286. PENRY JONES proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 2d of February , a spring table clock, value 39 s. the goods of the Right Honourable Ann Baroness Godolphin proceedingsvictim .

(The Case opened by Mr. Fielding)

JOSEPH AXFORD < no role > sworn.

I am a servant to lady Godolphin; the watch was taken out of the parlour on the 2d of February, about half past nine o'clock; her ladyship rung the bell and I went in, my fellow servant shut the window that evening, I did not see it that evening; I saw it the morning of that day, the prisoner was servant there with me about three weeks; I cannot recollect how long ago he left the service,I believe four months from this time; he had left the service about three weeks or a month before this loss. I was at the justice's, where I understood, he had taken the clock.

Q. Was what he said before the justice committed to writing? - It was.

- NETTLETON sworn.

I am a servant; I saw the clock that evening between four and five; I shut the windows that night; there is a stable yard communicates to Lady Godolphin's house, in this yard there is an access immediately to the house; in consequence of the clock being missed, we searched the house immediately, but we could find no clock, nor any body in the house; there was no other step taken then; I did not see the prisoner till the day he was taken; I believe he was apprehended near Monmouth-street. I did not go with him to Bow-street.

Q. What sort of a clock was this? - I cannot describe the clock, but it was in a black case, it was a table clock; I don't know the maker's name.

Axford. The maker's name is Knibb.

Q. Was the clock ever found? - It is not found yet.

Q. In what service was this boy? - A foot boy.

Q. Do you know where he came from? - I do not, he was in her Ladyship's service before I went, he had lived with her about a twelve month.

WILLIAM BRAMBLE < no role > sworn.

I live at No. 107, Oxford-street; a clock-maker by trade; I know the lad at the bar, I met him on the 2d of February last in Oxford-street, between the hours of eight and nine, there was one Edward Poole < no role > with him; I had been to carry some work home, and was very wet, I knew him before; Edward Poole < no role > said, you are the very man we want; so I asked him what they wanted? they said, they had got a clock, I asked them where they had got it? they gave me no direct answer, but I went with them to No. 39, Rathbone-Place, when I came there, Edward Poole < no role > went to get a light, and they placed this clock on the table, Edward Poole < no role > did, and the prisoner was present, when they placed it on the table, I told them it was an old family piece, they said, it belonged to Penry Jones, the prisoner at the bar; with that, I asked the prisoner at the bar how long he had had this clock? he said, he had had it three weeks, I told him, that never could be, for I knew it was an eight day clock, and it was then going, and that he must come dishonestly by it; then they asked me if I would make a winder to it? I told him no. I asked Penry Jones if he knew the consequence of it? and I told him to take the clock back again to the right owner of it, then they both laughed at me, and said, would I not make a winder to it? I said no; and I had no further discourse with them till I saw the prisoner at Bow-street. This clock was in a black ebony case. The name I verily believe to be Knibb. I observed the name at the time, and I verily believe it; the circle of the clock was pierced. They came afterwards to the public house where I was, but we had no conversation there about the clock.

Q. Was you before the magistrate? - I was.

Q. Have you a perfect recollection what the boy said there? - He told the magistrate that he had stole the clock.

Q. Did he say where? - He said, he had stole it of his mistress our Lady Godolphin, and that he had given it to a coachman to sell.

Court to Nettleton. What kind of a clock was it - The clock had a black ebony case.

Prisoner I know nothing at all about it; I came from Carmarthen in South Wales.

NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Lord KENYON.