16. MARY the wife of JOSEPH HAMMOND < no role > proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a'woollen cloth coat, with fourteen silver buttons there-on, value 30 s. a stuff petticoat, value 5 s. a dimity child's cloak, value 4 s. and a linen child's gown, value 2 s. the property of John Page proceedingsvictim , Nov. 30th .

JOHN PAGE < no role > sworn.

I lost the things mentioned in the indictment; on last Monday was week I saw a woman going out of the entry of my house with a large bundle in her apron; I saw her stoop at the door and take up a pair of pattens, then she went up Watling-street, towards St. Paul's; I called to a servant-maid of a lodger, who was in the kitchen, and asked if any person had gone out from her; she said yes, and came up and asked what I wanted; she thought I called her; then I asked if a woman had gone from her; she said no; then I followed the prisoner; I overtook her, and asked her what she had in her apron; she said, nothing but what was her own; I pulled back her cloak, and saw my coat; I stopped her, and found the other things upon her.

(They were produced by Moses Orme < no role > , a constable, and were deposed to by the prosecutor. The constable likewise produced a bunch of pick-lock keys which were found on the prisoner.)

Prosecutor. I kept the clothes in drawers in the one pair of stairs room.

- PAGE sworn.

I am the wife of the prosecutor; I went up stairs while my husband was gone after the woman, and found two of my drawers open, and the coat missing out of one of them, the rest of the things hung over chairs; I saw them half an hour before.

To the Prosecutor. Are you sure the prisoner is the woman that came out of the passage? - I am sure she is the woman.

PRISONER's DEFENCE .

I deal in old clothes ; as I was going along crying old clothes, a woman called me; I went to look at some clothes; and the prosecutor came up and said they were his property, on which the woman crossed the way, and left me; I am as innocent as the child unborn; I had the keys in my pocket, going to part with them; I knew nothing of the use of them.

Prosecutor. The drawers were locked about a quarter of an hour before.

For the Prisoner.

THOMAS MARTIN < no role > sworn.

I keep a publick-house; I have known the prisoner half a year; she goes out a washing; I never knew her to be guilty of a fault in my life.

JOHN DAVIS < no role > sworn.

I keep a publick-house. The prisoner deals in old clothes and washing. She is an honest sober woman.

JAMES POWELL < no role > sworn.

I am a china mender in Red-Lion-street, Whitechapel. The prisoner lodged with me half a year; I never knew her to be guilty of a fault in my life.

WILLIAM BRIDGE < no role > sworn.

I am a perriwig-maker; I have known the prisoner three years; her husband was journeyman to me two years and an half; she is a very honest industrious woman.

SARAH CHAMBERS < no role > sworn.

What are you? - I do nothing; my husband is a gun-stock maker; I have known the prisoner half a year; she is a very sober honest woman.

LEWIS DEBOYCE < no role > sworn.

I have known the prisoner between four and five years; she is a very honest woman.

ANNE YOUNGER < no role > sworn.

I have known the prisoner four or five years; she is a sober, industrious, hard working woman.

GUILTY B . Imp. one month .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER .