Saturday 10 Apr 1819 (p. 4, col. 1-6) GAOL DELIVERY. [continued] JANE JACKSON COWEN, aged 21, charged with feloniously stealing, taking, and carrying away one linen sheet, the property of Ambrose BOUSTEAD of Carlisle, innkeeper. The details of this case laid open a scene of a most painful description. The prisoner is a girl of the town, and a well-known offender, having been tried at the last city sessions in conjunction with a companion, named Margaret GRAHAM, who was likewise under confinement for the present offence. A boy, named JOHNSON, only sixteen years of age, also implicated on this occasion, was admitted King's evidence. GRAHAM was not put to the bar. Mr. ARMSTRONG, for the prosecution, called the following witnesses.- Margaret BOUSTEAD sworn. Her husband's name is Ambrose BOUSTEAD, and he keeps a public-house in Scotch-street, Carlisle. She recollects prisoner coming to her house in December last, in company with another girl, named Margaret GRAHAM, and a boy. The boy asked for liquor, which Mr. BOUSTEAD refused. He put down 6d. upon the table, and insisted upon having some as well as the other people. Witness was employed in mending a sheet; and when she afterwards left the room to put the children to bed, she placed this sheet upon the table. When she came back the sheet had disappeared, and COWEN and the boy had left the house. GRAHAM still remained talking with some men in the kitchen who had given her a glass of ale. Witness has never seen the sheet since. John JOHNSON sworn. I am between 16 and 17 years of age. I have been at sea, and my parents live in Carlisle. I know that I have taken an oath to tell the truth.-I recollect going to the house of Ambrose BOUSTEAD in company with the prisoner and Margaret GRAHAM. Mrs. BOUSTEAD was in the parlour when we first went in, with her husband. I asked for a quart of ale. Mr. and Mrs. BOUSTEAD both said they would not draw any. I insisted upon having some, sat still upon the chair, and produced sixpence, which I laid upon the table. Jane Jackson COWEN saw the sheet upon the table and said to me, "You b-, can't you pin that?"-that was take it. I went and got the sheet off the table and gave it to COWEN in the house, just at the door. They made me drunk before I went to BOUSTEAD's. After we went out of the house, COWEN went one way and I another. I was so drunk that I could not stand, and my brother afterwards picked me up near the Scotch gates and carried me home. Court.-You knew what she meant, then, when she said, Can't you pin that?-Yes. We had been drinking in Caldewgate, near the Bridge-end, at Joe GRAHAM's, and were also in a liquor shop in Rickergate. I went with them first about five o'clock. We stopped at Joe GRAHAM's about half an hour, where we got pints of ale warm, with glasses of rum in it, for which the lasses paid. We had at the liquor shop, either one noggin of rum or two, I can't tell which. I had had no liquor before we went to GRAHAM's. Prisoner.-Where was it you went to sell the sheet after you stole it? Witness,-I went no where to sell the sheet: I never had it in my possession after it was stolen. Lydia SHIELDS deposed that the prisoner lodged at her house in December last, and was taken in custody there. One night, about three weeks before she was taken, she brought a sheet home with her, and witness insisted that she should take it away immediately, well knowing that she had not one of her own. She accordingly took it away: it was an old sheet. John KIRK, the constable, apprehended the prisoner the Sunday after the last sessions. He told her what she was charged with: he said nothing to her to induce her to make a confession, but one of the other constables did; witness heard it, but cannot say which constable it was. Mary Anne CLIFFE knows the prisoner at the bar: she offered witness a sheet for sale, but does not recollect the time: it was about a fortnight before she was taken up. She asked 18d. for the sheet, but witness refused to buy it, and did not take it into her hands. Prisoner then took it away, and witness knows not what became it. Witness lives near prisoner, and never bought any thing of her. The prisoner on being asked if she had any thing to say in her defence, spoke boldly, "Yes, my Lord. The boy has took a false oath. To my shame, I was much 'toxicated when we went to BOUSTEAD's. The boy got drunk with his own money. I and Mary GRAHAM quarrelled with Mrs. BOUSTEAD because she would not give us drink. JOHNSON then stole the sheet, and twitched me by the tail and I followed him to the door. He came afterwards to me to sell the sheet; and Mary, (addressing herself to the last witness) what was it you offered me for it; you offered me something for it you know; what was it; I was drunk at the time?-Mrs. CLIFFE denied that she offered any thing. His Lordship in summing up, said that this was a melancholy and a disgusting scene of depravity. The jury would recollect that the boy came there as an accomplice-and it was a rule laid down by all judges, that unless a person of this description is corroborated in some leading facts, never to give him credence. The boy, however, had been confirmed in almost all he had advanced. If the jury thought so, they would believe him, and therefore must find the prisoner guilty: but they would judge for themselves. The Jury almost instantly pronounced a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation. She immediately bawled out "Thank you my Lord," and indulged in a variety of other exclamations as long as she could be heard in Court.-During the trial she played off an excellent fainting fit-but it would not do-she was too well known! [to be continued]