292. JANE BELL proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 8th of March , five case knives, value 3 s. two case forks, value 4 d. the goods of James Richardson proceedingsvictim .

JAMES RICHARDSON < no role > sworn.

I am a publican ; I keep the sign of the Man in the Moon, in the parish of St. Mary's, Whitechapel ; I know the prisoner at the bar, she came in and called for two pennyworth of gin and water, and she conveyed the knives and forks in her pocket; I did not see her put them in. I charged her with taking them, and then she took them out, it was the 8th of March. I never see her before, she begged for mercy.

Prisoner. I am not a woman given to liquor nor never was; I went into this house; I never was before a judge in my life; I was a little in liquor, and I set me down, and they took these things from me; but I never saw them, nor knew where I was till between eight and nine at night, I was not sensible.

GUILTY . (Aged 51.)

Imprisoned six months in the House of Correction , and fined 1 s .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.