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

7th December 1757

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7, 8. (M) John Page proceedingsdefend < no role > This name instance is in set 883. and Sarah his wife proceedingsdefend 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 .

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