148. CHARLOTTE SMITH proceedingsdefend was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Perry proceedingsvictim ; Ann Perry < no role > , and others of his family, being therein, about the hour of eleven in the forenoon, of the 24th of December , and stealing a pair of breeches, value 18s. and two waistcoats, value 3s. the property of Samuel Perry proceedingsvictim .

SAMUEL PERRY < no role > sworn. - John Perry < no role > is my father, we live at No. 9, Pell-street : On Tuesday morning, the 24th of December, I got up and left a pair of breeches and two waistcoats upon the bed, about seven o'clock in the morning; my mother stopped a woman with them in Wood-street; I was sent for about half past eleven o'clock to Guildhall, where I saw the clothes and the prisoner; my mother has had them ever since.

ANN PERRY < no role > sworn. - I am the mother of the last witness: I was in the lower room upon the ground-floor, about a quarter past eleven o'clock; I was cleaning the room, and a lodger in the two pair of stairs came down, and asked me if I had sent any body up to see Mr. Perry; and in consequence of what she told me I went out, and saw the prisoner run down the street; I pursued the prisoner into a coach-yard, in Wood-street; I laid hold of her by the skirt of her gown, and desired to see what she had got in her apron, and she refused till the officer came up; I found a pair of breeches, and two waistcoats, in her apron.

Q. What room is it your son sleeps in? - A. The two pair of stairs.

ELIZABETH NEWMAN sworn. - I lodge at Mr. Perry's: I saw the prisoner go up stairs; I was in my own room, up two pair of stairs, my room-door was open; I asked her if she was going up to see Mr. Perry, and she said, yes; she went down stairs again in about ten minutes, she went down very quick; she run out into the street, and I gave Mrs. Perry notice of it.

Samuel Perry < no role > . These are my waistcoats, and these are my breeches, they were left in the room.

Prisoner's defence. On Monday night, in the Christmas week, I met with Mr. Perry in Smithfield, and went with him and had some purl; and then he took me up into this room, and asked me to oblige him with my company for a quarter of an hour, and he would give me half-a-crown; he said he had no money, and desired me to call the next day; and he said I was come too soon, he had no money, and he gave me the things to pledge; it was not that young man, but the elderly man.

Q.(To Mrs. Perry.) Is there any elderly man lives in your house? - A. There is my husband, but he has been ill in bed these eight months.

GUILTY (Aged 21.)

Of stealing the goods, but not guilty of breaking and entering the dwelling-house.

Confined three months in Newgate , and whipped in the jail .

Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE.