374. SARAH ENGLISH proceedingsdefend , HANNAH HOG proceedingsdefend , and ELIZABETH DEAN proceedingsdefend were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 2d of June , a silk handkerchief, value 2d. seven guineas and half a guinea, and four shillings, in monies numbered, the goods and monies of John Miller proceedingsvictim , privately from his person .

JOHN MILLER < no role > sworn.

I was going along Winfield-street, Whitechapel -

Q. What day of the week? - I cannot say.

Q. What day of the month? - I cannot say.

Q. In what month? - I cannot recollect the month.

Q. How long ago? - Better than three months ago; it might be about six o'clock in the evening.

Q. Was it quite light at that time? - Yes; I picked up one of these young girls, I forget her name, I believe it is Deane; I went with her to Mrs. English's house, and there I was robbed of this money.

Q. In what manner were you robbed? - I cannot say, I was so much in liquor.

Q. Are you a married man or single? - A married man.

Q. You see the danger of getting into liquor? - Yes, I was very much in liquor, and I cannot say how I was robbed.

Q. Are you sure that that is the woman that you went home with? - Yes, I was sober enough to know that is the person.

Q. Was you sober enough to know that English was there, that kept the house? - Yes, she kept the house.

Q. Was Hogg there? - Yes. I see her there.

Q. Did you go to bed in the house? - Yes, I went to bed with myself.

Q. Were you undressed? - Yes, I lost seven guineas in the house, but I cannot tell how I lost it.

Q. Did you go to bed as soon as you went into that house; you went in at six o'clock you say? - Yes, but I cannot tell what time I went to bed.

Q. Were you sober enough to know at the time you went into the house, that you had this silk handkerchief, and this money about you? - Yes, I was sober enough to know that, because I pulled it out; the money was in my breeches pocket, all loose.

Q. When had you seen it last, before you picked up this young woman? - I see it at the public house in Winfield-street , I don't know the sign.

Q. Had you spoke to any other woman coming along? - No, I had not spoke to any to my knowledge.

Q. Had any other woman been about you? - Not to my knowledge, I cannot say being in liquor.

Q. Did you ever recover any of your money? - Yes, two guineas, which I tied up in the handkerchief.

Q. What happened to you, that made you discover that the property was missing? - I recollect myself being in a strange room when I awaked.

Q. Were either of these women in the room? - No, neither of them at all; when I awaked I got up and dressed myself and went out, I don't know what time, I was in liquor then almost.

Q. Did you have the people taken up? - Yes, the people were taken up.

Q. Did you describe them? - Yes, I took the man to shew him them, I could not give him much description of them; I found two at the house, Mrs. English and Mrs. Hog.

Q. Were they searched? - I am not certain whether the officer searched them or no, I cannot say.

Q. Did you recover any property at that time? - No, the first money that I recovered was before; they did not rob me of all at first, I had some left after the first time they robbed me, I had two guineas, and I tied it up in my handkerchief for safety, and then afterwards the handkerchief and money and all were gone, but how I cannot say.

Q. When did you ever recover any of this money? - I recovered none that I lost first, but I recovered the two guineas of Deane afterwards, I kept that and spent it.

- GRIFFITHS sworn.

About half past eleven, on the second of June, I apprehended these women; I searched Sarah English and Hannah Hog < no role > , and Deane, I found nothing on the two first, the last I apprehended in another house, up a two pair of stairs, from under the bed where she had run under, and the said here is half a guinea, and she said that was all she had about her.

Q. Did you shew that to the prosecutor? - Yes, but he could not swear to it.

SARAH BOOTH < no role > sworn.

Q. Do you live in the house with these people? - No, but I was in the house at the time the gentleman came in with this girl; they asked me to go fetch something to drink; they came to ask for the use of the room; I asked for sixpence, and the gentleman gave me the sixpence; I went down stairs, and after I had been down stairs for some time, Elizabeth Deane < no role > brought down two guineas and a half, and gave it to Mrs. English, and Mrs. English said that she would not have the money taken from the man, she would have it returned to the man, if the man made any piece of work about it, and she went up to return it.

Q. Did she say how she came by it? - No.

Q. You know that she returned it? - Yes.

All three not GUILTY .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.