264. ANN SOMERVILLE proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 13681368. was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 1st of January , a woollen cloth great coat called a drab great coat, value 2 s. six pair of silk stockings, value 9 s. two linen shirts, value 3 s. a dark lanthorn, value 1 d. one cotton waistcoat, value 3 s. the goods of Charles Birckbeck Andree proceedingsvictim . A silver tea spoon, value 3 s. the goods of Charlotte Andree proceedingsvictim , widow , and a Vanhee cane, value 6 d. the goods of George Andree proceedingsvictim .

CHARLES BIRCKBECK ANDREE < no role > sworn.

I live in chambers in Staple's Inn ; I lost a vast quantity of things; those in the indictment are only what we found; I did not see the person take them, I was in the country at the time the chambers were broke open; I came to town the day after, I came to town I think the 3d of January, I do not remember the day of the week; nobody sleeps in these chambers, they were all lost from one room; the great coat was hanging up, and they broke open a great many locks of desks and scrutoires, there was four desks all of them were broke open.

Q. As you had been in the country, had there been any body in them, or were they locked up? - They were chambers for business, there were clerks in them all the time I was out.

JOSEPH EVANS < no role > sworn.

I am a watchman to the society of Staple's Inn; just before nine o'clock the custom of the inn is, for the watchman to go up the stair case; and the outer door of Mr. Andree's chambers was then shut; I know his chambers he is an attorney; these chambers are No. 8, the first floor on the right hand, the door was shut as usual, I tried it.

Q. Was it broke open at any time, or that night? - It was not broke open as I know of, it was a window; when I went up the stair case, when I went up in the morning at five o'clock, before the chambers were opened, I found the door on a jar, I was in hopes it was left open by some body carelessly, I just peeped in and I saw all the papers scattered on the ground; I then went into every room, and the chambers, which consists of four; and I found every thing as in the first office; I had the key of Mr. Andree's chambers, my wife was the laundress to it; the desk in the first office stood wide open, then I went for the key, and got the key; and went back and double locked the door, and and did not go in again till my wife went with me.

Q. How do you suppose the persons got into these chambers? - Through the window, the shutters were broke.

Q. Was the shutters usually broke or was it broke in the course of that night? - In the course of that night; the screw that was in the middle I think was broke and a little hole was made at the bottom of the window.

Q. How did you find the window when you first discovered these chambers open? - I did not see it then, I did not discover it was broke till my wife was along with me, about an hour or an hour and a quarter afterwards, I have never found any thing of the things since.

- TREADWAY sworn.

I am a constable; I produce a dark lanthorn, a silver tea spoon, two silver sleeve buttons, &c. and I got them atNo. 5, Shaw's Gardens, the room belongs to the prisoner's husband, he is now in custody for this robbery, and was examined yesterday at Bow-street.

Not GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.