710. MARY BETT proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing three silk handkerchiefs, value 20 s. the property of William Tilsley proceedingsvictim , Aug. 14 .

WILLIAM TILSLEY < no role > sworn.

I am a linen-draper in Newgate-street . On the 14th of August when I came home in the evening the prisoner was in the shop; my wife was showing her some silk handkerchiefs, while she was looking over the handkerchiefs the apprentice gave me an item that he had some suspicion of the prisoner upon which I secured her, and she was sent up stairs and examined.

(The handkerchiefs were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)

- FLOYER sworn.

I am apprentice to Mr. Tilsley. I was in the shop, and saw the prisoner as she was looking at the handkerchiefs put some up her petticoats; I saw the end of a piece.

Mrs. TILSLEY sworn.

The prisoner came into our shop on the 14th of August in the evening and asked to look at some handkerchiefs, I showed her some; being suspected, she was taken up stairs and I saw her searched; there were nine handkerchiefs fo und some where about her legs.

PRISONER'S DEFENCE.

I was going to take these handkerchiefs up, they dragged me up stairs; so they stuck to my stocking and the maid said she pulled them out of my stocking.

GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.

[Branding. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]