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| Verdict | Guilty; Not Guilty |
| Sentence | Transportation |
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152. EDWARD M'CARTNEY and THOMAS GALWIN were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 31st of January last, one silver table spoon, one ditto desert spoon, and two ditto tea spoons, value 10 s. the goods of Thomas Lewis , Esq .
I am footman to Mr. Lewis; he lives in Gower-street, Bedford-square ; the spoons were lost on Tuesday the 31st of January; I was going to put my shirt on in the back-room, and I heard somebody come in at the kitchen-door; I put on my waistcoat; I saw Thomas Galwin , and I asked him what he wanted; he asked whether there were any plasterers at work; I said, no; he asked if it was not No. 36; I said, no, and turned him up the area steps; my mistress saw him, and asked who he was; she said he was a thief, and ordered me to take care; I looked in the kitchen, and missed an old spoon; I went out and found my brother, and then we went into the fields, and saw the prisoners near the Duke of Bolton's; we ran after them, and took them in Southampton-row; I did not see M'Cartney till they were near the Duke of Bolton's; we searched him, and he had the spoons upon him; one is a table-spoon, the other is a desert-spoon (produced); they are Mr. Lewis's spoons; I am sure of it: he said that a man gave them to him.
I am brother to the last witness; I was coming from the stable, and met my brother; he told me there had been thieves in the kitchen, and I asked him which way they were gone; I pursued them, and took M'Cartney; I searched him, and found two spoons; we brought them back; my brother said, as we have got the property, we may as well let them go; so away they went; and one of the maids then came up the area steps, and said we have lost two tea-spoons; I then called out, stop thief! and they were stopped again, and taken to the watch-house.
I keep a green-stall: on the 31st of January, about ten o'clock, I heard the cry of stop thief! I stood by my stall, and saw M'Cartney turn round; I said, stop; I catched him by the collar; there were several people after him; I put my hand into his left-hand breeches pocket; there I found two silver tea-spoons, and a knife; he said a tall man in a green coat had given them to him; I took him before Sir Laurence Cox .
(Two tea-spoons produced.)
Michael Watts . They are my master's spoons, they are in daily use; I had seen them in the morning; one of them is marked T. L.
PRISONER GALWIN's DEFENCE.
Please you, my Lord, as I was going up Gower-street, I met a plasterer; I asked him for a job; he said I might go to No. 36, that the house was white-washing; I went there, and saw this gentleman; I met M'Cartney in Southampton-row.
Prisoner M'Cartney. This boy gave me the spoons.
GUILTY .
EDWARD M'CARTNEY, NOT GUILTY .
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GROSE.