74. JANE DOBEY proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 24th day of October last, one linen gown, value 5 s. one white linen apron, value 12 d. and two check linen aprons, value 12 d. the goods of Margaret Cameron proceedingsvictim , widow .

MARGARET CAMERON < no role > sworn.

I never saw the prisoner before the 25th of October, I know her now; on the 24th of October I went up stairs, about three o'clock, I found the club-room door open; my master keeps a public house; I saw an old gown of mine thrown down on the bed, I went to my box, and found one cotton linen gown gone, one white apron and two coloured aprons gone; they were in the box before, and the key in it, I had seen them in the morning; my master detected the prisoner on the 25th of October in the house; he said, you are the little girl I have been looking for all day, but had no suspicion she had done it.

Cross-Examination.

Was you present at this time? - No; she took us to the pawnbroker's, I went with her; she confessed she had pawned them to my master and all of us.

What pawnbroker was it? - Mr. Cates; I went there, and we found the things there, the gown and the three aprons.

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

Prisoner. A girl bigger than myself ordered me to do it.

BENJAMIN BAYLESS < no role > sworn.

I keep the King's Arms, Rolls Buildings, Fetter-lane ; on the 24th of October last, my servant informed me somebody got into her room, she lay in the club-room; the next day a neighbour asked me if I saw a little girl go through the passage, I said no; I went up stairs, and saw the prisoner there, up three pair of stairs; I asked her what she wanted, she said one Davis < no role > a bricklayer, they were at work on the outside of the house; I enquired amongst the bricklayers if there was a person of the name of Davis, they said no; I said to her, I have a suspicion you have robbed us, I threatened her a considerable time, she denied it; at last she owned she went up stairs with another girl, and took out the gown and three aprons, she confessed it; she said she and another girl; I made some enquiry about the other girl, she had been at service, and the people said she had not been out of the house that day; this girl confessed she had pawned them; I went to the pawnbroker's with my servant, and there they were found.

Court. What is the prisoner's age? - I am going on thirteen; my mother spins shoemaker's hemp, she lives in Church-yard Alley, Fetter-lane, and she has three children besides me.

What does she employ you about? - To wind the hemp.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

It was through the other girl that wanted the money.

(The girl's mother was called into Court, and said her daughter was thirteen years old, and that she had three other children.)

GUILTY .

Having been eleven weeks in confinement, was ordered to be privately whipped , and delivered to her mother.

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.