619. JOHN WELCH proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1398. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . was indicted for stealing on the 14th of May , one pair of linen sheets, value 49 s. the property of John George Goldfrap proceedingsvictim , in his dwelling house .

JOHN FIELD < no role > sworn.

I am between fourteen and fifteen, I know the nature of an oath, the sheets belonged to my master John George Goldfrap < no role > , he is a Captain , I am his servant boy, I have lived with him three quarters of a year, the prisoner was my fellow servant and slept with me, the prisoner came up stairs half undressed on Friday three weeks, between six and seven, I asked him where he had been, I was in sleep when he went down, but I was awake when he came in again, he always called me up when he got up, and he said he had been to the necessary; then he dressed himself and went down, he had then all on but his coat, and his shoes were not buckled; when I went down the back part of the shutters were open, where the drawers were that had the linen in, and I went into the yard, and while I was in the yard he went out, I did not see him take any thing out, but I heard the door shut; when my master and mistress got up he did not come home, and my master said he would turn him away, we never heard any thing of him till he was taken up, we were sent for to the office in Litchfield-street about eleven o'clock, when I saw him at the office he was in custody.

Was there any thing produced when you were there at the office? - No, he told me himself that he had taken away my master's sheets to pawn.

How came he to tell you that? - I do not know.

Mr. Garrow. Whose house does Mr. Goldfrap lodge at? - At No. 8, he has taken it at three months, all the house.

Does nobody else live in it? - No.

These are ready furnished lodgings? - No, my master has taken all the house.

And furnished it himself? - No, Sir, it is a ready furnished house.

Does no person who belongs to the house, nor any servant belonging to them live in the house? - No.

The remainder of this Trial in the next Part, which will be published in a few days.

THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS ON THE KING's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the CITY of LONDON; AND ALSO The Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex; HELD AT JUSTICE HALL in the OLD BAILEY, On Wednesday the 26th of MAY, 1784, and the following Days;

Being the FIFTH SESSION in the Mayoralty of The Right Hon. ROBERT PECKHAM < no role > , Esq; LORD MAYOR < no role > OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

TAKEN IN SHORT HAND BY E. HODGSON, PROFESSOR OF SHORT-HAND; And Published by Authority.

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Continuation of th e Trial of John Welch < no role > This name instance is in set 1398. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . .

WILLIAM DERVIN < no role > sworn.

On the 14th of May, about seven in the morning, the prisoner came to me with a pair of sheets, I am a pawnbroker, he wanted to pledge them for twenty-five shillings, he said they belonged to one Mr. Chamberford, I asked his name, he said his name was William Warren < no role > , I asked him where he lived, he said it was nothing to me, I asked him several other questions, and he gave me very odd answers, he asked me if I would take them in, he asked me if I would chuse to stop them, and he then attempted to run away, I jumped over the counter and collared him, and took him to the Rotation-office in Litchfield-street.

Court. Are they new sheets? - They have never been used I believe.

ELIZABETH FRANCIS < no role > sworn.

(Deposes to the sheets.)

They are my master's property, he has the whole house.

Does any part of the family of the person he took it from live in the house? - Nobody but his family, they are his property, they are marked J. G. No. 4, and a dot over the letters.

The prisoner called two witnesses to his character.

GUILTY Of stealing to the value of 39 s.

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.