“They were.”

“On whose person, after having been stolen, were they found?”

“On the person of the prisoner at the bar.”

“You swear that?”

“I do; because I saw him take them out of his pocket in my own house after he had been made prisoner and detected.”

“Then they are your property?”

“Certainly—I consider them my property; who else's property could they be.”

“Pray, is not your daughter a minor?”

“She is.”

“And a ward in the Court of Chancery?”