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

24th October 1787

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842. MARY TUCK proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of September , a bolster case, value 3 s. a cotton waistcoat, value 1 s. a cloak, value 2 s. a table-cloth, value 6 d. an apron, value 6 d. the property of Robert Wafeld proceedingsvictim .

ROBERT WAFELD < no role > sworn.

I am a poor labouring man ; I lost some wearing apparel the 27th of last month; I saw the prisoner once; I never saw her but once, that was at the office after she was taken; I lost this out of Kingsland-road ; I gave 5 l. a year for a little house; I lost a cloak of my wife's, an apron, and a table-cloth; when I returned to breakfast between eight and nine, my wife told me the house was robbed.

ANN WAFELD < no role > sworn.

I was in bed; I saw the things the night before; I pulled them off myself; when I got up, I missed them; I went to all the pawnbrokers, and in one, I saw them lay; then I took my oath to them; the pawnbroker's name is Southey.

- SOUTHEY sworn.

I am servant to the pawnbroker; I produce the things pawned by the prisoner.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

A man gave them to me to pawn; his name is John Meriman < no role > , in Brick-lane; I told the officer so.

GUILTY .

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.




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