561. NATHAN PHILLIPS proceedingsdefend was indicted, for that at the General Sessions of the peace for the jail delivery of Newgate, on the 25th of May last, Henry Hart was tried, and convicted of stealing, on the 4th of May , a watch, value 20 s. a watch key, value 4 d. a seal, value 18 d. and a ribbon, value 1 d. the property of Edmund Taylor proceedingsvictim , from his person, and that the prisoner after the felony was committed, on the said day, the said goods so feloniously stolen did receive, he knowing them to be stolen .

(The record of the conviction of Henry Hart read.)

EDMUND TAYLOR < no role > . On the 4th of May, I was robbed of my watch. I saw my watch, again on Thursday evening, it was then in the possession of Kinnersley, the officer. Kinnersley has brought it here to day. This is the watch; I can swear to it being my watch; the initials of my name is upon the case. I was not present when it was found.

Q. Did you see Nathan Phillips < no role > - A. No.

WILLIAM KINNERSLEY < no role > . I am a constable. This is the watch I got from Rebecca Hart < no role > . I went to Nathan Phillips < no role > on the 5th of May, I asked him if he had bought a watch of Isaac Jones < no role > ; he said, no; he did not know Isaac Jones < no role > , nor he had not seen him. I then described the initials on the back of the watch; I told him E. T. for Edmund Taylor < no role > . I told him it was a poor man's watch; if he had seen it, to give it up. He then said, he certainly had seen the watch; young Jones had brought the watch; he had given fourteen shillings for the watch. He said, if he would come at night and bring him the fourteen shillings, he should have the watch.

Q. He first told you he did not know Isaac Jones < no role > - A. He did. I went again in the evening with Mrs. Hart; I stood at the door; I did not go into the house.

Q. Do you know Isaac Jones < no role > - A. I do; he is a lad of bad character.

Q. Do you know whether the prisoner knew Isaac Jones < no role > before that time - A. That I cannot say.

Q. When you told the prisoner that E. T. was upon the back of the watch, that it belonged to a poor man, then he said he certainly had seen it, that he had given young Jones fourteen shillings for it - A. Yes. He said, Isaac Jones < no role > said he found the watch, and he gave fourteen shillings for it. That is as much as I should like to give for the watch. He told me if he would call in the evening, and bring the money, he should have the watch again.

Q. Did the prisoner know you - A. Yes, and I knew the prisoner. I never knew any thing against him. The prisoner is a butcher.

REBECCA HART < no role > . Mr. Kinnersley came to me.

Q. Did you go to the prisoner about a watch - A. I went to some house in George-street about a watch, I cannot tell the number, it was a lodging house; there is a bit of a cook's shop, as far as I could see outside of the window; it was a dark and rainy night. I got the watch there of a tail thin man; I did not see the prisoner. I gave the watch to Kinnersley.

Q. to Kinnersley. Did you ever see the prisoner after you got the watch in your possession - A. Yes, after he was apprehended.

Q. Where you in sight when the last witness went about the watch - A. Yes; I was close to the door.

Q. Whose house was it she went to - A. Nathan Phillips< no role > 's own house.

Q. Did you see who came out - A. No; I stood back. I saw the watch. I did not see who came the second time.

Q. After the prisoner was apprehended, had you any conversation with him about the watch - A. Not then.

Q. You never learned of him whether that watch that you received of Rebecca Hart < no role > , was the watch that he received of Isaac Jones < no role > did you - A. No.

NOT GUILTY .

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Bailey.