549. MARY ANN ROBINSON proceedingsdefend , the wife of Thomas Robinson < no role > , was indicted for stealing, on the 21st of June , a cloth great coat, value 1 l. 5 s. a silver tea spoon, value 8 s. a pair of linen sheets, value 10 s. and two pair of silk stockings, value 5 s. the goods of Thomas Holroyd proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS HOLROYD < no role > sworn.

I am in no business; I lost these Articles; I live at No. 20, Gerrard-street, Soho ; and Mary Robinson < no role > was left in care of my house while I went into the country; I put her in to take care of my house; I first missed the things on Tuesday the 23d of July, the day I was going to return again, as I came to Town on the Monday, but it being a wet day I went to look for a great coat, and when I went to the spot where they were, there was never a one to be found; I naturally asked where my great coat was? she said she knew nothing at all about it; I said she must find them, or must have had improper people in the house, or must have made away with them; at ten o'clock at night she gave me an account it was pawned, and gave me the duplicate.

Q. Did she give you the duplicates of the other articles? - None but two great coats. I thought it was not a proper time of night to let her go out. When she got up in the morning I desired her to empty her pocket, for I was doubtful that she had got other duplicates; she pulled out her things, and in a pocket book, which she pulled out of her pocket, I found near twenty-five or thirty duplicates, five of which referred to my own property, and according to these duplicates I went to examine at three different pawnbrokers, and found the things.

(The duplicates produced.)

Prisoner. He promised me pardon if I would give up the duplicates

Prosecutor. I did, but then I did not know that I had lost any more than the two great coats.

ELEANOR HOLROYD < no role > sworn.

I am the daughter; I was not at home; I prove the property in one article.

JOHN FARMER < no role > sworn.

I am a pawnbroker's servant; I produce a cloth great coat, a pair of sheets, a silver table spoon, and two pair of black silk stockings; I took them into pledge of the prisoner at the bar, they were pledged some in the name of Hart, and some in the name of Bailey; all four were pledged at different times; the first a pair of sheets were pawned the 9th of July; the 12th of July a table spoon; the 13th of July two pair of stockings; and the 20th of July the coat. I asked her if they were her own? she said they belonged to Mr. Bailey, who lived in Swallow-street.

Court to Mr. Holroyd. How came you not to put the other articles in the indictment? - Because the pawnbrokers delivered them up.

(The articles produced.)

Thomas Holroyd < no role > . I know the spoon, it has W. B. on it; the great coat I have had about half a year; the sheetsare marked T. A. H. My daughter can speak to the stockings.

Eleanor Holroyd < no role > . I know this to be my father's stockings by a piece of silk put in at the heel; I footed it myself.

Prisoner. At the time I gave up the tickets the prosecutor promised me pardon. I should have had some witnesses here for to speak for me, but they did not know what day my trial was to come on.

GUILTY ,

Confined six months in the House of Correction , and fined 1 s.

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.