869. ELIZABETH M'DONALD proceedingsdefend was indicted for that she, at the General Sessions< no role > of the Peace, holden for the County of Middlesex, on the 1st of June, in the 53d year of his Majesty's reign, was tried, and convicted upon an indictment against her, for that she, on the 22nd of May, in the year aforesaid, one piece of false and counterfeit money, made to the likeness and similitude of a good sixpence, unlawfully did utter to one Mary Russell < no role > , spinster, and that she had about her at the time, one other piece of counterfeit money, and coin, made to the likeness and similitude of a good sixpence; it was therefore ordered that she should be in New Prison Clerkenwell for the space of one year, and to find sureities for good behaviour for two years to come; that she afterwards on the 7th of October , one piece of false and counterfeit money, made and counterfeited to the likeness of a good shilling, unlawfully did utter to William Kilsbey proceedingsvictim , she knowing it to be false and counterfeit .

JOSIAH GILL SEWELL. I am clerk to the Solicitor of the Mint. I produce a copy of the record of the conviction of the prisoner. I examined it; it is a true copy.

(Read.)

WILLIAM BEEBY < no role > . I am the keeper of New Prison, Clerkenwell. I knew the prisoner very well; I was present when she was convicted in June sessions, 1813, of being a common utterer of counterfeit money; she was ordered to be imprisoned in New Prison Clerkenwell, one year, and to find sureties. She suffered her punishment. I have no doubt of person at all.

AMELIA BAILEY. I am the wife of a grocer, in Gray's-inn-lane. On the 7th of October, about six o'clock in the evening, the prisoner came to my shop, she asked for a quarter of an ounce of tea and half a quartern of sugar; it came to three-pence; she gave me a shilling; I looked at the shilling, and perceived it to be a bad one. I gave it her again, and told her to go away.

WILLIAM KILSBEY < no role > . I keep the Poacock public-house, in Gray's-inn-lane. On the 7th of October, between six and seven o'clock, the prisoner came into my house, she asked for a glass of gin; she gave me a shilling; I looked at it, and said, it was a bad one, and put it down by the side of her. My wife took it up. I am quite sure it is the same. My wife then said, that woman brought bad shillings one day last week. I then said, she is a smasher, she shall not smash no more here. She then attempted to run away; I catched her by the arm. She threw a shilling from her hand directly on the ground.

Q. Had you seen what she did with the shilling that she took off the counter - A. She was never out of my sight. I saw her take up the shilling off the counter; I saw the shilling that she offered me in payment; I saw her hold it in her hand up to the time of her throwing it away. I saw the shilling that she dropped; that was the shilling she had offered to me. Mr. Loveday picked it up, and gave it me; I knew the shilling perfectly well; it had two marks, like C upon it. She had no other shilling then that, that I know off. I sent for Dickens, the officer. Dickens searched her before me. I delivered the shilling to the officer, after I had put a mark upon it. I told Dickens to search her mouth; he searched her mouth. She appeared to all that were present, to be trying to swallow something. She would not let him look into her mouth; she made a desparate resistance when he endeavoured to look into her mouth.

JAMES LOVLDAY < no role > . I am a weighter in the Custom house. I was at Mr. Kilsbey's on the 7th of October, I saw the prisoner drop a shilling; I picked it up. I gave it to the landlord; he marked it, and gave it to the officer.

SAMUEL DICKENS < no role > . I am an officer of Bow-street. I was sent for on this occasion. I took the prisoner into custody. When I went into the bar, Mr. Kilsbey said, do you know this woman; I told him I did; I had taken her once before, and she had then a twelvemonth confinement. I searched her, and found on her one bad shilling in her pocket. This is the shilling I found in her pocket, and this is the shilling the landlord gave me; I have kept them separate.

Prosecutor. This is the shilling that was picked up, and that she offered to me. I put a W. upon it; I was going to put W K upon it, I thought W would be sufficient.

Dickens. She fought a great deal to prevent me from taking her. I put my finger in her mouth; she had something in her mouth, that she swallowed; I tried to make her bring it up; she would not. I know the prisoner well; she knew me as soon as she saw me. I also found three shillings and five pennyworth of halfpence all by themselves in her pocket.

Mrs. Bailey. The tea and sugar came to three-pence.

Mr. Kilsbey. The gin came to two-pence. The Peacock public-house is about one hundred and fifty yard apart.

JOHN NICOLL < no role > . I am one of the moniers in his Majesty's Mint.

Q. Look at the shilling uttered in question - A. It is a counterfeit. The other is also a counterfeit; they are both counterfeits.

Prisoner's Defence. Please your honour, these two men when they took me before, a woman brought me the bad money; these men came and took me for offering bad money. I am a poor desolute woman. If you are going to hang me, hang me out of the way at once, and do not use me in this manner; I had two one-pound notes that Mr. Beeby gave me,which they took from me, and then they pumped upon me.

GUILTY - DEATH , aged 68.

First Middlesex jury, before Lord Ellenborough.