1380. ANN PEARSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 28th of September , at St. Mary, Islington , one pepper-castor, value 1 l.; two watches, value 5 l.; seven silver spoons, value 3 l.; one ring, value 10 s.; one shawl, value 5 s.; one scarf, value 1 l., and one table-cloth, value 2 s., the property of Robert Dunell proceedingsvictim , in his dwelling-house .

MARTHA DUNELL < no role > . I am the wife of Robert Dunell < no role > ; we live at No. 3, Barnsbury-lane, Islington , and keep the house. The prisoner came into our service on the 15th of September, and on the 28th, about half-past four o'clock, she asked to go out to purchase a few articles, and never returned. She had given me no notice - and at five we missed the articles stated in the indictment. We had a very good character with her.

Q. What part of the house were the things in - A. The plate and table-cloth were in the kitchen; the scarf, shawl, and watches were in the bed-room. I saw all the plate safe at one o'clock, at dinner. I saw the watches safe within a day or two, and the shawl on Saturday, the 25th. On the Friday following I saw the prisoner at the Rainbow, public-house, at the top of our street. She surrendered herself to a constable there.

REBECCA POSTANCE < no role > . I live in Feathers-court, Gray's Inn-lane. My husband is a brass-founder. I have known the prisoner about four years - she lived three months at the corner of our court, and used to see men. On the 28th of September, about half-past five o'clock in the evening, she came to my house, and asked me if I couldpawn a table-cloth for her? She produced it to me, and I pledged it at Beauchamp's, at Holborn Bars, for 2 s.

Q. Did she produce any thing else - A. Yes, a shawl and scarf, which I pledged for her. She said she had some plate which she wished to sell out and out.

Q. As you knew her before, did you ask her how she got them - A. I asked her if they were own? she said they were her husband's.

Q. Did you pawn the things all at one place - A No, my Lord; I pawned the shawl for 5 s., and scarf for 8 s., the next day at Lee and Morritt's. I gave her the money.

Q. Did she show you the plate - A. No, my Lord; I saw a pepper-box in her hand on the 28th - she slept at my house that night. She was out all the next day. I went out with her to buy a box.

Q. Did you not go to a public-house with her - A. Yes, on the Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, we went to a young man there, she asked him if he would buy a watch? he said he had no money to buy it. Another man, who sat there, got up, touched her on the shoulder, and she went out with him - she returned in about a minute, and called me out. I and the young man who I was talking to, went with her and the other man to Walton's-court, she then gave a small bundle of things to the other man, he went away with it, returned in about a quarter of an hour, and called her aside - she told him to go back, and take it. What he said to her I do not know. He went, and returned in about five minutes, and gave her some silver - I heard it rattle. We went and had something to drink at another public-house, she paid for it, and we all parted. She went back to my house, and slept there.

Q. Is the man here - A. No, nor the man whom I knew. I do not know where he lives, his name is John Condon < no role > , and he is a pavior. I saw him last week.

ROBERT BROWN < no role > . I am a constable. I took Condon into custody, and have since seen him, and told him several times to come here; he was bound over, but is not here. On the Friday following the prosecutor sent for me to the Rainbow - I found the prisoner there - Mr. Dunell was asking her about the property, and said if she would give up the receivers and the property, he would forgive her.

ROBERT DUNELL < no role > . The prisoner sent for me to the public-house, and expressed her contrition for what she had done.

Q. Had you made any promise or threat to her - A. I had told a man that if she would give up the property, and the receivers, I would forgive her, and that man brought her to me at the public-house; she said she would accompany me to a house in Holborn. I went with her to Postance's, and on Postance's person we found four duplicates. I went to the pawnbroker's, and found a table-cloth pledged at Beauchamp's in Holborn.

ROBERT BROWN < no role > re-examined. I went to the pawnbrokers with Mr. Dunell after we had got the duplicates, and found a shawl at Lee and Morritt's, a ring at Fleming's, and a scarf at Cotterell's

JAMES FRANKLIN < no role > . I am shopman to Mr. Flemming, who is a pawnbroker, and lives in Fleet-market. On the 29th of September I took a ring in pledge of a man in the name of Smith.

Q. Were you applied to about it - A The officer requested us to attend at Worship-street office about a week or ten days ago. I did not go as we are frequently desired to attend, and then are not wanted.

JOHN POWELL < no role > , I am shopman to Mr. Cotterell, who is a pawnbroker. I have a scarf pledged with me by Postance for 13 s., in the name of Brown, on the 29th of September. I never saw her before.

Q. When did the constable come to you - A. A few days after, and requested us to attend at the office next day. I made a memorandum of it, but it quite slipped my memory.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

The prisoner made no defence.

GUILTY. - DEATH .

Recommended to Mercy .

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Park.