Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
22nd October 1766
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.