308. ELIZABETH SIMS proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 14th of February , a sheet, value 5 s. the property of Dennis Williams proceedingsvictim .

DENNIS WILLIAMS < no role > . I am a shopkeeper , 76, Red Lion-street, Holborn . On Friday the 14th of February, between twelve and one, the prisoner knocked at my door; I admitted her in myself; I thought she was a visitor to one of my lodgers; Ifound afterwards that she lodged with one of my lodgers. The servant girl, Elizabeth Monk < no role > , was sent up to wash her bed room, at two o'clock she was called to her dinner; between three and four o'clock, my house-keeper went into the room, she saw the bed was tumbled, she examined the bed, and found the sheet gone; I went up and saw a sheet gone, I went to the person in the next room, I asked her if she had any stranger there; she said no person but the prisoner, and she had gone out. I went in pursuit of the prisoner to the pawnbroker's, and on last Saturday I went to Mr. Page's shop, and identified the sheet.

- TAYLOR. I am shopman to Mr. Page, pawnbroker, Liquorpond-street. On the 14th of February, the prisoner pawned a sheet with me, I lent her three shillings upon it. I produce the sheet.

Prosecutor. It is my sheet, it is marked D. W. in two places.

ELIZABETH MONK < no role > . Q. Did you find your things - A. Yes.

Prisoner's Defence. I have no earthly friend to intercede for me, I beg for mercy.

GUILTY , aged 26.

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

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Baron Wood.