281. SARAH NEAL proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of March , two silver table-spoons, value 1 l. the property of James Brewer proceedingsvictim .

SUSANNAH JOHNSON < no role > sworn. - Mr. Brewer keeps the Swan and Two Necks, Lad-lane : On the 17th of March, the prisoner came and offered herself as a kitchen maid; we did not want a servant at that time; she said she wanted something to eat; in the mean time, the cook was going to give her something to eat, she stole these two spoons.

Q. Were you present at the time? - A. No; I am a relation to Mr. Brewer, I am come to prove the property; I saw her go into the kitchen to the cook.

- GOSS sworn. - I live with Mr. Pattmore on Ludgate-hill: On the 17th of March, the prisoner came and offered two spoons, and from their being engraved the Swan and Two Necks, Lad-lane, it gave me a suspicion that she did not come honestly by them. When I interrogated her whose property they were, she said she was sent by Miss Bolton, who lived at the Swan and Two Necks; I detained her until I sent there; they immediately came and said that she stole them.

WILLIAM KIMBER < no role > sworn. - I am a constable: On the 17th of March, I was sent for to the house of Mr. Pattmore; I took the prisoner into custody; the pawnbroker gave me these spoons, I have kept them ever since. (The spoons produced and identified by Miss Johnson.)

Prisoner's defence. The only reason made me do this, I was very much distressed for want of bread, I had been out of place these five months.

GUILTY , aged 19.

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

London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.