675. CAROLINE COOPER proceedingsdefend was indicted for burglariously stealing in the dwelling house of Mary Waylett proceedingsvictim on the 3d of October , a pocket book, value 6 d. two knives, value 1 s. two bodkins, value 6 d. a tooth pick case, value 1 s. six seven shilling pieces, two bank notes, value 2 l. each, and seven bank notes, value 1 l. each , the property of Mary Waylett.

MARY WAYLETT < no role > . I live in Turk street, Bethnal green ; I was there on the 3d of October last; I am a widow, I occupy the house; it is in the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal green.

Q. Did the prisoner at any time come to your house - A.She came on the 3d of October.

Q. Had you upon that day received any notes - A. I had, about twelve o'clock in the day received thirty pounds of a man in bank notes - two two-pound notes, and about ten or eleven one pound notes I brought home; the others I paid away; I cannot swear whether it was ten or eleven. I put the notes in a leather pocket book, and there were six or seven seven-shilling pieces; I put them in an iron hooped trunk in the chamber where I was sitting at supper, where I lodge myself; I locked the trunk, and I unlocked it again to shew Caroline Cooper < no role > a shawl, to know whether she could wash it.

Q. What time of the day did you put the pocket book in the trunk - A. About six o'clock.

Q. What time in the evening did this young woman come to ask for a lodging - A. Between seven and eight o'clock; she asked me for a lodging for a single person, if she could sleep with any body; I said I had a single woman lodger, and I thought she might sleep with her; her name is Elizabeth Black < no role > ; I thought it might help her to pay her rent. Accordingly I called Elizabeth Black, and she agreed the prisoner should sleep in her room. I had a beautiful India shawl, and I asked her if she could wash it.

Q. Was that in the trunk in which you had put the pocket book - A. It was; she looked at the shawl, and said she thought she could wash it very well.

Q. Did she take it out of the trunk - A. No, I took it out of the trunk, and I put it in again, and she sat down and supped a little mutton broth with me; the other young woman came and said she should sleep with her that night; accordingly she went down stairs to fetch some things, as she pretended, to sleep in. I suspected nothing till the next morning. A young woman came for me to pay her a pound note; I opened my trunk and said, Oh dear, my money is gone. I missed my pocket book, my notes, and seven shilling pieces.

Q. When did you next see the prisoner - A. I saw the prisoner that day, and I thought she behaved awkward. I saw her in the room where Black lived. She bought a great many fine things, and was dressed out like a lady.

Q. How soon afterwards was she apprehended - A. I applied at Worship street office for a search warrant, and on Friday the 7th of October she was taken to the justice in Worship street; and then they chose that I should look in again on the Monday, and there they convicted her to come to the Old Bailey.

Q. Did you ever find your pocket book again - A. Yes, Mr. Armstrong has it; she confessed having it.

Q. Did you find it, or Mr. Armstrong - A. I said to her, pray where is my pocket book; she said I will go and fetch it; I asked her this in her own room in my house; this was on Friday the 7th of October; - she took the pocket book out of a basket from a heap of rags.

Q. Who was by at the time she confessed - A. Mr. Armstrong, and the young woman Elizabeth Black < no role > .

Q. Did you find any of your notes - A. No; not one.

ELIZABETH BLACK. Q. Did you on the 3d of October lodge with Mrs. Waylett - A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember the prisoner coming to lodge in the same room with you on that night - A. Yes, Mrs. Waylett called to me about half after seven o'clock to come into her room; the prisoner was with her. Mrs. Waylett asked me if it was convenient for her to lodge with me; I said I did not know it was, but I would let her be there; then the young body said she would come in about half an hour; and she came back at the watch going ten; I never saw the young woman before; I was in bed. The next morning the young woman dressed herself, and I did not see the wearing apparel she had on; I had no candle; I did not see there was any alteration, no further than she was smart. On Friday the pocket book was found in the old lady's hamper, with some rags; Mr. Armstrong found it. The hamper was up in my room, with some rags belonging to Mrs. Waylett.

JOHN ARMSTRONG < no role > . I am an officer of Worship street; I have a pocket book; the girl wanted to go to this basket; by a question that came from Mrs. Waylett on Friday the 7th of October in Mrs. Black's room, in Mrs. Waylett's house, in the two pair of stairs. Mrs Waylett's lives in the other pair.

Q. Who took it out of the basket - A. I do not know whether it was her hand or mine, they were both in at once, but I believe my hand catched it before it came to the sight of the people; I thought the notes were there, but there was nothing but duplicates and receipts. This is the pocket book, I have had it ever since.

Q. to Mrs. Waylett. Look at that pocket book, do you know it - A. I do.

Q. Is that the pocket book in which your notes were put, and which you put in this iron bound box - A. It was.

The prisoner said nothing in her defence; called two witnesses, who gave her a good character.

NOT GUILTY .

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. justice Lawrence.