Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th December 1757
7, 8. (M)
John
Page
proceedingsdefend
< no role > This name instance is in set 883.
and Sarah
his
wife
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were indicted for
stealing three blankets, value 3 s. two linen sheets, one bed quilt, one copper tea kettle, one pair of tongs, one trevit, one bolster, one brass fender, one pair of bellows, and one curtain, the goods of
James
Case
proceedingsvictim
, the same being in a certain lodging room let by contract
, &c. Nov. 5
. +
James
Case
< no role >
. I live in Dean Street, High Holbourn
. I let a lodging-room in my house ready furnished to the prisoners at the bar, on the 23d of September. On the 5th of November they went out, I had a mistrust they had taken away some of the goods. We went in and missed the goods mention'd in the indictment.
Q. Have you ever seen them, or any of them since?
Case. I have most of them. I took up the woman, who confessed she had pawn'd them at several pawn brokers, where I went and found them pawn'd in her name. I have heard a very good character of the man, but a very bad one of the woman.
Q. What is his employ?
Case. He is a labourer
in the farming way.
Q. Did she say she pawn'd the goods by the order of her husband?
Case. No, she did not mention him.
Ann
Case
< no role >
, wife of the prosecutor, confirmed the evidence of her husband.
John
Fryer
< no role >
. I am a pawnbroker; the woman at the bar brought a sheet to pawn with me about the latter end of September, and a tea kettle, which my brother took in. I heard her own since that she brought them, and Mr. Case has had them out.
Anthony
Desolor
< no role >
. I am a pawnbroker. The woman at the bar brought me a quilt, two blankets, and a curtain.
Jane
Ramsey
< no role >
. I am a pawnbroker. There was a bolster brought to me by the name of
Mary
Jones
< no role >
, the woman that brought it is not here: ( Produced in court and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)
John
Page
< no role >
's Defence.
I never was in the pawnbrokers shops.
Sarah
Page
< no role >
's Defence.
My husband went along with me, and staid at the doors while I pawned these things, who was then sick and out of work.
To his Character.
William
Thorp
< no role >
. The prisoner
John
Page
< no role >
was servant to me (I am in the coal business) more than seven years. He has been gone from me about four years. He behaved very honestly while with me.
Q. Do you know the woman?
Thorp. I know nothing of her.
James
Page
< no role >
. I am nephew to the prisoner. and have known him all my life time. I would trust him with a million of money if I had it, but to the woman she is very bad.
Catherine
Burcher
< no role >
. I have known
John
Page
< no role >
about four years. He was servant to us, and drove a cart for us within a month or two ago. My husband is a farmer. He has been trusted to bring money home for hay, and he has brought it very honestly; he is a very honest man.
John
acquitted
.
Sarah
guilty
.
[Branding. See summary.]