1. BENJAMIN HARDING proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 1st of January , two mens linen shirts, value 2s. a smock frock, value 6d. a pair of cotton stockings, value 6d. and a pair of worsted stockings, value 6d. the goods of Robert Tee proceedingsvictim .

WILLIAM JORDAN < no role > sworn.

The prosecutor, Robert Tee < no role > , and the prisoner were drinking together at an alehouse, the Blackamore's Head, at Islington .

Q. Was you in their company? - I was not; I know nothing only what the prisoner at the bar said; he left the bundle that night at another woman's house.

Q. How do you know this? - The woman told me so.

Q. What do you know of your own knowledge? - He brought the bundle to me about five o'clock into my stable.

Q. When? - I cannot say the day of the month, nor month.

Q. Did you examine the contents of this bundle? - No, I never opened it at all, he laid it down and said, here is a bundle of clothes for you to carry home for your wife to wash and mend, I took it home to my wife.

Q. Then he gave the bundle to you for the purpose of your wife's washing it? - Yes, he did.

Q. Was you present when it was opened? - No, it laid all day Monday and Tuesday; that is all I know.

ANN JORDAN < no role > sworn.

I am the wife of the last witness.

Q. What have you got there? - I have got a child.

Q. Have you got the bundle? - No.

Q. Any of the particulars mentioned in the indictment? - No, the bundle came to me to wash and mend, my husband delivered it to me.

Q. Did you open it? - My little girl opened it, there were two shirts in it and a smock frock, two pair of stockings, and a pair of cotton stockings; I did nothing with them, I had not time before they were taken away from me by the constable; the owner had them again.

Q. What is become of the prosecutor? - He is gone away

Not GUILTY .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN.