1. CATHERINE JOHNSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 2d of October last ten pounds weight of cheese, value 3 s. 4 d. the goods of Thomas Hilton proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS HILTON < no role > sworn.

I am a cheesemonger , I live in Whitechapel ; on the 2d of October I lost some cheese out of my shop, my servant told me of it; I know nothing further, only the property being mine.

JAMES BAKER < no role > sworn.

I was in the prosecutor's shop, on the 2d of October the prisoner and two other girls came into the shop.

Court. Did you see the prisoner come in? - Yes, with two other girls; they asked for a quarter of a pound of sixpenny butter, and a quarter of a pound of cheese; when I had weighed it, they would not have it; as soon as they were gone I missed the cheese; it was in the shop, about the middle, on a pile of cheeses; then I pursued them, and in the next street I caught hold of one of the girls, and she had not got the cheese; I slipped back to another, which is the prisoner, and found the cheese on the ground; she was leaning over it, and her cloak covering it.

How long was this after she had quitted the shop? - Not two minutes.

She had taken off her cloak? - The cloak was on the cheese on the ground; I took the cheese and the girl.

The cheese produced and deposed to by Mr. Hilton, being marked.

PRISONER.

I have nothing to say, I have witnesses.

The prisoner brought two witnesses, who gave her a good character.

NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .