516. WILLIAM MURPHY proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of April , a portmanteau, value 1 l. the property of William Millard proceedingsvictim .

EDWARD GEE < no role > . I am foreman to William Millard, trunkmaker , 392, Oxford-street . On the 17th of April, about six in the evening, I saw the prisoner take this portmanteau from the door. I was at the back part of the shop. As I came forwards I saw him take it away. I pursued him, and took him, and brought him into the shop, and the portmanteau on him. He then wished me to let him off. This is the portmanteau; it is Mr. Millard's property.

GUILTY , aged 66.

Confined 6 months in the house of correction , fined 1 s.

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.