306. SOPHIA TAYLOR proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a linen quilt, value 3 s. a pair of linen sheets, value 5 s. a linen chair cover, value 6 d. a brass candlestick, value 6 d. and a flat iron, value 6 d. the property of Charles Northen < no role > , the said goods being in a certain lodging-room let by contract by the said Charles to the said Sophia

CHARLES NORTHEN proceedingsvictim sworn.

I have a house in New Compton-street, Soho . I let a second floor furnished to the prisonerat nine shillings a week; the things mentioned in the indictment were in the room (repeating them). She lived in the lodging five or six weeks; she left it last Thursday. Suspecting that she had taken some of the furniture away, I opened the door with a key and found all the things in the indictment missing.

ROBERT ARTZ < no role > sworn.

I am a pawnbroker. I took in pawn the goods mentioned in the indictment; they were brought to me, at different times, by this little girl (Bird); she pledged them in the name of Catherine Bird < no role > , her mother. I knew her mother very well, or I should not have taken them in.

- BIRD called.

How old are you? - Fourteen and a half.

Do you know the nature of an oath? - I cannot say that I do.

Do you know whether it is a wicked thing to take a false oath? - It is a very wicked thing.

What will become of people who are so very wicked? - They will go to Hell.

(She is sworn.)

Did you pawn these goods with Mr. Artz? - Yes.

Who employed you? - That lady (the prisoner).

When did she employ you? - Not long after she was there.

Did she tell you whose goods they were? - I knew they belonged to the people of the house; she bid me pawn them in my mother's name.

(They were produced in court and deposed to by the prosecutor).

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I did not quit my lodging, nor did I intend it.

GUILTY B .

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.