Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th May 1818
828.
JOHN
HOOPER
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing, on the 6th of April
, one watch, value 5l.; one seal, value 5s., and one key, value 6s., the goods of
John
Rue
proceedingsvictim
, from his person
.
JOHN RUE. I am a surgeon
, and live in Charles-street, Westminster
. On the 6th of April, I was standing at my door for admittance, about twelve o'clock at night, a man ran by and snatched my watch out of my fob - I pursued, but lost him. He appeared stouter, and not so tall as the prisoner.
WILLIAM
SQUIRES
< no role >
. I am a watchman. On the 6th of April, about twelve o'clock at night, I was in Charles-street. I heard the alarm, ran out, and was told the man had ran up another street; I found the prisoner behind a privy at the bottom of Eastwood's stable-yard - He said he had not got the watch? I had said nothing about it. I took him into a public-house, Mr. Rue came in, and said if he could have his watch again he should go about his business. The prisoner said he would go and get it. I asked him to tell me where he had dropped it; he said,"Just down by where I ran." I went to the yard, and brought it in.
Cross-examined by MR. ADOLPHUS. I heard the alarm, and pursued some person, whom I did not see. The man who said he had ran down the yard, was shorter and stouter than the prisoner.
JOHN< no role >
M'KENNA. I am watchman of Crown-street. I saw a person run along the stable-yard, which is no thoroughfare. Squires came up and took the prisoner. I found the watch where the prisoner was taken.
(Property produced and sworn to.)
MR. RUE re-examined. I did not hear the prisoner say where the watch was.
Prisoner's Defence. I did not say where the watch was.
NOT GUILTY
.
Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.