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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 October 2023), October 1812, trial of                      JAMES                      BROWN                                                                                                    (t18121028-57).<hr/><h2>JAMES BROWN, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 28th October 1812. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>898.                                                       JAMES                      BROWN                                                                                                                               was indicted for                                                          feloniously stealing, on the 19th of October                     , 4 silver table-spoons, value 2 l. and a silver tea-spoon, value 2 s.             the property of                                                       Hypoliti Joseph                      Da Costa                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>                                                JAMES                   IRWIN                                                                                       . I am servant to Mr. Da Costa; he is the editor of the Courier                  . He lives at No. 1, New Inn, in the parish of St. Clement's                                                      . The prisoner came several times under pretence of seeing my master; and the spoons were taken at different times.</p>               <p>                                                THOMAS                   MARTIN                                                                                       . I produce a spoon pledged at my shop. I cannot say whether the prisoner is the man that pawned it or no.</p>               <p>MR. OAKLEY. I bought three spoons of the prisoner, at three different times.</p>               <p>                                                WILLIAM                   HOMAN                                                                                       . I apprehended the prisoner, he confessed to me that he had stolen the spoons; he said he had pawned one. He went with me to Mr. Oakley's, where he had sold the other three.</p>               <p>Prisoner's Defence. I confess that I took them.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY            , aged 29.</p>               <p>                                                                           Transported for Seven Years            .</p>               <p>First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.</p>            </div>
				
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