87. MARY CASEY proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 24th of December last, one leather trunk, value 10 s. two silk gowns, value 20 s. one linen gown, value 10 s. two cotton petticoats, value 6 s. one stuff petticoat, value 5 s. one muslin apron, value 12 d. two linen aprons, value 12 d. one gauze neck handkerchief, value 12 d, six shifts, value 6 s. one child's silk skirt value 1 s. one cotton skirt, value 6 d. one yard and a half of crimson stuff, value 6 d, one man's cloth coat, value 5 s. one silk waistcoat, value 10 s. one cloth surtout coat, value 3 s. one silk waistcoat, value 2 s. one piece of tambour for a waistcoat, value 5 s. two pair of velvet breeches, value 5 s. a tortoise-shell snuff-box, mounted with silver, value 3 s. one copper saucepan, value 6 d. two linen shirts, value 5 s. and two guineas in monies numbered; the goods and monies of Thomas Kirby proceedingsvictim , in the dwelling-house of Patrick Murphy < no role > : And CATHERINE CASEY proceedingsdefend , wife of William Casey < no role > , and CATHERINE CASEY proceedingsdefend the younger , were indicted for receiving the same goods, chattles and monies, well knowing the same to be stolen .

CATHERINE KIRBY < no role > sworn.

I live in the house of Patrick Murphy < no role > , my landlord he lives next door, my husband is abroad, I have the ground floor, and other persons live up stairs. I believe they have their own goods.

Court. How do you take your lodgings? - Yearly.

Court. Give an account of this robbery? - On Christmas evening, I was in the market, and when I returned, I found the lock of my room door broke open.

Court. There is only one common outside door to the house? - That is all, my Lord.

What was missing out of your room? - All I had, they took every halfpenny worth.

What were those things? - They were my wearing apparel, they were in a leather trunk.

Court. Describe them (the thing described as in the indictment.)

What ground have you for charging the prisoner with this robbery. - Elizabeth Smith < no role > saw Poll Casey < no role > with the trunk on her head.

Court. What time did you leave the house? - About five in the morning, I returned between ten and eleven at night, I stand at Covent-Garden.

Did you know the prisoners before? - Yes, I know them by being in the market.

ELIZABETH SMITH < no role > sworn.

I know the prisoner, I know nothing of the robbery, I was coming home from my day's work on Christmas Eve; I saw the trunk on Mary Casey < no role > 's head, I did not know it was a robbery till the next morning.

How near was it to Catherine Kirby < no role > 's house. - I suppose about as far from the door is down to the bottom of the yard.

What hour was it? - Between eight and nine in the evening.

HENRY RENSHAW < no role > sworn.

I took a silk gown on Christmas Eve, of Mary Casey < no role > , I lent her 5 s. on it, I am positive she is the woman, I knew her before.

(The gown produced and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)

RICHRD SWEET sworn.

Mary Casey < no role > , and the mother, and the youngest daughter brought these two gowns, two petticoats, a frock, and a cloak, and two pair of stockings, a table cloth, and two shirts. (These things produced and deposed to by the prosecutrix.) The things were brought at three different times, the first time about ten in the evening, and then the other two, about half an hour after each other.

Court. What sort of trunk was yours? - It was made of wood, but covered with leather; it was a lead colour.

Court to Smith. What sort of a box was it you saw the prisoner with? - I took it to be a trunk, I could but just see the glance of it on her head, I cannot be particular to the size of it, I do not know what it was made of, I think it was a hairy trunk, I never saw it before.

What size was it? - I do not know, it was a light coloured hair trunk.

DENNIS MACDONALD < no role > sworn,

I took the old woman, and searching her I found a guinea on her, and these cloaths which she said belonged to her daughter, a gown and a petticoat, and a cloak, they are quite new.

Court to Prosecutrix. You do not swear to that guinea? - No, my Lord.

PRISONER MARY CASEY < no role > 's DEFENCE.

I work very hard for what I have, my cloaths that he took from me I worked for very hard.

PRISONER CATHERINE CASEY < no role > 's DEFENCE.

Please you my Lord to grant me the favour of having my money which he took out of my pocket: I knew no more about it then the baby that sits in the womans arms that is out in the street.

PRISONER CATHERINE CASEY < no role > the younger's DEFENCE.

I have nothing to say. Macdonald the justice said he sent the little one down to trial, only to shew the court the nature of the case.

Court. How old is that child? - She will be ten years old the 29th of March.

MARY CASEY < no role > , GUILTY.

Of stealing, but not in the dwelling-house .

To be fined one shilling , and confined to hard labour twelve months in the house of Correction .

CATHERINE CASEY < no role > the Elder, GUILTY , Of receiving.

To be fined one shilling, and confined to hard labour two years in the house of Correction .

CATHERINE CASEY < no role > the Younger, NOT GUILTY .