319. JAMES HATTER proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 15th day of March last, forty pounds weight of lead, belonging to James Armstrong proceedingsvictim , then and there fixed to a certain house belonging to the said James Armstrong < no role > , against the statute .

ROBERT JENKS < no role > sworn.

Two young men who lodge at my house, hearing a great noise at the top of the next house to mine, they alarmed me about six in the morning; I came down directly, and saw the prisoner come out of the house with the lead in his hand in a bag; he was stopped by a young man who sleeps at my house.

Do you know where it came from? - It was taken from the gutter between the two houses; he went up, and would have put it in its place again.

THOMAS COBB < no role > sworn.

I heard a great noise at the next house; I got up immediately and came down, and met the prisoner with the lead, and called the watchman, who took him.

- BROOKS sworn.

I fitted the lead, and it matched exactly.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I was going by this house about six in the morning; it is an empty house, the door is always open, and children are often playing in it; I have been in it often; I know nothing of the lead: they gave me in charge of the patrol, who knew me very well.

GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]