649. MARY BOLLAND proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a mahogany tea chest with three tin canisters, value 10 d. the property of James Bolter proceedingsvictim and Mark Daws proceedingsvictim , September 11th .

JAMES BOLTER < no role > sworn.

I am an upholder , in partnership with Mark Daws < no role > : the prisoner was detected yesterday morning with a tea chest; I did not see it till she was taken.

JOHN WEST < no role > sworn.

I am an apprentice to Messrs. Bolter and Daws; I put a tea chest on a table at the door; I turned my back about a minute, and it was gone; I saw the prisoner, and pursued her, and found the tea chest under her cloak.

[The tea chest was produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I had not the tea chest, it lay in the street, there was another woman running, who outrun the young man, and he laid it on me.

GUILTY . W .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.