318. WILLIAM BRADLEY proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 20th of April two pigs, value 12s. the property of John Shin proceedingsvictim .

JOHN SHIN < no role > sworn.

I am a butcher ; I live next door to the bun-house, at Chelsea ; I lost two pigs on the 20th of April in the morning; I saw them safe the night before in the stye after ten o'clock; when I got up in the morning about five o'clock, to go to market, I missed them; I saw on the straw where they had laid, the brains knocked out, and I traced the blood; I went to the Marquis of Granby; met one John Fryer < no role > ; he asked me if I had lost any pigs, and I went to Mount-street watch-house, about eight o'clock, and found my pigs there; I know them by their colour; one was a brown and striped along the sides, the other was a spotted one; they were both boar pigs.

Q. You have not kept them till now? - A. No, they were good for nothing; I gave them to my boy; they were of no use to me; the head was mashed to pieces.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jackson. Q. I believe there were many robberies of pigs committed about that time? - A. Not that I know of.

Q. All kinds of cattle you know by the face generally? - A. And by the colour of the body too.

Q. Their heads were so disfigured you could not see them? - A. They had mashed the heads, but the skin was not broke.

Q. That is a strange sort of mashing, without breaking the skin? - A. The brains came through the nose.

Q. I believe many persons in your neighbourhood had pigs of this colour? - A. I have seen none.

Q. Do you mean to swear, your neighbours, who kept pigs, had not brown and spotted pigs? - A. I mean to swear no such thing.

WILLIAM FOWLER < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman; I suspected the prisoner, seeing him go into the gardens, and watched him from half past one to four o'clock; and after I had called the hour of four o'clock; I went round the back part of the houses, and saw four men go into an empty house, about one hundred yards from the prosecutor's; I saw the prisoner come out with a bundle, and then they parted; I followed three of them into Hyde-park; the prisoner was by himself when I stopped him; just before we came up to him, he made a kind of stop, and dropped what he had under his coat; when we examined the coat it was all over blood, and he owned himself that he had the property, and dropped it.

Q. What did you find in the bundle? - A. The pigs were wrapped up in his great coat; I took them to the watch-house, in Mount-street, with the prisoner; the prisoner gave a description of thethree men to the watch-house keeper, and Mr. Shin came to the watch-house with them; he said, in the hearing of the prisoner, they were his pigs.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jackson. Q. You found this man in Hyde-Park? - A. Yes.

Q. He had his watch-coat under his arm? - A. Yes.

Q. Hyde-Park was in the way to his quarters, was it not? - A. Yes.

Q. You know nothing more than that you saw him in Hyde-Park? - A. Yes; I watched him out of this empty house.

DANIEL STUART < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman; I saw the prisoner and three more men, at half past one o'clock; we suspected them; I did not see the prisoner taken, not I did not see him go into the empty house; I saw him go out of the King's guard-room, at the York Hospital, Chelsea.

Q. Do you know the person of the prisoner? - A. Yes; we laid wait for them till after four o'clock.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jackson. Q. All that you know is, that you saw this man, and several others, come off guard, and go towards their quarters in Hyde-Park? - A. You don't apprehend me rightly; we apprehended they were upon something that was not lawful, and we laid wait for them.

WILLIAM CALDROW < no role > sworn.

I was on guard, with the prisoner, at the York hospital gate, at Chelsea; at half past four I went to have a pint of beer, I saw the prisoner about a hundred yards before me, and he said he was going up to his quarters at the Barley-moo, in Park-street; he had his great coat under his arm, but what he had in it I do not know any thing at all about.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jackson. Q. You soldiers come off guard at all hours of the night? - A. Yes.

Q. Was it his watch-coat he had under his arm? - A. No.

Q. When you leave guard, you generally put your coats under your arm? - A. Yes.

JOHN BIDDINGTON < no role > sworn.

I am constable and watch-house keeper: On the morning of the 20th of April, I came down stairs, and the prisoner at the bar, and the watchman, were in the watch-house; the prisoner said, he had charged him with stealing two little pigs, and he thought it hard to be confined, as three other persons were concerned in it with himself, and he gave me their directions, and the constable brought them down with Mr. Shin, and I took them down to Marlborough-street. In searching him, I found a large pocket sewed, not as other pockets are, in the slap, but sewed across the back part of his coat, and in that pocket, there was a great deal of blood; when I got to Marlborough-street, I looked, and that pocket was torn off, and I found it in our water-closet; it was produced before the magistrate.

Mr. Jackson. Q. If he had found the pigs, they might have blooded the coat just the same? - A. I don't know any thing of the finding of them.

Prisoner's defence. I had nothing at all to do with them; I don't know any thing about them.(The prisoner called Benjamin Rabow < no role > , his serjeant, who had known him seventeen years in the regiment; and Robert Gatfield who had known him eight years, and gave him a very good character.)

GUILTY . (Aged 39.)

Confined one week in Newgate , and fined 1s.

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.