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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 24 March 2023), October 1827, trial of                   SARAH                   WALBY                                                                                                 (t18271025-23).<hr/><h2>SARAH WALBY, Theft &gt; simple larceny, 25th October 1827. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>2003.                                  SARAH                   WALBY                                                                                                             was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 10th of February                     , 13 shirts, value 5l.; 3 table-cloths, value 15s., and 1 Bible, value 5s.            , the goods of                                  Ann                   Diggens                                                                                                            .</p>               <p>ANN DIGGENS. I am a widow                  , and live in Francis-place, Westminster                                                       - I am a laundress                  ; the prisoner assisted me to wash and iron                  . I missed about 6l. worth of property at different times, and found it all at the pawnbrokers. I cannot say how much was taken at once.</p>               <p>Prisoner. Q. Did you not give me these things to pawn? A. Never; I have been obliged to pay for most of them.</p>               <p>                                                WILLIAM                   HARDY                                                                                       . I am servant to Mr. Morris, a pawnbroker, of York-street, Westminster. The prosecutrix came to our shop and redeemed this property, which had been pawned by the prisoner at different times, in September, November, and December, 1826.(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>               <p>                                                RICHARD                   CUFF                                                                                       . I am an officer, and took her in charge.</p>               <p>Prisoner's Defence. She gave me them to pawn; she said at the office she had only lost three shirts, and that they were worth only 2l.; she afterwards said she would do for me, and bring these things against me, as she could not find all her property.</p>               <p>ANN DIGGENS. It is false.</p>               <p>                                                                           GUILTY. Aged 33. Of stealing to the value of 39s. only            .</p>               <p>                                                                           Transported for Seven Years            .</p>            </div>
				
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