362. (L.) Sarah Smith proceedingsdefend , widow , was indicted for stealing two linen sheets, value 10 s. one cotton counterpane, one pillow-case, and one silver tea-spoon , the property of Anne Langley proceedingsvictim , June 11 . +

Anne Langley < no role > . One Mrs. Thompson took a room in my house; the prisoner at the bar came backwards and forwards to do her work; at six weeks end I asked Mrs. Thompson for some money, having had none of her, upon which she went off; the prisoner was with her from the Sunday after she came into my house, because she was ill, and she staid two days after Mrs. Thompson, when she said she could not tell where to find Mrs. Thompson. I bid her go away, as I supposed she could not pay the rent of the room: I missed the things mentioned in the indictment, (mentioning them by name) I had missed them before she went away; Mr. Payne went with me to the pawnbrokers; the prisoner told me she had pawned them; the teaspoon, pillow-case, and counterpane were in her own name; the sheets in the name of Rebekah Thompson < no role > .

William Payne < no role > This name instance is in set 2582. . I was the constable; yesterday was three weeks the prosecutrix sent for me to take charge of the prisoner; I went, and found her at her house; she keeps a coal-shed by Fleet-market. I asked the prisoner, where the things were; she told me the pillow-case and counterpane were at Mr. Paterson's, where Mrs. Langley had fetched the tea-spoon from; upon that, I asked her, if she would go over with me to the pawnbroker; she and the prosecutrix both went; the pawnbroker delivered the things without a warrant, one was pawned for half a crown, the other for 3 d. the prisoner owned she had pawned them in her own name; I took her to Wood-street Counter, and the next day to Guildhall; there she confessed she had pawned a pair of sheets in Great Poultney-street, at the other end of the town: the Alderman desired I would go with Mrs. Langley; there we went, and found they were pawned in the name of Rebekah Thompson < no role > : she said she pawned them herself, by Rebekah Thompson < no role > 's order. The magistrate granted a warrant against Rebekah Thompson < no role > ; I have it, but as yet I cannot find her; she is described as a tall woman, very much of a gentlewoman: I expect I shall meet with her by and by.

Thomas Caterel < no role > . I am servant to Mr. Paterson, a pawnbroker in the Fleet-market; on the 23d of last May the prisoner pledged a counterpane, and on the 30th a pillow-case with me; she brought a tea-spoon, but I did not take an account of the time of bringing that.

Charles Murthwaite < no role > . I am a pawnbroker. The prisoner at the bar pledged these sheets with me on the 2d of June; (produced and deposed to) she pledged them in the name of Rebekah Thompson < no role > , whom she said she lived with; she fetched a gown out of Mrs. Thompson's at the same time.

Prisoner's defence.

I was with Mrs. Thompson as a servant; she desired me to carry these things to pawn, and put them in my own name. I did not know at that time that they were Mrs. Langley's, they being packed up at the time; she sent me to Poultney-street, to bring her a white gown out, and to leave the sheets in pawn, which I did. I was obliged to her in no shape, only for my lodging, till I could get a place.

Acquitted .