John Farley

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Ron Garbutt on 22nd September 2022

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 September 2022), December 1810, trial of JOHN FARLEY ELIZA FARLEY (t18101205-53). JOHN FARLEY, ELIZA FARLEY, Theft > theft from a specified place, 5th December 1810. 53. JOHN FARLEY and ELIZA FARLEY were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 25th of November , a great coat, value 40 s. a waistcoat, value 7 s. a shirt, value 5 s. two half handkerchiefs, value 1 s. the property of James Williams ; a gown, value 5 s. a frock, value 2 s. a bonnet, value 5 s. three quarters of a yard of muslin, value 2 s. a handkerchief, value 1 s. and two waistcoats, value 3 s. the property of John Adamson , in the dwelling house of James Williams . MARY ADAMSON . Q. Do you know the prisoners at the bar - A. Yes; both the prisoner's came and took a lodging in my son's house on the 23d of October. My sons name is James Williams . They stopped a week and three days. Q. What parish is your house in - A. St. Leonard Shoreditch . On the third day after the week they absconded, and we missed all these things out of aroom. Q. And were these things found upon them - A. Yes, they were found in Paternoster-row, Spitalfields, No. 14. Q. Did an officer go with you - A. Yes. I went from my own house to their lodgings with an officer, they were not at home then; we waited till she came home and put the key in the door, and then the officer took her; he asked her what she paid for the room a week, she said, three shillings. Before she came home the officer and I searched the room; I found all the things, the bed curtains cut up; these are the blankets; what we found of them she took there. Q. The owner of the house is your son James Williams - A. Yes. They were all my things, they were taken from different parts of the house, and were found in her apartment in Paternoster-row, they were taken to the apartment that she lodged in. Q. What is the value of all these goods - A. I cannot exactly say the real value of them altogether, I have lost twenty pound I suppose. Q. Speak of the value of those things there, do they amount to the value of forty shillings - A. Yes, and upwards; the blankets are worth seven shillings a piece, there are two here, and four were taken; the mattrass we found in her apartment, it is worth about a pound, a bolster and pillow, the bolster is worth half a crown, the two arm chairs they are worth a guinea. All these things are mine, and they were found in the apartment of the prisoner. Q. There is another indictment they are to be tried upon - A. That is my son's clothes; there was a great coat taken when they came into the house, it has not been found, it cost my son four pound ten; there was a waistcoat found, my sons, it was worth ten shillings. Q. What can you swear to be the value of the property taken from your house - A. I can swear they are worth twenty pound to me. Q. You are sure they are worth forty shillings - A. I will say ten pound; then they are worth twenty pound to me. These are the things that were found at her lodgings, they are worth three pound. Prisoner. How do you know I took the coat; I never saw the coat in my life, nor many other things. The coat was never found. Prosecutrix. You took them; the officer found the duplicate, and these things in your lodging. Prisoner. I did not. - I am a pawnbroker. Q. Did you receive any thing from the prisoners at the bar - A. I do not recollect the prisoners; I received a waistcoat, from whom I cannot say. DANIEL BISHOP . I produce a duplicate of a waistcoat pledged for five shillings, I found it in the apartment where I found the woman prisoner. Prosecutrix. It is my son's waistcoat. JOHN RICHARDS . I am a pawnbroker. Q. Do you know of any thing pledged by the prisoners - A. I have every reason to believe it was neither of the prisoners that pledged the sheets. Bishop. I have a duplicate corresponding to this pair of sheets, pledged for ten shillings, that was found in the prisoners apartment. Prosecutor. These are my sheets, they are worth fifteen shillings. JONATHAN BAKER . I am a pawnbroker. Q. Do you know any thing of the prisoners pawning any thing with you - A. I cannot exactly say; I really believe it was the man, he pawned with me a waistcoat, a frock, and a shirt. Prosecutrix. They are mine; this is my sons shirt, it is worth about two shillings, a waistcoat of my sons worth one shilling, and my daughter's frock one shilling and sixpence. Bishop. That duplicate was sound in the prisoners apartment. JOSEPH DUNN . I am a pawnbroker; I produce a pillow case; I cannot speak to the prisoner. Bishop. I have the corresponding duplicate. Dunn. The duplicates tally, it is worth a shilling. Prosecutrix. The great coat and two pillows are not found. John Farley 's Defence. That waistcoat and shirt I have had five years. My wife knows nothing at all of the matter, and she is my lawful wife. Eliza Farley 's Defence. I am entirely innocent of any thing of the kind. JOHN FARLEY , GUILTY - DEATH , aged 24. ELIZA FARLEY , NOT GUILTY . Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. justice Grose. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18101205-53