267. TIMOTHY KEENE proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 19th of March , thirty pound weight of fat, value 8 s. the property of Samuel Berry proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS RAINE < no role > . I am servant to Mr. Samuel Berry < no role > , wholesale perfumer , Greek street, Soho, in the parish of St. Ann .

Q. What was the prisoner. - A. He was a labourer there; we were in the habit of melting our own fat, for the purpose of making into pomatum; we allow the men the pugs, after the fat is melted; that is the refuse, the skins. In consequence of a letter we received from a tallow chandler, we suspected that we were robbed of fat to some amount. On the 19th of last month I saw the prisoner take out a quantity of fat in a bag; I went after him and saw him selling this fat in Mr. Briant's shop, a tallow chandler in Greek street.

Q. Are you sure it was the same fat. - A. I am sure. I followed him and the fat; I have no doubt but the fat I saw him take was the fat I saw him selling.

Prisoner. I have been in the shop sixteen years. I shewed Mr. Raine< no role > the waste of the skins, and the fat was the scrapings of the floor.

Witness. As he passed me, he said you see it looks very brown; I saw it was brown at the top; I took no further notice of it.

ROBERT BRIANT. Q. You are a tallow chandler. A. Yes. On Saturday I bought the fat of the prisoner, I gave him eight shillings for it; the top of the fat was what was allowed them, the refuse of the skins; at the bottom of that was suet; I gave him three pence a-pound for it. If I had seen the bottom I should have allowed him sixpence a pound.

Prisoner's Defence. I sold nothing but the scrapings of the floor and the pickings of the skins.

NOT GUILTY .

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.