236. CHARLOTTE BARTON proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 26th of January , a cotton gown, value 6 s. the goods of Jane Price proceedingsvictim , widow .

JANE PRICE < no role > sworn.

I am a widow, a chair woman ; I live at No. 4, Gardener's-lane, Duke-street, Westminster ; I have known the child the prisoner a great while; it was the 26th of January, she came into the room, I was not there, and took the gown out; a person, a lodger, called out to me and said somebody had been in and taken the gown away; the girl did not live in the same house, she has got a father, her mother is dead lately; her mother lived lower down in the same lane. It was found out the gown was pawned for 3 s. a person went to the pawnbroker's and enquired for such a thing, the person is not here she was obliged to go away down to Chatham; I left the room between eight and nine, and I missed my gown just afterwards; I was not gone five minutes before the gown was missed; I missed it before nine.

Q. How many lodgers are there in the house? - There are five besides myself, the key was left in the door, somebody went and took the gown out, who that person is I do not know; it was pledged in her name.

WILLIAM BLACK < no role > sworn

I am a pawnbroker, I live at Mr. Wright's, Westminster; on Saturday the 26th of January, the child brought the gown to me about nine o'clock in the morning, the child wanted four shillings, I asked her where she brought it from? she said from her mother; I supposed it was a child of one Walker who uses our house, and she said she lived in Petty France, where that woman lived; I lent her three shillings on it; I am perfectly convinced that is the girl; I knew it wasthe girl immediately as she was brought into the shop again the same afternoon; the gown is here. (Produced and deposed to.)

Prosecutor. I have known the father, and I have known the mother; the mother is dead now, the father works in Charles-street carrying out coals, the mother I don't know much about.

WILLIAM WEBB < no role > sworn.

I am a butcher; I live in Mint-street, in the Borough; the prisoner is my sister's own child, the mother I have been to bury this evening, the child has been lost intirely for want of friends; I never heard where the child was till this evening, her father never took care of her; she has been I understand in Tothill-fields for above a month, and her father would never let me know where she was; I will take care of her if she is spared this time.

Not GUILTY .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.