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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 June 2023), May 1825, trial of                   WILLIAM                   CHATFIELD                                                                                                 (t18250519-132).<hr/><h2>WILLIAM CHATFIELD, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, 19th May 1825. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>988.                                  WILLIAM                   CHATFIELD                                                                                                             was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 20th of April                     , a tea-caddy, value 2 l. 2 s., the goods of                                              John                         Dark                                                                                                                                    , in his dwelling-house            .</p>               <p>JOHN DARK. I am a cabinet-maker                  , and live in Leather-sellers'-buildings, London-wall                                                      . On Wednesday, the 20th of April, when I went out in the morning, this caddy was safe; I returned at three o'clock, and it was gone. The materials it is made with did not cost me 40 s. On the Friday following the officer produced it - the prisoner was then in custody.</p>               <p>(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>               <p>                                                BRIDGET                   SIMMS                                                                                       . I live with Mr. Dark. On the 20th of April I had been out about three o'clock, and as I came to the end of my master's window, I saw the prisoner come out of the shop, with the tea-caddy under his arm; I did not follow him: I saw him again on the Monday following, and think he is the man - he had a light fustian jacket and blue trowsers on. Nobody was in the shop.</p>               <p>                                                SAMUEL                   BRIDGES                                                                                       . I am a constable of St. Luke's. I was coming down Chiswell-street on Wednesday, the 20th of April, at twenty minutes past three o'clock, and met the prisoner with something wrapped in a handkerchief; I let him pass, and saw him turn down Whitecross-street, into a narrow passage, and then into Red Lion-market-place - he then put the bundle into his apron; I collared him, and asked what he had there - he said a tea-caddy, which a gentleman gave to him in Finsbury-square, to carry; I asked where to - he said to some street in Oxford-street: I detained him, and on the Friday following I found the owner. I found two skeleton keys on him; one of which opens Dark's door; he had a fustian jacket and blue trowsers on.</p>               <p>                                                                           GUILTY. Aged 19. Of stealing to the value of 39 s. only            .</p>               <p>                                                                           Transported for Seven Years            .</p>            </div>
				
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