129. SARAH LAPPAGE proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 22nd of January , two petticoats, value 1 s. 6 d. a bed-gown, value 4 s. a quilt, value 12 s. a gown, value 12 s. a shift, value 4 s. and a cloak, value 15 s. the property of William Russel proceedingsvictim , in the dwelling house of William Shearman < no role > .

SARAH RUSSEL < no role > sworn. I am a married woman, my husband's name is William Russel < no role > , I live in Church-street, Bethnall-Green .

Q. Whose house is it you live in. - A. Mr. Shearman's.

Q. Does he live in the same house. - A. Yes.

Q. Have you the same door to the street with him. - A. No, I have a separate door to go up into my own apartment.

Q. You have a door from the street that belongs to you exclusively. - A. Yes, I have only one room.

Q. Do you know the prisoner. - A. Yes, she was a weekly servant, to do for me and my family till I could do for myself: she had only been with me a week and a day.

Q. Do you remember on Monday the 20th of January going any where. - A. I went out between ten and eleven o'clock to have my child christened; I left Sarah Lappage < no role > and my two children in my room.

Q. On your return home did you find Sarah Lappage < no role > there. - A. No, she was gone, I only found my two children there, one is four years old, and the other two.

Q. Did you discover any loss. - A. Yes, I missed my quilt from off the bed, my gown that was hanging on a nail, a silk cloak, a bed gown, two child's petticoats, a new shift from off the line, an old red cloak, and an handkerchief; it was all my husband's property but the silk cloak, which I borrowed of my mother; I have got two pounds to pay for it, I borrowed the cloak to go to church to have my child christened; unluckily I went out without putting it on.

- SIMMONDS sworn. I am a pawnbroker. I produce a silk cloak; the prisoner pledged it at my shop on the 20th of January, about noon, for ten shillings.

Q. What is it worth. - A. About sixteen or eighteen shillings to the owner.

- HOPHAR sworn. I am a pawnbroker's servant; I produce two children's petticoats and a bed gown, pledged by a woman (I cannot say as to the prisoner) for three shillings.

WILLIAM TINDALL < no role > sworn. I live at No. 23, Field-lane, Holborn; I produce a gown and a quilt pawned on the 20th of January for fourteen shillings by the prisoner.

Q. What are they worth to be sold. - A. About eighteen shillings.

(The property identified by the prosecutrix.)

DANIEL BISHOP < no role > sworn. I am an officer; the prisoner was brought to the office on the 23d of January; I searched her; in her pocket I found four duplicates, she said she had taken them through distress.

The prisoner said nothing in her defence, nor called any witness to character.

GUILTY, aged 17.

Of stealing to the value of thirty-nine shillings .

Confined Twelve Months in the House of Correction , and fined One Shilling .

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron Sutton.