Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
24th October 1787
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.