221. CAIN MAHONY proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 6th of April , a Banknote, value 1 l. the property of James Taylor proceedingsvictim .

JAMES TAYLOR < no role > sworn. - I live at No. 25, Brewer-street, Golden-square : On Saturday, the 6th of April, about half past nine at night, I had occasion to send Elizabeth Birch < no role > out, with a Bank of England one pound note, to pay some of the work people.

Q. Do you know the number of the note? - A. I have not the least recollection of the number. While the girl was out, I heard an alarm, and I saw a Mr. Allison, who had stopped the prisoner; and he produced to me a one pound note that he had picked up from the ground, where the prisoner had stood at the time he apprehended him.

ELIZABETH BIRCH < no role > sworn. - Q. How old are you? - A. Ten years old.

Q. Is it a good thing or is it wicked to tell lies? - A. Wicked.

Q. What becomes of wicked people when they die, in another world? - A. They are cast into hell.

Q. Who do you live with? - A. Mr. Taylor; I am servant to him.

Q. Did you receive any Bank-note from your master? - A. Yes, I was to get it changed; it was a one pound Bank-note; I went into the public-house; they told me they could not give me change, and when I came out of the public-house I had the note in my hand; a man then came to me, and said, my dear, your master says you must give me the note; I am to go and get it changed; he then snatched it from me and ran across the road, and ran down Glass-house-street; I holloaed out, stop him, I heard a person say he had got him, and I then went home.

Q. Did you afterwards see any body that had stopped him? - A. Yes, he was brought into the shop by Mr. Allison, a neighbour; a person had told him it was my note.

Q. Can you say whether the man that Mr. Allison brought back to the shop was the man that snatched the note from you? - A. I am not sure it was the same man, but he had a brown jacket on when he snatched the note from me, and so had the man that was brought back to the shop.

JOHN ALLISON < no role > sworn. - I live at No. 11, Glass-house-street: On the 6th of April, about half past ten o'clock at night, I heard a cry of stop thief; I was then in my own house, and the alarm seemed to come from Brewer-street; I live about twenty doors from Mr. Taylor's house; I lookedout of my door and I saw the prisoner running; he crossed to the same side of the way that I live on, and as he was passing my door, I caught hold of his collar, and told him that I should not let him go; he said he was not the person; I told him it was of no use to make any resistance (because he struggled very much), I would not let him go. I heard a voice saying that he had got the child's note; I asked Mr. Maynard, my opposite neighbour, to hold him while I looked for the note; Mr. Maynard took hold of him and I looked on the ground and saw a piece of paper; I went to my own window, where I perceived it was a one pound note.

Q. Whereabouts was it that you found this one pound note? - A. Exactly where I stopped the man; I told Mr. Taylor's people, that came down, that I had got the note, and I begged of them that they would not let the man go; the prisoner was taken to Mr. Taylor, and I asked him if he had lost a note; he said, yes, he had sent his little girl out to get it changed; the prisoner was taken to the watch-house. I produce the note; I have had it in my possession ever since.

Q.(To Prosecutor.) Had you any mark on the note by which you could know it again? - A. No, not the least in the world.

Prisoner's defence. The charge that is alledged against me I am innocent of.

NOT GUILTY .

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron Thompson.