601. SUSANNAH DAVISON proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of August , a blanket, value 4 s. and five pawnbroker's tickets, value 1 s. the property of Susannah Cameron proceedingsvictim .

SUSANNAH CAMERON < no role > sworn. - I am a widow , my husband died on the 12th of June last; I engaged the prisoner to nurse me in my lying-in, she stopped with me two days, and then she went away on the second night without speaking a word to me.

Q. What did you miss? - A. I missed a blanket and some duplicates, I cannot tell how many; when I went up into her room, she was burning of them; the blanket I took from the prisoner's bed; I took as many of the duplicates from off the fire as were not burned.

Q. When did you go to her room? - A The day after I was churched; she lodged in Butcher-row, she said she had bought the blanket of a woman.

Q. Did she mention the woman's name? - A. No; I told her if she would bring the woman to me, I should like to know how it came out of my house.

EDWARD ROGERS < no role > sworn. - I am an officer; I was sent for on the 16th of August to Butcher-row, I searched the prisoner, and found five tickets, which the prosecutrix swore to be her property; I produce them.

Q.(To Prosecutrix.) I thought you said she put them in the fire? - A. Yes, I have got the remainder of them in my pocket; these are what Mr. Rogers found, they are my duplicates, I knew the blanket to be mine, it had a mark on it.

The prisoner did not say any thing in her defence, nor called any witnesses to her character.

GUILTY , aged 34.

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

Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Heath.