234. THOMAS PARROTT proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a piece of brown linen cloth, value 20 s. a piece of cloth called Russia Pocketing, value 40 s. two pieces of cloth, called Dublin Dowlas, value 4 l. sixteen yards of long lawn, value 3 l. four pieces of printed cotton, value 12 l. the property of John Clarridge proceedingsvictim , March 1st .

JOHN CLARRIDGE < no role > sworn.

I am a carrier . I had the care of the goods mentioned in the indictment. I drove my waggon to Bushey; there the waggon stopped; just after that, I found that a truss had been cut open, and several articles were gone out of it, for there was remaining but three pieces of coarse cloth; I had a suspicion of the prisoner, having known something of him before. When I came near Kilburn, I saw the prisoner walking by a hay-cart; I came up to him, and charged him with having taken these goods out of the waggon; at first he denied it; afterwards he said, the goods were in the cart; I then looked in the cart, and found the several articles mentioned in the indictment (repeating them); I then had the prisoner searched, and there was a half-piece of long lawn concealed in his clothes; these goods were brought to town, and carried with the prisoner to the office in Bow-street, where a clerk of Mr. Moore < no role > the linen-draper in Cheapside attended.

(Mr. Moore's clerk deposed, that he saw the goods in Bow-street, and knew them to be the property of his master; that a parcel in a truss had been sent the preceding day to the Windmill, Clarridge's, to go by that waggon to Layton Buzzard.)

WILLIAM MOSELY < no role > sworn.

On the first of March, about three in the morning, as I was setting off from Bushy with my hay-cart to London, the prisoner desired me to let him put some goods into the cart, which I agreed to. As we were coming to London, Clarridge stopped us at Kilburn; the prisoner very soon, upon being charged with the fact by Clarridge, owned that the things were upon the cart.

The book-keeper to the waggon deposed, that he booked a truss directed to go by Clarridge's waggon to Layton Buzzard.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I am not guilty of the fact.

GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury, before Lord LOUGHBOROUGH.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]