20. THOMAS GREEN proceedingsdefend and JOHN WILKINS proceedingsdefend were indicted for stealing, on the 4th of November last, one woollen hammer cloth, value 30 s. a box cloth coat, value 12 s. a pair of leather breeches, value 7 s. an iron saw, value 6 d. the property of Joseph Wheeler proceedingsvictim , Esq . a blue cloth coat, value 20 s. a cloth waistcoat, value 4 s. a woollen and cotton ditto, value 1 s. a hempen frock, value 6 d. a pair of linen trowsers, value 6 d. a leather hat, value 2 s. a gold laced hatband, value 2 s. two pair of leather shoes, value 6 d. a linen handkerchief, value 1 s. the property of William Bellamy proceedingsvictim .

WILLIAM BELLAMY < no role > sworn.

I am coachman to Mr. Wheeler; I lost the things in the indictment, from the stable at Highgate ; I saw all the things safe over night; I did not see them on either of the prisoners; on the Tuesday following, some of them were produced at Justice Read's.

RICHARD LOVELL < no role > sworn.

I attend Litchfield-street office, on Saturday the 7th of November; I apprehended Green on an information, at the White Horse, Oxford-street; he had this hat on, it is a leather hat, in his pocket this pair of gloves; I apprehended Wilkins in Oxford Buildings, on the Tuesday after Saturday, the 10th: he had on this frock.

FRANCIS MURREY < no role > sworn.

I am an officer belonging to Mr. Read, on the 7th of November, I was with Lovell; I pulled off Green's boots, and found these worsted and silk stockings.

FRANCES BROWN < no role > sworn.

My husband is a carpenter and joiner; on the 6th of November the prisoner Wilkins came to our house and asked me for a bed to sleep there; he slept there all night, he said he was just come out of the country, and was distressed, and he desired to leave this waistcoat till eight in the morning, that he might find a friend; he never came there, and a constable came for it.

(The things deposed to.)

Samuel North < no role > called on his recognizance.

PRISONER GREEN's DEFENCE.

I went into Samuel North < no role > 's room, and he was ripping off the lace of a coat, and told a woman to burn it, that the coat might not be known; he had that hat in his hand, I bought it of him, and the stockings and that handkerchief and the gloves, I gave him 4 s. and he had a quartern of gin out of it.

PRISONER WILKINS's DEFENCE.

I bought my smock frock of Samuel North < no role > , as he set upright in bed.

BOTH NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.