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applied a dreadful name to me. I had ao more t
sey. ate
told them so. Prisoner said he must have more, Of e l
to my master, and expose me. I said if he would call upon me
in the evening I would get 45., and give them to him. He called.
and I gave them to him, when he said I must make it up 10s. I
replied, if he would come to-morrow, I would de so. Ile said,
" very well," and went away. My master Wes then out, but when
he came home, I told him exactly what had occurred while
he was absent. By his advice, I went to the Marlborough-street
Police-Office, and stated what had occurred. The prisoner
came to me about eleven o'clock the next morning ; when he got
I inside the house, I shut thealoor. Ballard, the officer, was then in
the house, secreted in the parlour. I held up two half-crowns
(which had been marked), and the prisoner took them. I wished
him to say what the money was for. He looked round in a MA.
picious manner, and said he only wanted to borrow them. I then
asked what he meant by what he had said the day before? He
said, never mind that." I pressed him much to tell me what
the money was for ; and he said, take the money back., and,
for tiod's sake, let tne out." When he found 1 would not take it
back, he laid it on the lock of the door. The officer then came and
tooklim4 I have seen the prisoner in company with Fennel, a
gentleman's servant. I was induced to part with my money, be-
close I was very much alarmed at what they accused me of, and as
I saw three men before me.
Cross-exmined by 111 r. Plittxtrs—l am not now in Mr. Timm.
tom's service. When the prisoner first called I was prevented from
giving the alarm by the other man cooling up. The whole affair
did not occupy above five minutes. I did not tell my fellow-ser-
yenta what had happened.
Nothing material was elicited in the course of the cross-
, examination.
Ballard, the Polk* Officer, corroborated the evidence of the
prosecutor respeating the last interview with the prisoner, when he
was armted.
Several witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner a good
character for honesty and propriety of conduct.
Mr. Justice BAT LZ y charged the Jury at considerable length ;
they retired to deliberate on their verdict, and after an absence of
an hour, pronounced the prisoner Guilty of stealing from the per-
son only, and Not Guilty of the capital charge.

Before the RECORDEII.and a Lorlidon Jury.
Joh* Smith was indicted for stealing an umbrella, value 31. 6d.
from the shop of George Payne.
The prisoner was found Guilty, but In consequence of his hay.
ing pleaded extreme distress as prompting him to the commission
of the offence, and also because of the recommendation of the
Jury to the merciful consideration of the Court, he was ssntenced
to one month's imprisonment.
Several other cases of larceny were tried.
NEW COURT.
Thomas Johnson, a boy about 14, was indicted for stealing, on
the 12th of November, twenty pounds of bed, value lbs. the
property of Mary Webb.
Mrs. 'Webb stated, that the prisoner came to her shop on the
day mentioned in the indictment and bought a biscuit. Two
minutes afterwards, she heard a noise in the shop, and on turning
round, perceived the prisoner going out of the shop. She
then missed the beef which had been lying on the counter. She gave
the alarm, and the prisoner was overtaken and brought back.
J. Dixon, n sailor, stated, that upon hearing the alarm given by
the lest witness, he pursued the prisoner, and saw him throw the
beef into a ditch.

The Jury found him Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to be
privately whipped and discharged.
Mary Clarke, a respectable.looking girl, was indicted for stealing
seven yards of cotton, belonging to Aleuts. Shoolbread and Cask,
of Tottenham-court-road. . . .

It appeared that the prisoner went into the prosecutor's shop,
and whilst he was %hewing her different articles, secreted the cotton
in question. The prosecutor missed it immediately, and it being
found upon her, she was given into custody. She received a most
excellent character. . _ _ _ _ _ _

One lady stated that she knew the prisoner's friends in Ireland,
and that they were highly respectable.
The Jury found her Guilty, but recommended her to mercy on
account of her excellent character, and their belief that this was her
first offence.