At the Leeds Court House, on Saturday last, before the Mayor (Joseph RICHARDSON, Esq.) and John Hope SHAW, Esq., a married woman, named Ann PAPE, was charged with stealing a brass pan, worth 1s 6d., belonging to Jeremiah DARCY, broker, East Water Lane.

It appeared that a brass pan had been missed from the prosecutor’s house about a week ago and it was afterwards discovered that it had been sold by the prisoner on Wednesday last to Mrs. WILKINSON a general dealer, in St. Peter’s Square.

PAPE had been seen on the prosecutor’s premises a few days before the pan was missed. The prisoner was also charged with stealing a game cock, the property of a man named John SCULLY, who lives in Weaver Square. It was clearly proved that the fowl had been missed by SCULLY on the previous Monday, and on Tuesday the prisoner sold a game cock, which SCULLY identified as his, to a woman named Harriet DAWSON.

The magistrates convicted the prisoner under the new criminal justice bill, which enables justices of the peace, when the property stolen does not exceed 5s., to deal summarily with the party accused. On the first charge, that of stealing the brass pan, the prisoner was sentenced to three month’s imprisonment, and for the offence she received a nominal sentence of three days imprisonment, though the magistrates hinted that they had the power of sending her to gaol for six months.