Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th July 1776
593.
ELIZABETH
JEENES
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing fourteen silver coat buttons, value ten shillings, sixteen silver waistcoat buttons, value six shillings, a black sattin cloak, value ten shillings, a silver punch ladle, value nine shillings, a silver watch, value twenty-one shillings, a brass metal watch key, value one penny, a silver stay hook, value one shilling, a muslin cap, value three pence, a pair of silver tea tongs, value three shillings, and a muslin handkerchief, value one shilling
, the property of
Joshua
Thorp
proceedingsvictim
, June 20th
.
EASTER THORP sworn.
I am the wife of
Joshua
Thorp
< no role >
: the prisoner was my servant
; the things mentioned in the indictment were taken out of the drawers in my room; I saw them on Tuesday and missed them on Thursday; the prisoner was then gone from me: I found some of the things at a pawnbroker's, and some at a cellar she went to when she went from me; she came to live with me but the Saturday before.
MARY
BRODDY
< no role >
sworn.
I am a pawnbroker: the prisoner pledged a cloak and handkerchief with me on the 18th of June.
[They were produced in court, and deposed to by Mrs. Thorp.]
CHARLES
DORMAN
< no role >
sworn.
I took the prisoner: I found a cap in a bundle up two pair of stairs, and some things in the cellar at the house where I took the prisoner; and the watch I found between her legs.
[They were produced in court, and deposed to by Mrs. Thorp.]
The prisoner said nothing in her defence.
GUILTY of stealing to the value of ten pence
.
W
.
Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.