888. MARY ANN TAYLOR proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, from the person of Thomas Dalwin proceedingsvictim , a pocket-book, value 6 d. three 2 l. notes, and two 1 l. notes , his property.

THOMAS DALWIN. Q. Did you lose a pocket-book any time containing two two pound notes, and two one pound notes. - A. On the 9th of October , I went into the King's Arms, the corner of Golden Lane, I had not been in there a few minutes before David Crossely < no role > came in, he asked for gin, we came out of there, I said I am going to Leather Lane; David Crossely < no role > and Mary Ann Taylor < no role > went with me to Saint John Street, I and Crossely went into the King's Arms, St. John's Lane, Mary Ann Taylor < no role > and her sister followed us, we stopped there about half an hour, and just as we were coming out the girls tapped at the window, they said they were going to Sadler's Wells, we came out, I wanted to get David Crossely < no role > home.

Q. Did you go with these girls towards the New River. - A. They were going to Sadlers Wells, and I did not want to go home without him. Crossley is my brother in law, I wanted to get him home to his wife, he said he should do as he liked. When we came to Sadlers Wells there was no admittance, we came down to Aylesbury Street , the girls said we are going to have some alamode beef, David Crossley < no role > and Priscella Taylor went in, Mary Ann Taylor < no role > came behind me and look out the pocket-book, she ran off with it. I am sure she is the person that put her hand into my pocket and took out the book, I felt her hand in my pocket, I called after her when she ran away.

Q. What had you in the book. - A. Three two pound notes and two one pound notes. The pocket was brought back, not the notes.

HENRY DALWIN < no role > . Mr. Robinson brought me the book at ten o'clock the next morning. Mary Ann < no role > Taylor me she had spent three pound of the money.me the pocket-book, she is not here. I examined it, there were only memorandums in it. I delivered the book to Dalwin.

JOHN LONDON < no role > . I am a silversmith. Mr. Dalwin called on me the next morning, he told me he had lost his pocket-book and his notes, and requested me to search the lodgings of Mary Ann Taylor < no role > , she cohabited with his brother-in law, he said and he conceived it a joke. I found her in Green-hill Rents, she was coming out of a house. The prisoner said he gave her the pocket-book, I said it was a likely matter, she said what is that to you, are you an officer, she did not care a shifting for him, he might do his worst.

CHARLES COOK. I am a constable. I apprehended the prisoner up stairs at a gin shop, in St. John Street. Dalwin said she was the woman that had taken his pocket-book, she was very much intoxicated at the time, she said she bought these things with part of the money. I searched her and found only a shilling and a few halfpence.

Prisoner's Defence. My lord and gentlemen of the jury, the awful predicament I now stand in, has so agitated my mind and worked upon my feelings, that I have scarce power to appear before your lordships and this honourable court. On the night of the 9th of October, I in company with my sister were met by the prosecutor between two and three in the afternoon, he said we should have something to drink, we went into the house at the corner of Golden Lane, during the time we were drinking in the house, the brother of the prosecutor came in, we left this house and went to the Britannia, we all were drinking freely. I and my sister went home to fetch my bonnet, to go to Sadlers Wells, it being full we could not get in, we went to the John of Jerusalem, the prosecutor took his watch and his book out of his pocket. I put it in my bosom, I kept it safe, the prosecutor requested me to go home with him, finding myself unwell I returned him his book and his watch and went home.

Q.(to Prosecutor.) Did you lose your watch. - A. I never had it out of my pocket.

GUILTY , aged 23.

Confined six Months in the House of Correction , and fined 1 s.

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.