The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-27 00:00:00

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O 11) BAILEY,
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• Tue., day, September 26.
Jane Ilrozone and Margaret Smith were can.
rimed of steeling 30 yards of ribbon privately, in
the whop of George Gibbs, haberdasher, in White-,
chapel-road, on the 3d of August last. They
were both girls of rather interesting appearance.
An old woman, named Sarah Gold, near 7')
years of age, was indicted for stealing ten batik
notes, value 51. each, from Tobias Solomon, on
the 25th 1. July last.
The evidence stated, that the Prosecutor being
in the house of a publican, stained Stevens, in
Clare-market, he dropped those notes, and the
Prisoner was seen to pick them up; but when
.afterwards charged %vial the circumstance, she to-
tally denied it ; but, on the sun of the Pr►secuto►r
having afterwards, with the nid of a Constable,
searched the lodgings and person of the Prisoner,
a part of the notes lost gas found there.
The Ju►y found this Prisoner Guilty of petty
larceny.
Michael Mordecai, a Jew, about 18 years of
age, was indicted for privately stealing from the
person of Angelo Afajura, a Portuguese seaman,
on the 26th of Aug. last, in the Minurics, `261.
in Bank notes.

The Prosecutor, whi gave his testimony
through the medium of an interpreter, stated,
that he was walking with a friend through the
Minorite, having a few ?Mimics before received
his pay, which he put into the pocket of his
jacket ; the Prisoner cause up and picked his
pocket of its contents, vs hich he handed to an ac.
complice, and ran otr. Witness pursued aced
seized him, and gave him in charge to a constal-le.
Several Jews appeared to give the Prisoner a
good character, but the Jury nevertheless tumid
the Prisoner Guilty. .
Mary ltrisbno, a miserable object, wall ilk.
dietexl fur stealing privately in the dwellrig-inswit
of Robert Ingrain, Siiakspeare.walk, Shadwell,
a silver watch, and a silk handkerchief, his pro.
-perty.
It appeared from the evidence, Elm< the Prisoner
had gone into the house to ask for a draught of
water, and while the Proveentor'i daughter went
for it, the Prisoner stale the at tJclus stated, and
they were found-on her persou.
Jury found her Gai.7.e of stealing, to the
value of 393. a bleb obviatvs the capital part of
the crime.
John If rood was indicter! for feloniously ambit.
zling sundry sums of money, which he, as a coati.
-dential clerk and servant, received for the account
of his employer, Wdliain Smith, livery stable.
keeper, in Cerzon.rlreet, May.fair.
It appeared front the ecideace of Mr. Smith,
that the Prisoner hail been some years in his ser-
vice ; and that rd late, froia the general tardiness
in which his bills acre collected, he had sonic sus-
picion of h.' dishonesty; he therefore, at a ven-
ture, charged him with not having accounted for
the monies lie received. The Prisoner at that time
made hit obscrvaliei in aunovr ; but on Mr.
Smith's saying he would employ an Attorney to
enforce payment, he made several pretences to dis-
auade him, allaging that the money was all safe,
and that one Gentleman had gone to Portugal. In
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a short time afterwards tie Prisoner absconded,
and the day following, sent his employer a list of
the debts he had collected, and had mot accounted
for, amounting to near 6001. 011 examination,
however, Mr. Smith found he had nut specified
various other sums he had received ; and particu-
larly the bill of a Mr. Angelo, for 161. 105. and
that altogether the Prisoner had embezzled twelve
or thirteen hundred pounds. The prosecutionil
however, was founded upon tho 161. 10s. the
payment of which Mr. Angelo pruveil, and pro.
(Need the Prisoner's receipt for it.
The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty.
Warren was convicted of picking the
pocket of kir...John Jaco' Batiere, of a snuff_
box, on Thursday last, in the Strand, near Essex.
street.