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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 June 2023), December 1799, trial of                      JOHN                      WORRALL                                                                                                SUSANNAH                   GREEN                                                                                                 (t17991204-39).<hr/><h2>JOHN WORRALL, SUSANNAH GREEN, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, Theft &gt; receiving, 4th December 1799. </h2>                                                                                                                  <p>39.                                                       JOHN                      WORRALL                                                                                                          and                                  SUSANNAH                   GREEN                                                                                                             were indicted, the first for                                                          feloniously stealing, on the 2d of December                                          , seventy-seven prints, value 17l. thirty prints, value 30s. half a quire of paper, value 3d. five prints in gilt frames, value 2s. a glazier's diamond, value 10s. and various other articles, the property of                                              Samuel-William                         Fores                                                                                                            , in his dwelling-house            ; and the other for                                                          receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen            .</p>               <p>SAMUEL-                                 WILLIAM                   FORES                                                                                        sworn. - The latter end of August, I employed the prisoner to paint my house; I live in Piccadilly                                                                        ; I missed some things; I went to his lodgings, and found he had absconded; I traced him last Monday to his lodgings in Cumberland-street, Shoreditch; I found the two prisoners in the room, and all the articles in the indictment, except the diamond, and six small prints in frames, which were in pledge; he immediately acknowledged he had taken them, and hoped I would forgive him; he never attempted to deny it: I found the diamond and the six prints at the pawnbroker's.</p>               <p>Prisoner. You lent me the diamond.</p>               <p>Fores. I did, to cut a piece of glass in my shop; not to take it away.</p>               <p>                                                GEORGE                   HALES                                                                                        sworn. - On the 9th of November I took in a diamond of the prisoner Green; I lent her five shillings upon it; (produces it.)</p>               <p>Fores. This is my diamond.</p>               <p>                                                JAMES                   DEWER                                                                                        sworn. - (Produces six prints.)</p>               <p>I took them in of the prisoner Green, on the 10th of October.</p>               <p>Fores. I verily believe them to he mine.</p>               <p>                                                MARY                   YOUNG                                                                                        sworn. - (Produces three prints.) I bought these three prints of the prisoner Green; she brought a respectable housekeeper with her; I gave her nine shillings for them.</p>               <p>Fores. The prints are mine; but not the frames or glasses.</p>               <p>                                                PETER                   MASON                                                                                        sworn. - I am a constable;(produces a quantity of prints;) I found them at the prisoner's lodgings, No. 21. Cumberland-street.(They were deposed to by Mr. Fores.)</p>               <p>ELIZABETH BLACK sworn. - Mrs. Green asked me to put some prints into my room, and when I heard that they were stole, she said, if you think they are stole, take them down, for God's sake; I said no, they should remain up to be seen.</p>               <p>Worrall's defence. I took some of the caricatures, they were lying in a garret; I did not think them of any value.</p>               <p>Green's defence. I did not know that they were stole.</p>               <p>Worrall,                                     GUILTY                                                                   Death            . (Aged 35.)</p>               <p>Green, GUILTY. (Aged 41.)</p>               <p>                                                                           Transported for seven years            .</p>               <p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron HOTHAM.</p>            </div>
				
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