Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

25th February 1719

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Sarah Kingsbury proceedingsdefend and Thomas Danger proceedingsdefend , of White Fryers Precinct , were indicted for breaking open the House of Richard Cadwalader proceedingsvictim on the 25th of January last in the Night time, and stealing thence 39 Guineas and 7 l. in Money . The Prosecutor depos'd that his House was broken open the Night aforesaid, that the Casement, was shut when they went to Bed but that they found the Lead opened from the Bottom of the Casement, which was taken off the Hooks and put into the next Yard, Mrs Cadwolader deposed that hearing a Noise the suspected Thieves were broke into the House so was going into the Room where the Money, &c. was, but found that the Door was bolted on the inside; that when she got into the Room she found the Closet Broken open and the Lock of the Drawers likewise, and that they lost between 40 and 50 Pound, and the Drawer wherein it was. That they took up the Prisoner Sarah Kingsbury < no role > who had been their Servant on suspicion, she own'd that she help'd a Boy over the Wall into the Yard to open and get in at the Window to rob the House, and that he brought her 20 Guineas and a Handful of Silver, that she gave him 3 Guineas, and that she bought a Gold Necklace and two Gold Rings, which when taken she offer'd to her Mistress, saying here's part of the Goods I bought with your Money; that the Boy was her Husband, whom she came acquainted with at a Dancing School in Drury-Lane . Her Confession which she made and sign'd before the Justice was read in Court. The Jury brought her in Guilty , Death . but no Evidence appearing against Danger he was acquitted .




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