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

15th September 1819

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1084. JANE MOGGRIDGE proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 29th of July , at St. Marylebone , one box, value 9 s.; six gowns, value 30 s.; four shifts, value 8 s.; six pair of stockings, value 5 s.; one bonnet, value 9 s.; four towels, value 1 s.; nine aprons, value 9 s. two handkerchiefs, value 2 s.; one pair of ear-rings, value 3 s.; one pair of scissars, value 1 s.; six books, value 12 s.; one basket, value 1 s.; three ounces of tea, value 15 d.; 1 lb. of sugar, value 9 d.; one pair of shoes, value 2 s.; three petticoats, value 9 s.; twelve caps, value 7 s.; four pieces of lace, value 2 s.; one tea-caddy, value 18 d.; two combs, value 18 d.: one pair of pattens, value 1 s., and 16 s. in monies numbered, the property of Mary Ann Mortimer proceedingsvictim , spinster , in the dwelling-house of Sarah Kelly < no role > , widow.

MARY ANN MORTIMER < no role > . On Tuesday, the 27th of July, I lodged with Mrs. Kelly, in Eagleton's-buildings , Marylebone - the prisoner also lodged there. I went out between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, leaving the prisoner in the house, also my box, which contained the articles stated in the indictment, worth above 7 l. I returned about twelve o'clock on Thursday night, the prisoner and box were both gone; I did not see her again until the 3d of September, when I met her at the corner of Grafton-street and Newport-market, with one of my gowns on. I said she was the person who had robbed me - she denied all knowledge of it. I took her to the watch-house, she still denied it; at last, after the constable came, she confessed it.

SARAH KELLY < no role > . I am a widow, and live in Eagleton's-buildings, Marylebone; the prosecutrix and the prisoner both lodged with me. The prosecutrix left on the 27th of July, leaving her box in my room, we all lodged in one room - there are only two rooms in the house, the landlord does not live in it. About ten o'clock that night the prisoner sent me out for something for supper, I desired her to take care of the place while I went; I returned in about ten minutes, found her gone, and the prosecutrix's box also.

THOMAS SAVAGE < no role > . I am constable of St. Ann's, Westminster. On the 3d of September I was sent for, and found the prisoner at the watch-house, the prosecutrix charged her with stealing her box of clothes - she denied it positively. The prosecutrix claimed the gown she had on, and said that the apron she wore was made out of another of her gowns, and she had let the tucks of the gown down to make it fit her; the prisoner said she had bought it in Monmouth-street. I searched her pockets, and found some pieces of stuff, a thimble, and a piece of a gown, which the prosecutrix claimed as being in her box when it was stolen. The prisoner said nothing then. I asked her how she could rob a poor girl of every thing she had? she said the Devil must have come over her when she did it. She gave me three duplicates of the prosecutrix's things.

WILLIAM JACKSON < no role > . I am a pawnbroker. I have two gowns and a pocket, which were pledged with me. I do not know the prisoner.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

GUILTY . - DEATH . Aged 40.

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron Graham < no role > .




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