Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

18th October 1769

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585. (M.) Jane Davis proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a small looking-glass, value 12 d. a pair of stays, value 5 s. a woman's linen gown, value 2 s. 6 d. a silk gown, value 5 s. a dimitty petticoat, value 12 d. a linen apron, value 2 s. a handkerchief, two shifts, two linen caps, two pair of thread stockings, a pair of pockets, a pair of leather mittins, two silver rims for buckles, a check linen apron, and a pair of damask shoes , the property of Ann Hunt proceedingsvictim , widow , September 16 . ++

Ann Hunt < no role > . I live in King-street, Westminster . The prisoner lodged with me five weeks. She left me the 12th of September. I had given her warning to go away, and I mist the things laid in the indictment, the Saturday after she was gone, out of my drawers; some in one room, and some in another. I went and found her in Swallow-street, at Mrs. Barber's. There I found all my things in a box in her room.

Hannah Barber < no role > , Robert Twitcher < no role > , and Mrs. Haylock, deposed to seeing the goods found. (Produced, and deposed to.)

Guilty . T .




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