| Reference Number | t17891028-9 |
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| Verdict | Guilty |
| Sentence | Transportation |
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749. JANE EDWARDS was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of September last, a child's linen shirt, value 12 d. two linen frocks, value 2 s. a bed-gown, value 12 d. a linen pin-cloth, value 6 d. two linen handkerchiefs, value 12 d. the property of John Berry .
I am wife of the prosecutor; I lost the things in the indictment; I did not know the prisoner before; I had been washing the day before, and hung these things in the kitchen the night before; and I took them down in the morning, and put them on the dresser, and went into the parlour; and coming back, I met the prisoner with the things in her apron; I gave charge of her.
(The things deposed to.)
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
A woman that I knew about five years ago, treated me with about four or five glasses of liquor; and she said she would take me home; and she took me to this house; I do not know how the things came into my lap.
GUILTY .
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.