24. FRANK PURDON proceedingsdefend and SAMUEL THOMAS GOULD proceedingsdefend were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Isaac Mendoza proceedingsvictim , at about the hour of eight in the night of the 14th of October , with intent to steal, and burglariously stealing therein, eight 1l. bank notes, two 2l. bank notes, two silver tea spoons, value 4s. and an immense quantity of other articles, the property of the said Isaac Mendoza < no role > .

ISAAC MENDOZA < no role > . I am a baker , and live at No. 2, Petticoat lane, Spitalfields . I went out between seven and eight on the night of Saturday, the 14th of October; I left my dwelling house without anybody in it, it was then dark. I fastened the yard door with two bolts, and double locked the front door, and put the key in my pocket; all the windows were fastened; the back windows were nailed down; the wall of my back yard was down, so that any body could get into the yard. I returned home at about a quarter before twelve, and went to put the key to the key hole to open the door, and found it was open, it went from me; I found the back door wide open. I immediately ran up stairs, and found drawers open, and on putting my hand I found they were empty. I suppose the value of all the property we lost was at least thirty pounds; besides the notes; there were eight one pound notes, and two two pound notes, besides a one pound note which I did not know of, and which my wife had in one of her gloves. We then got a light, and I proceeded down stairs; on the wooden cover of a water jarr I found some matches, and a pipe with some tobacco in it. On the following morning in the yard I found this piece of candle broken.

PRISCILLA MENDOZA < no role > . I am the wife of the last witness. I went out with him between seven and eight o'clock on the night of the 14th of October; it was dark; we were obliged to light candles before we went out of the house. I returned with my husband at about a quarter before twelve; all the property was gone. I had seen that the drawers were full in the morning. I had a one pound note which my husband know nothing of, in a pair of gloves, in one of the drawers where my clothes were; I had taken it from a Dutch Jew, a young man who had sold me a Dutch tablecloth; I had had it three or four weeks; he wrote the persons name from whom he had received it in Dutch or Hebrew; I could not read the writing he put upon it; but I have seen a similar note since, and to all appearence it is the same.

SARAH THORP < no role > , a material witness, not appearing, was called upon her recognizance.

NOT GUILTY .

Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Wood.