| Reference Number | t18101031-54 |
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| Verdict | Guilty |
| Sentence | Imprisonment > newgate; Miscellaneous > fine |
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826. ANN SMITH was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 2nd of January , a pellise, value 15 s. the property of James Charles Grant .
JAMES CHARLES GRANT . I live in Church-row, Fenchurch-street; the prisoner had been my servant . I lost the pellise on the 2d of January; at the time the pellise was lost, Inquestioned the prisoner and the other servant, both of them denied having any knowledge of it; a duplicate was found in July, and with the duplicate I went and saw the pellise.
SAMUEL MILLER . I am an officer. I searched the prisoner's box in July at Mrs. Gutheridges, in Bithnal-green, I found a duplicate; I went to Morris, in the Minories, and saw the pellise which Mr. Grant claimed. I searched after the prisoner, on the 9th of October, I saw her coming out of Mrs. Gutheridges door; I then took her up into the room where the box was, I asked her if she lodged in the room; she said; yes, and the box was hers, and she afterwards said, she pawned it.
JOHN KILLINGWORTH . I am servant to Mr. Morris, pawnbroker; I made out that duplicate; this pellise, is pawned in the name of Anderson, on the 2nd of January, that is she name the prisoner mode use of at our shop. I cannot say I took in the pellise of her.
Prisoner's Defence. I have nothing to say.
GUILTY , aged 21.
Confined Fourteen days in Newgate , and fined 1 s.
London jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.