227. JUDITH BAREW proceedingsdefend wife of Israel Barew, otherwise Israel Barrow < no role > ; ABRAHAM NATHANS proceedingsdefend , SARAH JEFFRIES proceedingsdefend , and FRANCES wife of DAVID DAVIS < no role > proceedingsdefend were indicted for feloniously receiving, on the 19th of December last, one set of moreen bed furniture, containing thirty yards, value 5 l. and two sets of moreen window curtains, value 30 s. then lately stolen by certain ill disposed persons, well knowing the same to have been stolen, taken, and carried away .

DANIEL LUCKHURST < no role > sworn.

I only prove the property.

JOHN CHAPMAN < no role > sworn.

On the 17th of September last, I was in the house of Mr. Luckhurst that was robbed; it was left in my care, I fastened it in the evening of the 17th, about eight o'clock, I went again on the 19th to open it, and I found it had been broke open.

What things were missing? - The furniture of a moreen bed and nine window curtains; I know nothing of the defendants, nor of the property being found.

MICHAEL NATHAN < no role > sworn.

About three months ago, on a Saturday night, I went to Whitechapel to buy a quarter of bees; I left my maid at home in my house, and she shewed me these curtains; I found them at my house.

Court. Is your maid here.

Prosecutor. My Lord, she was here just now, but I am afraid she is sent out clandestinely.

Court. Do you know any thing of these four defendants? - No, no farther than the maid told me they took the curtains up to the Justice's, and the constable has them.

DENNIS < no role > M'DONALD sworn.

I have had them ever since.

Mr. Peat Council for the Defendants. How long ago is it that you carried them to the Justice's? - The Friday following, about three weeks ago.

Judith Simons < no role > called on her recognizance, but did not appear.

Court to Nathan. What < no role > is become of your maid? - She has been gone from me better than three weeks, I could not keep her any longer.

What did you part with her for? - Because she wanted more wages, and I would not give her any more.

Have you seen her since that? - I saw her on Saturday, and I saw her here to day.

Upon your oath, do not you know where she is at this time? - No, I do not.

Did you desire her to go away from here? - No, and please you my Lord, what should I desire her to go away for.

Did you? - I did not.

Did you hear any body else desire her to go away? - No, I do not speak to her; I saw her at the Pitt's head going into the tap-room.

Were any of the defendants there? - I did not see any of them.

Court. Send to the houses over the way and see if she is there.

Dennis < no role > M'Donald. The curtains were brought to me about the 26th or 27th.

Of what month? - Of September, and I kept them in my custody, and took the people.

SARAH NATHAN < no role > sworn.

Michael Nathan < no role > asked me to go with him to the Justice's to deliver the curtains up; I went with him, and I was bound over.

Do you know any thing of the matter? - No.

Where do you live? - In Shoemaker-row.

In whose house? - In Israel Mordecai's; I am married since to Michael Nathan.

Do you know how the curtains came into the house? - I do not know, I was not there then; I saw the young woman this morning; I do not know who desired her to go away.

Mr. Montague. My Lord, I have been over, and she was at the Pitt's Head with the rest of the witnesses, and they came over here together.

Mr. Peat to Sarah Nathan. How < no role > long is it ago since you went up to the Justice's? - Three or four months.

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER < no role > sworn.

On a Sunday in September I heard some words in the house where we live, and I got up to the door and I saw Mrs. Davis, one of the defendants coming down stairs, and I heard her say, thank God it cost twelve guineas and an half, it does not belong to me; but what she meant I do not know; that is all I know about it.

Who was she speaking of? - I do not know.

Had she any thing with her? - No, she had not.

What house did you live in then? - The same as I do now, in Allen's-court, St. James's, Duke's-place; one Mrs. Wright is the landlady; I am a lodger.

Does Mrs. Davis live in the same house with you? - No.

Do any of the defendants: live in the same house with you? - No; Mrs. Simons lives in the same house.

LEAH SIMONS < no role > sworn.

Michael Nathan < no role > desired me to go along with him to bring these goods to the office, for the maid told him that the goods were left at that house; I know nothing of my own knowledge.

Court. Do you know Judith Simons < no role > the maid? - Yes; she is my daughter.

Then what is become of her? - She is not under my jurisdiction; she has been at service.

Who desired her to get out of the way? - I cannot tell.

Court to Prosecutor. Have you any other evidence? - No, my Lord, that that is put of the way is the principal evidence.

Court to Jury. Gentlemen, this trick as it appears to me, has succeeded for the present, for there being no evidence you must acquit the defendants.

Court. Take care of the recognizance.

ALL FOUR ACQUITTED .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.