Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th September 1792
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
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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.]