227. THOMAS CRAYFORD proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 24th of February , two pair of worsted breeches, value 30s. and a pair of thickset breeches, value 5s. the property of Joseph Sandall proceedingsvictim , the elder , privately, in his shop .

JOSEPH SANDALL < no role > , jun. sworn.

My father is a silk dyer and scowerer , No. 33, Wych-street : On the 24th of February my mother called to me, and told me, a boy was gone out of the shop; I followed him to the corner of Arrundel-street, and said, he had got something that did not belong to him; he said, he had not; I looked in his apron, and found three pair of breeches; two pair of stcoking breeches, and one pair of buff thickset; I never lost fight of him;(the things produced in Court), these are my father's property; I had seen them in the shop not ten minutes before the prisoner took them; they have our shop marks in the waistband.

- TALBOYS sworn.

I took these things out of the prisoner's apron.

Prisoner's defence. I was going along and saw these three pair of breeches lying upon the area rails; I enquired of a boy that I saw there, who they belonged to; he said, he did not know; and I put them in my apron, and this man came up.

GUILTY, of stealing, but not privately .(Aged 15.)

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .