548. JOHN BOLTON proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of September , a pair of bellows, value 1s. 6d. the property of Thomas Mallard proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS MALLARD < no role > sworn. - I am porter to a broker, and keep a little broker's-shop besides: On Monday the 17th of September, about half past eight in the evening, I lost a pair of bellows; on the Tuesday morning, a neighbour of the name of Cooper came to ask me if I had lost a pair; I told him I did not know that I had, I looked and missed a pair; I went with him to the watch-house about eleven o'clock, and saw them in care of the watch-house-keeper, I knew them to be mine by my own writing, and my own work in them; I never saw the prisoner till I saw him at the watch-house.

WILLIAM BROWN < no role > sworn. - I am a watchman: I took charge of the prisoner from John Cooper, and I took him to the watch-house, with a pair of bellows and a tub of oysters, the bellows were lying on the tub, (produces them); I gave them to the watch-house-keeper, and when I came to Marlborough-street they were delivered into my care.

JOHN COOPER < no role > sworn. - I am a journeyman painter: On Monday night, the 17th of September, about half past nine o'clock, a boy came in, and said, there are two men gone off with a tub of oysters of your's; I immediately went after them, and in High-street, St. Giles's, I saw the prisoner with the tub, and a pair of bellows at the top of it; I laid hold of him, and told him they were mine; I called the watchman, and gave charge of him and the property.

Q. Look at the bellows? - A.These are the same bellows.

Mallard. These are my bellows, they have my own mark upon them in writing (1s. 9d.), and the loop had dropped off, and I put on another made out of a strap of an old pair of boots of mine.

Prisoner's defence. A man asked me to carry them for him to Oxford-road. NOT GUILTY .

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