449. ELIZABETH HARTFIELD proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 6th of July , thirty-nine guineas, two half guineas, a piece of foreign gold coin, value 1l. 16s. a cotton bag, value 1d. the goods and monies of John Linsted proceedingsvictim , in the dwelling house of John Clarke < no role > .

JOHN LINSTED sworn.

I was robbed the 6th of July, I lost thirty-nine guineas, two half guineas, and a half jole, worth about thirty-five shillings, and a small bag the money was in. I was coming down Holborn , it was on Sunday night, I met this woman and another one, and they asked me where I was going? I told them on board; they asked me if I would stay with them? I told them if they would let me go to bed I would. I had my money in my right hand waistcoat pocket; I am a seaman; I had been drinking a little, but I was not drunk; I know the person again, it was between eleven and twelve o'clock, I went to a place they call Black Boy-alley, to Mr. Clarke's house, a private house.

Q. Did the two women go along with you? - Yes, both women.

Q. Did you meet with any others by the way? - No, nobody. When I got to Mr. Clarke's, they shewed me a bed; I laid down, and both women laid down along side of me; I never pulled my clothes off, I fell asleep directly, and never waked till four o'clock in the morning, and they were both gone; I came out of doors, I did not know where to go, I had not a farthing in the world.

Q. When did you miss your money? - Directly as I awoke.

Q. When had you last felt your money, before you went with these two women? - About three quarters of an hour before that, when I stopped to buy some fruit.

Q. Where had you come from? - From Baldwin's-lane, Gray's Inn-lane, and I was going on board at Iron Gate.

Q. Who had you met with in the way before you met with these two women? - Nobody.

Q. < no role > What had you been doing at Gray's Inn lane? - I was acquainted with a young man there, and I changed half a guinea, in Baldwin's-court, to buy the children some fruit; this was about three quarters of an hour before I met these women.

Q. What did you do after you lost your money? - There was a man at the door, and he told me it was a very bad house; how came I to go there? and he took me to a constable; and I did not find any of them that day; I staid from going on board all that day, to look for them; in about a week after the constable found the prisoner; I never saw any money again, not the six and thirty shilling piece. I am quite sure the prisoner was one of them.

Q. You see nothing of the other woman? - No.

Q. < no role > Then you cannot tell whether this woman or the other took your money? - No, I cannot tell.

SAMUEL BLADEN < no role > sworn.

I was standing at the end of Black Boy-alley, and this woman and another wanted this sailor to go down this alley, it was about twelve o'clock, as nigh as I can guess; I knew both the women; I have been in search of the other ever since, but I cannot find her; I hear she has gone down to Fortsmouth; I am the patrol, I goes on there at nine o'clock; they seeing of me, they walked up the lane; he walked up the lane first, and they followed him. We took the woman last Sunday, in Eagle and Child-alley.

RICHARD WEALD < no role > sworn.

I am a constable. A man in sailor's clothes came to me, on Monday morning, and said, that he had been robbed by two women, of about forty guineas and half a jole; I asked him if he knew who it was? he said it was down in Black Boy-alley; says I, do you think you should know the people again? he said, he was sure he should know them both; says I, was you drunk? he said, he had been drinking a little; I asked him if he knew he had the money when he laid down with them? he said he felt it when he laid down. I searched about with him the whole day, but did not find either of them that day, but last Sunday I took the prisoner in the Eagle and Child-alley.

Prisoner. I never saw the man in my life before, till that gentleman came and took me out of my room, any more than any strange gentleman that is in this place.

Not GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before the Lord CHIEF BARON.