220. (M) Sarah, wife of Thomas Hubbard proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing one linnen-gown, value 13 s. one cloth-coat, value 12 s. one linnen-waistcoat, value 6 s. and one pair of cloth-breeches, value 4 s. the property of John Bradley proceedingsvictim , July 1 .

John Bradley < no role > . On the first or second of July, I lost the goods mentioned in the indictment,[mentioning the particulars.]

Q. Did you ever find them again?

Bradley. I found the gown in Hannah Dawson's shop, she keeps a cloaths-shop in Johnson's-Change, I never saw the other things since.

Q. Was the prisoner seen near your premises about the time you missed the things?

Bradley. No, not to my knowledge.

Mary Bradley < no role > . I am wife to the prosecutor, the things mentioned in the indictment were all lost in the morning before I got up; we live in the back-room, and they were taken out of the fore-room.

Q. What reason have you to suspect the prisoner?

M. Bradley. The cloaths-woman that bought the gown brought the prisoner to me, and said she bought it of her.

Mary Mason < no role > . I lodge in the prosecutor's-house, Mrs. Bradley called up to me, and said, she believed she had lost all her things. I came down, and we went into Rosemary-lane, to see if we could find them. We could not find any thing of them. The next day I went again, and found the gown hanging up at Mrs. Dawson's. I knew it well, and asked her the price of it; she said fifteen shillings. Then I went and told Mrs. Bradley. We went there the next day, and Mrs. Dawson said it was gone. Then we got a warrant, and searched the house, and found she had carried it upon another person's premises. Then she said, the reason she did it was, she saw me lift up my hands when I saw the gown, upon which she suspected it was stolen.

Hannah Dawson < no role > . I bought this gown of a man and woman that came to my shop to ether; the man said it was his wife's gown, and she lay in, and it had been in pawn, and the pawnbroker had advertised to sell off in fourteen days.

Q. Is the prisoner at the bar the woman that came to you with the man

H. Dawson. She is, she said the man was her brother they both told the same story.

Q. Which of them had the gown?

H. Dawson. The man had the gown.

Q. What did you give her or the gown?

H. Dawson. I gave her eleven shillings for it, and a pot of beer; she said it had been in pawn for nine shillings.

Q. What time did you buy the gown?

H. Dawson. I bought it on the Friday, and Mrs. Mason came on the Saturday.

Q. Did you know the prisoner before?

H. Dawson. No, I did not.

Q. Which received the money?

H. Dawson. The man did.

Prisoner's Defence.

My brother-in-law's wife lay in at that time; the child is since dead; he said it was his wife's gown, and I went with him to that house where he sold it.

For the Prisoner.

Sarah Douglass < no role > . I live in Shoreditch, I have known the prisoner fourteen years, she bears the best of characters.

Mary Thompson < no role > . I have known her eighteen years, she bears the character of a very honest woman; I have been much with her.

John Wood < no role > . I have known her twenty-three years, I never heard a misbehaved thing of her.

Acquitted .