78. WILLIAM WALTON proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing three pair of thread stockings, value 5 s. two pair of worsted stockings, value 4 s. two pair of silk stockings, value 4 s. and a pair of women's shoes, value 2 s. the property of John White proceedingsvictim , September 17th .

JOHN WHITE < no role > sworn.

I live in Blackman-street, Clare Market . On the 18th of September there was a sale of goods at my house. As I was moving, the prisoner was put there to lot the goods. My wife, in moving, left a box in a closet. I went back, and taxed the prisoner with knowing something of the box; he denied it. I advertised these things; and on the 18th of last month I went to a sale, there I saw the prisoner with one of these pair of stockings upon him; I immediately apprehended him; I searched his lodgings, and found six pair more; the marks were all cut out of these stockings; I believe they are mine, but I swear particularly to one pair of them. I also found a pair of shoes at his lodgings. (They were produced in Court.)

MARY WHITE < no role > sworn.

I am the prosecutor's wife; these are my shoes.

Prisoner's Defence.

My wife is a washerwoman; she worked for a gentleman, who gave her these stockings for half a guinea he owed her.

GUILTY of the stealing only.

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .

[Imprisonment. See summary.]