Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
29th June 1743
283.
Judith
Arman
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing a Copper Tea-Kettle, a Pair of Sheets, and a Smoothing-Iron, the Goods of
James
Kennedy
proceedingsvictim
, (in her Lodging)
May 12
.
James
Kennedy
< no role >
. The Prisoner came to lodge with me the 6th of May, and on the 12th of May she stole these Things: I met her accidentally in the Park on Whitson-Monday, (of all the Days in the Year) between two and three o'Clock in the Afternoon, said I, How could you be such a base Jade as to rob me, and take away my Key too; she begged for her Life, and said she had pawned them.
Rachael
Bradshaw
< no role >
, the Pawnbroker's Servant. I took these Things in from the Prisoner, and her Sister, I lent her two 2 s. on the Tea-kettle, 12 d. on the Sheets, and 4 d. on the Iron, I have known the Prisoner these 5 Years, she has pawned Things frequently at our House.
Guilty
.
[Transportation. See summary.]