379. ELIZABETH BROWN proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 6th day of July , a cloth coat, value 21 s. and other wearing apparel, the goods of Susannah Tomlins proceedingsvictim , in her dwelling-house .

SUSANNAH TOMLINS < no role > sworn.

I am a widow , on the 6th of July, I lost a cloth coat, a jean waistcoat, a pair of velveret breeches, &c. they were taken out of a one pair of stairs closet, by a false key; the prisoner lived as servant with me, took them, as I suppose; I had been out, and left her alone in the house; on my return the street door was shut and the window fastened down, and a person got in at the window, and let me in; I went up stairs, supposing she had robbed me, and found this key in my closet-door.

JAMES FLINT < no role > sworn.

I took the coat, the waistcoat, and breeches from the prisoner.

(Produced and deposed to.)

The coat, value 1 l. 1 s. the waistcoat, value 5 s. the breeches, value 8 s.

GUILTY .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]

[Fine. See summary.]