The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-04-09 00:00:00

STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.

Elizabeth Doyle, spinster, aged 21, was indicted foe stealing
from the house of George CoMasai, upholsterer, of Cheyne-street,
Bedford-square, 29 silver spoons, and various other articles, his
property, to the value of 101.
The prisoner, it appeared. had been living in the service of Mr.
Collinson about a month, when, on the evening of the 27th January,
after bringing up tea, she decamped with the articles in question,
which had been deposited in a drawer of the prosecutor's bed-mono,
and where they had been all seen by the prosecutor's wife at the
hour of dinner on the day above-mentioned. In about a fortnight
after, information was received that the prisoner was at Kingston-
upon-Hull, and then in the house of a Mrs. Shaw, with whom she
had taken lodgings ; she was at length apprehended.
Robert Dawson, the constable at Kitqgston-Hull, proved
his having apprehended' the prisoner, and taken out of the chaff of
the bed on which she lay, three parcels of plate, which he produCed,
and which Mrs. Collinson identified as her husband's property.
The plate, consisting of spoons, wins-funnel, small tankard,
forks, due., maned to be fully worth the amount mentioned in the
indictment.

The prisoner, upon being called upon fbr her defence, put in s
written paper, which stated that she had given notice of quitting
to her mistress two days before; that she did not know the value
of what she had taken; that she took it for the purpose of enabling
her to get to Ireland; and that bearing her brother was in Hull.
she went there from an anxiety to see him, and that she had no
other means of paying the expenses of her journey.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and •
The Jury almost immediately found the 'Guilty.
The Lox CHIEF JUSTICE called Mre. Collinson up, and
asked if she had taken the prisoner without a character?
Mrs. Collinson replied, that she had no better character than the
recommendation of their porter's wife; but that since the commit-
'ion of the theft she had inquired about her in the place where she
last lived in Hampstead, and learned that she had lived there for
two months, and conducted herself with strict propriety.
Mr. Collinson recommended her to mercy on that ground.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, after remarking that prosecutote
should not strain their consciences by these continual suggestions,
but leave these things in the hands of those whose duty it wee to
attend to them, and by whom every thing fitting would be done.
expressed his intention to take a note of the recommendation.
rhe jurisoner, s elecent-looking young woman, trembled exces-
sively during the trial, and at its conclusion was led away appa-
rently overwhelmed with emotion.
Mary Punchy's, aged 61, was indicted for stealing two pair oi
trowsers, value 17e., the property of her employer, Mary Chid!
The prisoner, had been employed to work for the prosecutor, sal
made noweem for a military clothier, and having privately taken
away two pail of trowsers which were brought home finished, was.
upon attenipting to sell them in Monniouth-atrett, stopped seal
apprehended.
up, took occasion to eulogise ia
Mr. Justice Pale, in summing
strong terms the conduct of the Monmouth-street trader.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
CUTTING AND MAIMING.
Oriaialf. August. a gardener, aged Cti, was indicted under Loot
Ellenbotough's Act, for cutting and maiming Thomas Lewis, with
intent to kill and murder him.
Mr. BRODERICK shortly stated the case for the preeestket..
Thelon Lewis, the prosecutor, deposed that the plusher 'NW he

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