asked if his master might; upon that the prisoner, I, and Ruddick went together to the loft where the prisoner slept, for he was my horsekeeper ; the prisoner took from under the sacks in the loft, first the sarsenet cloak, and then the several parcels of other things, and a parcel of childbed linen that was in a little box.

[They were produced in Court, and deposed to by Mrs. Peach.]

' THOMAS RUDDICK < no role > gave the same account

'of finding the things.'

SUSANNAH BROAD < no role > sworn.

On the Thursday the prisoner came to my apartment and told me he had some things to wash, and he wanted to have some money upon them, for he said he had spent some money his master had given him to buy provisions for his horses against they came in; he produced two bed gowns and the linen robes; I did not like the appearance of them; I said they did not want washing, and was unwilling to have any thing to do with them, but at his earnest persuasion I did let him have some money to buy the horse-meat against the stage came in; I heard the next day that the prosecutrix had lost a bundle; I told my husband of it, and he told Ansell, and so the things were found.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I found this bundle in the yard just by the cistern; it lay in the open stable all day.

GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron EYRE.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]