27. JANE CARTWRIGHT proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing four sheets, value 10 s. the property of Sampson Rainsforth proceedingsvictim This name instance is in set 2588. , Robert Moore proceedingsvictim , John Alderson proceedingsvictim , John Wright proceedingsvictim , James Brooks proceedingsvictim , and William Moore proceedingsvictim , September 13th .

JOHN ALDERSON < no role > sworn.

I am one of the overseers of St. Clement's . On the 23d of September Mr. Eglington, the master of the workhouse, applied to me, and informed me the prisoner, who was a pauper in the workhouse, had taken some sheets. I went with him to Mr. Davidson's, a pawnbroker, in Fleet-street, and found the four sheets pledged; but he did not deliver up the sheets till some time afterwards, till I got a warrant from the Lord Mayor.

Whose property are these sheets? - The property of the churchwardens and overseers of the parish (naming them). They belonged to the workhouse, and had the parish mark upon them, which is an anchor.

HUGH DAVIDSON < no role > sworn.

I am a pawnbroker in Fleet-street. I had three sheets; they were delivered up at the Mansion-house, to Mr. Eglington, the master of the workhouse.

PETER EGLINGTON < no role > sworn.

I had these sheets (producing them) of Mr. Davidson, the pawnbroker; I have had them ever since; they are the property of the Parish of St. Clement.

Davidson. The prisoner had a different appearance then, but I am certain she is the same person. She brought me a sheet and said her name was Jane Cartwright < no role > , and I lent her one shilling and sixpence; that was on the 29th of August. She < no role > said she was an house-keeper in Carey-street. The mark on the sheet was obliterated with whiting, that I really did not see it. The other two sheets were received on the 31st of August, and the 13st of September. They were taken in by my young man; I was in the shop when they were taken in. They were brought by the prisoner.

Did you observe no mark on the sheets? - I did not. The mark was in black, and was obliterated with whiting, on that I took in.

When was the fourth taken in? - That was on the 1st of August; I was not present then.

Were the marks of them all so defaced that you could not discern them? - I believe all the marks were defaced; they have been one with whiting.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I leave myself to the mercy of the court.

GUILTY . W. and Imp 3 months .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.