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

12th September 1792

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375. ELEANOR PLACE proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 23d of August last, one pair of sheets, value 5 s. and other articles of furniture , the property of Charles Mason proceedingsvictim .

CHARLES MASON sworn.

I let the prisoner a lodging at 2 s. 6 d. per week, it was furnished, there was a woollen rug, two flat-irons, and a copper tea-kettle; I gave her the irons on the 22d, on the 23d I asked her for the rent; I thought something was missing, and I called in the patrol and searched the lodging, and all the things were missing.

WILLIAM BLATCH < no role > This name instance is in set 1824. sworn.

I produce a pair of sheets pawned by the prisoner, one on the 16th, and the other on the 23d; I am a pawnbroker, Iknow the prisoner, she said they were her own, she had lately received them from the country.

GUILTY. 40 s.

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]

[Fine. See summary.]




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