Saturday 28 Aug 1819 (p. 2, col. 5 - p. 3, col. 5) Cumberland Assizes, 1819. CROWN COURT. [continued] STEALING OF STOCKINGS. WM. MOOR was charged with stealing two pair of cotton stockings the property of Catherine ELLIS, a servant with Mrs. HAMLEY, of Moorhouse Hall, near Warwick. C. ELLIS deposed that at half-past 11 o'clock in the morning on Friday last, she hung seven pair of cotton stockings on the garden hedge; on her return about half-past 12, thirteen of the stockings were gone. She gave alarm, and the prisoner was taken near the place, but nothing was found about his person. Thomas DODD, who lives at Warwick, was going home between 11 and 12 on Sunday night; met the prisoner about half a mile from Warwick-said to prisoner, "I wouldn't wonder but you have the stockings about you:" on which the prisoner ran off. DODD then looked around, and saw a bundle lying in the hedge, a few yards from where he was standing; he took it up, and followed and arrested the prisoner, who told the witness his coat was so bad that he had taken the stockings to buy himself a better. There were six pair and an odd stocking in the bundle, which were proved by C. ELLIS to be her's and her mistress's property. Guilty,-12 months' imprisonment in Carlisle gaol. SHOP LIFTING. MARGARET CARR, of Whitehaven, widow, indicted for privately in stealing in the shop of William LANGCAKE, at Workington, one piece of cotton print 28 yards, and one piece of calico, of the value of 40s.-Mr. LAMB, as counsel for the prosecution, briefly stated the circumstances of the theft as detailed in the evidence. Joseph TIRRIL is shopman to Mr. LANGCAKE, at Workington. On the 2nd of June last, he had information given him by a woman, that a female had stolen something out of the shop and was concealed in a door-way in the street; he immediately went out to look after her, and not seeing her, returned into the shop-he had not been long there when his informant returned and told him the female had come out of her hiding place and was then going down the street; he went out and saw the prisoner walking quickly, and on her turning the corner of Bridge-street, she ran off; he pursued and overtook her going into Mr. PEARSON's school yard, and pulling down her apron, found the pieces which he produced and identified as the property of his master-he had shewn one of the pieces to some customers immediately before, and is certain he had not sold it-the piece was marked in his own writing; the cost price 26s. 6d. for the 28 yards in private characters, selling price 1s. 2d. per yard in figures-believes the prisoner has 4 or 5 children-he does not know her occupation.-The prisoner in her defence said, that a woman in the shop gave her the articles, and that she told TIRRIL, if he would go with her she could find her; he would not do so at that time, but sent the constable afterwards and she could not find her.-TIRRIL recalled: said she never requested him to go with her, nor did he send any one.-His Lordship in his charge to the jury said, that by law, privately stealing in a shop to the value of 5s. is a capital offence; there was no doubt that the articles were considerably above that value, but to sustain the capital part of the charge, it was necessary to prove that the articles were stolen privately, which had not been done. He therefore directed them if they found her guilty of stealing, to add, not privately. The jury returned their verdict, Guilty, but not privately. His Lordship took into consideration her having been two months' confined and her small family-hoped when she again was at liberty she would repent of her conduct and not be guilty of the like again.-Sentenced to four months' imprisonment in Carlisle goal. [to be continued]