935. ANTONIO JOSEPH proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 6th of August , one iron plough-share, value 4 s. one plough notch, value 2 s. two back-bands, value 2 s. three pieces of iron chain, value 2 s. the property of John Johnson proceedingsvictim .

JOHN WOOD < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman; I took the prisoner by Stepney Church-yard, about a quarter of a mile from the prosecutor's, about a quarter after three in the morning, with the things mentioned in the indictment: there was another man, who ran away.

(The things deposed to by the Prosecutor and his man. )

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I was going to the Portuguese Ambassador, I had a ship to send me home, I met a black, and he asked me to carry these chains for him for sixpence; I put one in one pocket and the other in the other; the watchman took us.

GUILTY, 10 d.

To be whipped and delivered to the Portuguese Ambassador.

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.