23, 24. MARY GRAVES proceedingsdefend and ELIZABETH WRIGHT proceedingsdefend were indicted for stealing two cotton gowns, value 38 s. a silk gown, value 6 d. a cotton gown, value 1 s. 6 d. a pair of stays, value 8 s. a stuff petticoat, value 7 s. and a pair of cotton stockings, value 6 d. the property of Judith Burdeau proceedingsvictim , in the dwelling-house of Claud Burdeau < no role > , Oct. 25 .

JUDITH BURDEAU < no role > sworn.

I am the daughter of Claud Burdeau < no role > , we live in Hare-court, Hare-street, Bethnal-green ; my father is a weaver. On the 25th of October after dinner I went up into the one-pair-of-stairs room, I saw my clothes upon the shelves in the closet; I buttoned the door after me and went to work up one pair of stairs higher; I was called down a little after four, Mr. Pullow having stopped the prisoner with the things.

JOHN BAPTIST HOLROYD < no role > sworn.

I am a weaver; I was in the tap-room at the Flower-pot, at the corner of Church-street, Bethnal-green, when Mr. Pullow brought the prisoners in with these goods; I have had the custody of these goods ever since; that was at about half past four; they had the things in their aprons when they were brought into the house.

(The goods were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.

ELIAZAR PULLOW sworn.

On that day I saw the two prisoners in Hare-street, near Hare-court, they entered the court without any property visible to me; they appeared to me to view the door of each house as they passed; when they came to the prosecutor's door, Mary Graves < no role > went up the steps and entered the house. The other stood near the door at the end of the court in waiting; I advanced a few steps from the front of the court that the person in waiting should not observe me; they returned in five or six minutes with some thing upon them; they had no sooner quitted the court but they ran a few yards and then walked a good pace; I followed them down several streets till they came to Church-street; there I stopped them and demanded what property they had upon them, and how they came by it; one of them with insolence said the property was not mine; I went into the Flower-pot and desired of the people to assist me; I took them into a back room, and these things were produced. I left the prisoners and went to the prosecutor's house; and asked if they had lost any thing; they had not missed the clothes at that time; the prosecutrix went up stairs and immediately missed them.

To the Prosecutrix. What is the value of these things? - Three pounds.

BOTH GUILTY of stealing to the value of 39 s.

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .

[Imprisonment. See summary.]