208. JOHN SIMMONS proceedingsdefend and GEORGE CRIBB proceedingsdefend were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 15th of January , two sacks, value 2s. the property of William Maidlow proceedingsvictim ; one sack, value 1s. the property of John Bovill proceedingsvictim , senior, and others; and six bushels of oath, value 1l. the property of William Maidlow < no role > , And JOHN BAMBER proceedingsdefend was indicted for receiving them on the same day, knowing them to be stolen .

THEOBALD COULING < no role > . On the 15th of January, I saw the prisoners Simmons and Cribb, bring two sacks of oats and take them down into the cellar of No. 18, Swan-yard , that is John Bamber < no role > 's cellar I saw Bamber in his cellar along with them when they were down. They then went up with him into the parlour, and he asked his wife for a one-pound note, which he gave to them. When they were afraid of being discovered, they hid the sacks in the drain, and under the water-butt.

WILLIAM ELTON < no role > . I delivered twenty-five quartens of oats to Messrs. Bovill and Co. I hired Cribb to go for me, and Simmons went with the early; when we got there, I put the horses nose hagsion, and left them to deliver the sacks, as I felt very ill, I went to get something warm to drink.

WILLIAM SALMON < no role > . I am an officer. On the 27th of January, I went to the prisoner Bambeth house, in search of stolen property, but not this; and I found two wet sack marked Maidlow in the the cellar, and two sacks of oats under the bed I took Bamber to his stable and there I found a third sack, marked with the initials of Messer. Bovill and Co.

NOT GUILTY .

Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.