Offence: Theft > grand larceny
Verdict: Guilty
Punishment: Transportation
675. HANNAH RAVENSCROFT was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 21st of June , a shirt, value 1s. a night-gown, value 1s. 6d. and a cap, value 2s. the property of Israel Watts .
Mrs. WATTS sworn. - My husband is a hairdresser , and lives in Church-street, Mile-end , the prisoner was servant in the house where we lodged; I missed the linen off a chest, and saw a part of the cap on her head, I knew it by the lace; she confessed it, and we found a calico gown behind her bed, and a shirt on her; I found some keys on her, which opened my drawers. (The property was produted and identified.)
Prisoner's defence. The shirt and cap lay on my bed, and being short of linen, I took the shirt till such time as I had washed my own; the woman saw the cap on my head, it belonged to her; I gave it her, and they took me up for stealing them, which I had not; as for the keys, I know nothing of them. GUILTY , aged 17.
Transported for seven years .
Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.