Crown Court.
lionert flurtoa ant illary Burion, his wife, stood indicted tbr stealing, in the dwelling-house of Joseph Cheetham, of louth, vic- tualler, on the 21st of July last, one brown Holland purse, contain- ing 39 sovereigns, three hallf-sovereigns, one guinea, and a quantity of r,l. notes. The wife of thc prosecutor said that hier husband kept a public- house at Louth. 'IThe property in question was kept in a box under the bcl. On this particular day prosecutor and his wife went out, leaving the box quite safe; btt, on their return in the evening, it was found broken open, and voitled of its contents. The fe- male prisoner in the mean time had been secn going out of the house. They were afterwards traced to a shop in the town offering the larger money to change. Subsequently, upon theirapprehension, the purse Was conveyed away to a youniger aister of the female pri- soner, -who hid it in a garden. The husband was not implicated un- til after the robbery, and the indictment did not charge him with beig a receiver of the stolen money. The Jury found the wife guilty-Death; and acquitted the hl)0-nn1 CROWS COTrTT.