34. ANN THORNTON proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 16th of November last, one muslin apron, value 5 s. one shirt, value 6 d. one pair of cotton stockings, value 2 s. and one linen handkerchief, value 6 d. the property of William Cooke proceedingsvictim .

WILLIAM COOKE < no role > sworn.

On the 16th of November, the prisoner came into the house where I lodge; she was in the tap room when I came down, which was about ten o'clock; I went into the club room, and the prisoner came up there and went out again; she drank once or twice in the club room; there were five or six men and women there; she went out and came in, in about an hour; then she went out again, and came in again; then she went away, and I never saw her till she was taken up on suspicion, on the 18th; I missed the things in the indictment on the 17th; the apron was my wife's; the other things were mine; she acknowledged where she had pawned all the things, with one Thomas Brown < no role > ; there I found them.

THOMAS SANDERSON < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Thomas Brown < no role > ; I produce a shirt, a pair of stockings, and a handkerchief; I took them of the prisoner.

(Deposed to.)

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I never pawned these things at all.

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[Transportation. See summary.]