61. CORNELIUS DELTENON proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 20th of December , thirty lemons, value 1 s. 5 d. a basket, value 1 d. a copper pocket-piece, value one farthing, and a piece of copper money, called a farthing , the property of Samuel Tilley proceedingsvictim .

SAMUEL TILLEY < no role > sworn. - I am a green-grocer : On the 20th of December, I lost a basket of lemons about six o'clock, and about a quarter past six, a person brought the prisoner back with a basket containing part of the lemons; they were inside the shop; I know nothing of the prisoner; there was an imitation of a farthing, which I had dropped into the basket that evening, and there was a pocket-piece in it.

- sworn. - I am an officer: I was going to the Office, when I met the prisoner, and four other boys, whom I knew; one of them had been convicted before; they all ran up Church-street, out of Shoreditch; I then saw the prisoner crawl into Mr. Tilley's shop upon his hands and knees; he came out again, and ran up Church-street; I thought he had only taken a few apples, and I was going to the Office, when I saw him and another boy come back, go into the shop, and take a basket of lemons; I immediately took hold of him, and carried him back with the lemons.

The prisoner did not say any thing in his defence.

GUILTY , aged 11.

Whipped in the jail , and discharged.

Second Middlesex Jury, before the Lord Chief Baron.