On Saturday, the 22d of December, one of the men came forward, and desired me to take notice of the prisoner; I followed him out at the door, and took the rivets from him; I asked him what he had got in his pocket; he said, he had nothing; I then took the rivets out of his pocket, and he said, they were to make a soldering iron for a friend, who had asked him several times to get him one. (Produce