709. JAMES WATTS proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing three linen shirts, value 10 s. the property of Elizabeth Jones proceedingsvictim This name instance is in set 2458. , widow , August 3d .

ELIZABETH JONES < no role > sworn.

I am a washerwoman . I had this linen to wash; they were in a basket in the kitchen on Thursday; the prisoner helped me down with the basket on Saturday night; I saw one of the shirts lie uppermost upon the basket; the prisoner lodged with me, there was nobody else there but the prisoner from that time.

FREDERICK WARREN < no role > sworn.

I am servant to a pawnbroker in the Minories. The prisoner pawned two shirts with me on the 27th of July, and another on the third of August. < no role > (They were produced in court and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I asked her to lend me two shillings; she said she had no money but lent me the shirts to pawn, and went with with me and stood at the door while I went in and pawned them, and she had most of the money I pawned them for.

To Jones. Did you ever give this man leave to pawn the things? - No; so far from it I was very unhappy at losing them, and suspected an innocent person of taking them; I never pledged a thing in my life.

(The prisoner called one witness who gave him a good character.)

GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.

[Branding. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]