Saturday 10 Apr 1819 (p. 4, col. 1-6) GAOL DELIVERY. [continued] SHOP LIFTING. MARY ORR, the wife of William ORR, late of Carlisle, labourer, charged upon oath with feloniously stealing in the shop of George BUCKHAM, of Whitehaven, on the 27th of March last, ten pair of leather gloves. Mr. COURTENAY, on the part of the prosecution, detailed the facts of the case. The prisoner, he said, was indicted for the capital offence, known by the familiar term of shoplifting. She resided at Whitehaven, and was or is a milliner or dress-maker. On the 27th of March she went to the shop of the prosecutor, accompanied by her mother and a young man, and asked to look at some gloves. They were shewn accordingly, the young man purchased a pair, and went away, leaving the prisoner and her mother in the shop.-Mr. WESTRAY, Mr. BUCKHAM's apprentice, in opening the gloves, found a pair in a parcel which did not belong to that lot, and in the mean time laid them on the outside of the proper parcel intending to put them into it as soon as disengaged. The prisoner now asked to see some blankets, which, most probably, she knew the young man would have to fetch down stairs. He brought her a pair, but these would not do; she now would have a single blanket, and the shopman was again sent off to the wareroom. She at last bought a blanket and a small piece of calico, which were formed into a parcel, and the prisoner took it away with her. Sometime after she was gone, the parcel of gloves on which the pair had been laid, was missing. Mr. WESTRAY went to the prisoner's house in Tangier-street and enquired if the gloves had not been sent there in the parcel; he was sure that they had not, but he wanted to see if he could meet with them. The prisoner denied that the gloves were there. JACKSON the constable was sent for, and he requested to search the house without a search-warrant; this, the prisoner resolutely refused, and JACKSON was about to leave the house for the purpose of getting the requisite warrant, when the prisoner's brother, with an honest feeling, insisted that JACKSON should search. There was a locked box in the room belonging to the prisoner: the constable requested the key, which she declined yielding up. Her brother then got a hammer, determined to break open the box; on which the prisoner produced the key and suffered the box to be opened: in it the lost parcel of gloves was found. The prisoner then said that she found the parcel on the shop floor, and brought it away.-These facts were proved in the clearest manner by Mr. WESTRAY, Mr. BUCKHAM's apprentice. But the capital charge fell to the ground, on account that three other young men who were in the shop refrained to come forward and swear that they did not see the prisoner take the parcel; this, in point of law, was necessary to render the offence, privately stealing. The Jury, under the direction of his Lordship, found the prisoner Guilty of stealing, but not privately in a shop. After an impressive admonition she was sentenced to be transported seven years. The prisoner bewailed her fate in a loud and most heart-rending manner. She is pregnant, but it appeared that her husband has not lived with her for some time. [to be continued]