184. MARY BRATTLE proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a silk gown, value 14 s. a linen sheet, value 4 s. and a linen shirt, value 5 s. the property of William Pinchbeck proceedingsvictim , February 6th .

WILLIAM PINCHBECK < no role > sworn.

I am a painter in Oxford Road . The prisoner was my servant ; she lived with me six months. My wife missed some of my shirts, and suspecting the prisoner, while she was out, we searched the kitchen, and found a shirt behind a box, upon which we searched her bed-room, and missed the sheets and pillows off the bed. When she returned, I got a constable, and charged her with stealing the things, and asked what she had done with them. She owned that she had pawned a silk gown, a sheet, and a shirt. I found them, by her direction, at the pawnbroker's.

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

WILLIAM JORDAN < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Mr. Murphy, a pawnbroker, in Oxford-Road. The things produced were pawned with me by the prisoner. At the time she pawned the shirt she took out a pair of breeches of Mr. Pinchbeck's, which he has now got on. She pawned all the things in the name of Mary Hilton < no role > .

Are you sure the prisoner is the person who pawned the things at your shop? - Yes; she has pawned things several times, and taken them out again.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

My master owned me money. I could not get any money of him. My mistress gave me leave to pawn them till he paid me; then she said I might redeem them.

To Pinchbeck. Do you know whether your wife ever gave her leave to pawn them? Did you ever hear her say she gave her leave to pawn them? - No; she was very much surprised when she found it out.

GUILTY of stealing to the value of 10 d .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr.DEPUTY RECORDER.

[Whipping. See summary.]