I live at Bath and am a silk-mercer, I have known her 4 years, she is a woman of the highest honor.
Mr. WRIGHT, EXAMINED BY Mr. BOND.
I am a jeweller and perfumer at Bath, have known her 5 years, have had the highest opinion of her, she is very honest and very strict.
JUDGE LAWRENCE went through the evidence most ably, in the course of which he observed that the character given her was the very best; that if the Jury had any doubt, her character ought to weigh in her favor, but that this would depend on their consideration of the facts; that if they believed Filby, they must pronounce her guilty, for the facts he had stated proved the offence, but that still there was a material fact in her favor, the circumstance of her returning to Bath-Street so soon, when she might have gone home and concealed the lace; the case however was left with them.
The Jury deliberated near half an hour, and returned a verdict of NOT GUILTY.
FINIS.
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