890. JAMES ATTLEBURY proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 24th of September , twenty-four penny pieces, and seventy-two halfpence , the property of James Coleman proceedingsvictim .

JAMES COLEMAN < no role > . I am a shoemaker , 210, White Cross . On the 24th of September, the prisoner came into the shop to buy a pair of boot bottoms, they came to eightpence, he paid for them, he asked me to give him a string to tie them, and while I was reaching the string he took a five shilling paper of copper from off the shelf, and ran out of the shop with them, the next morning he came past the shop, and then he took to his heels.

JOHN NEWLAND < no role > . I work for Mr. James Coleman < no role > . I brought home work on the 25th, he told me he had been robbed.

Q. When did you take the prisoner. - A. At half after eleven o'clock, I saw the prisoner standing at the with me, and as soon as the prisoner saw Mr. Coleman he ran, Mr. Coleman said that is him, stop him, I pursued the prisoner and took him in Checquer Alley.

Prisoner's Defence. I am innocent of it.

GUILTY , aged 21.

Confined six Months in the House of Correction, and fined 1 s.

Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.