Old Bailey Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
OB | PS

19th October 1786 - 21st December 1787

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMOBPS450320014

Image 14 of 7745th March 1787


Middlesex to wit


The Information of Elizabeth
Margrave
< no role > of Bury Street Saith
James's Spinster Thomas Smith< no role >
Clerk said Elizabeth Margrave< no role >
and Betty Cork< no role > Servant to said
Elizabeth Margrave< no role > taken before
me this 5th. day of March 1787.

Who being upon Oath severally say and first
the said Elizabeth Margrave< no role > for herself saith
that last Night between seven and eight o'Clock
as she was sitting in the Parlour of her Mothers House
in Bury Street aforesaid she heard a Noise over her
head That she Knock'd with her Foot on the Floor
to call the Maid who came up immediately
That she then went into the Street and looked up
when she saw the Person [..] now present who calls
himself David Bostock< no role > at the dining loon
Window That she alarmed the Nighbourhood
when said Thomas Smith< no role > went into the House
and secured the said Bostock And the said
Thomas Smith< no role > for himself Says that about eight
o'Clock last Night he being at the House of Mr.
Boyce in Burry Street aforesaid and hearing on
Alarm he went to the House of said Mr. Margrave
That he went into the dining loom where he
found the Prisoner whom he secured at which time
he found upon him the Key and [..] now
produced That he has since try'd the said Key
and finds it will lock the Street door of sd Mrs. Margrave
House And the said Betty Cock< no role > for herself says




View as XML