489. (L.) Elizabeth Strut , otherwise Elizabeth, wife of John Bowden proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing one pair of linen sheets, value 3 s. the property of Francis Britain proceedingsvictim , the same being in a certain lodging lett by contract by the said Francis to the said prisoner , &c. August 16 . ||

Francis Britain < no role > . I lett the prisoner a ready-furnished room, at 18 d. a week; about the beginning of August she came as a single woman out of place, and said she had nobody belonging to her; she lodged there about a fortnight; a woman that lodged in my house had lent her her key, to go up into her room for some things, after which she found her box broke open; then my wife and that woman went into the prisoner's room, and found the sheets were gone; I took her up, and upon her second examination I heard her confess where she had pawned them.

John Jones < no role > . The prisoner pledged this sheet (producing one) with me, the 12th of August, in the name of Elizabeth Jackson < no role > .

- Humphrys. I am servant to a pawnbroker; the prisoner pledged this sheet (producing one) to me, in the name of Elizabeth Brown < no role > .

Anne Britain < no role > . I am wife to the prosecutor; these two sheets, here produced, are our property; I missed them out of her room when I went to search.

Prisoner's defence.

I know nothing about it.

For the prisoner.

Anne Nesbit < no role > . I am aunt-in-law to the prisoner; she used to come often to our house, but I believe it is three years ago.

Q. Is she a married woman?

A. Nesbit. I do not know whether she is, or is not; she has not been in London above seven or eight years; she behaved well as far as I understand while in service, which was four or five years.

Q. Have you ever heard her husband was under sentence of transportation?

A. Nesbit. No, not till lately.

Guilty . T .

There was another indictment against her.

See her tried by the name of Elizabeth Martin < no role > This name instance is in set 3650. in Last Sessions-paper, No 468.