188. CHARLOTTE WALKER proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1436. was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 21st of January , 3s. in money , the monies of Thomas Creswell proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS CRESWELL < no role > sworn. - I work in the leather line : I was coming down Drury-lane , about five o'clock in the morning, I had been in bed, but was taken very ill, and was obliged to go down stairs; as I was going to get something to drink, I met this woman in the street, and she closed her arms round me, and while I was defending myself and pushing her off, she put her hands into my pocket and took out three shillings, and left two counterfeit halfpence in the room of the money, it was the left-hand pocket of my breeches; I called the watchman immediately, and we went to the watch-house; while we were going, a woman joined her, and walked by the side of her for the space of ten or fifteen yards, I suspected she had received the money from the prisoner; when she was searched at the watch-house she had no shillings about her, only a counterfeit dollar.

Court. Q.When had you occasion to look into your pocket before this? - A. I had my hand in my pocket, and the money, when I met her.

Q. Were you sober? - A. Yes, I was; the constable of the night saw I was sober when I gave charge of her.

Q. When was this? - A. On the 21st of January.

THOMAS ADAMS < no role > sworn. - I am a watchman: Close by my box I heard this man crying out watch, I went where he was, and he gave me charge of her; I found nothing in her pocket but a counterfeit dollar, and two bad halfpence; there was a woman that followed us best part of the way to the watch-house, they were close together. I drove her off.

Prisoner's defence. About five o'clock in the morning, I was going for some raisin wine for a poor woman who had been poorly for some time, and as I was going into the house for it, the prosecutor came out with three other women, and he asked me if he should go home with me; I told him, no, and then he called the watch, and said I had robbed him; I told him, how can you say that you have been robbed, when you know the women said you had hardly money enough to pay for the last liquor you called for; he said, I had robbed him of three shillings, and he pulled me about a good deal.

NOT GUILTY .

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