587. ROBERT WHITTINGHAM proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 10th of June , eighty pounds weight of raw sugar, value 40s. the property of Robert Waghorn proceedingsvictim , John Senham proceedingsvictim , Joseph Sabine proceedingsvictim , Thomas Knight proceedingsvictim , John Blake proceedingsvictim , Henry Ventris proceedingsvictim , Timothy Hewlett proceedingsvictim , John England proceedingsvictim , Jonas Deare proceedingsvictim , and Thomas Hinton proceedingsvictim .( Thomas Hinton < no role > , a gangsman proved the firm as stated in the indictment.)

JOSEPH MILLS < no role > sworn. - I am a cooper: On Thursday the 10th of June, about five o'clock in the afternoon, I was looking out at the three story window of the warehouse, and saw the prisoner go out of one warehouse into the other, with a large bundle; I went down below and found the prisoner sitting on a knap-sack of sugar; I pointed him out to a constable, and he was taken away; I found a deficiency in one hogshead, of one hundred pounds, some of it was scattered on the floor.(Thomas Hunter, a constable, produced the property.)

SIMON MAZE < no role > sworn. - I was on Galley-quay; I heard an alarm; I went into the building; they had got the prisoner down on his back, and he was striving very hard to get away from them; I laid hold of him, and kept him till my master came up; he was taken on the same floor where the sugar was missing.

Hinton. This is the same sort of sugar that was missing; we are responsible for it.

Prisoner's defence. I was very much in liquor, but as to the sugar I know nothing about it; I have a wife and three children; I throw myself on the mercy of the Court and Jury.

NOT GUILTY .

London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.