Eleanor Flinn

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Ron Garbutt on 21st March 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 21 March 2020), September 1810, trial of ELEANOR FLYNN CATHARINE KING (t18100919-51). ELEANOR FLYNN, CATHARINE KING, Theft > theft from a specified place, Theft > receiving, 19th September 1810. 668 ELEANOR FLYNN was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 22nd of July , four yards of lace, value 20 s. a paper of pins value 3 d. and a bank note for the payment of 2 l. the property of Elizabeth Mountcastle , in the dwelling-house of John Cave ; and CATHARINE KING for feloniously receiving the same goods, knowing them to be stolen . ELIZABETH MOUNTCASTLE. I am sister to John Cave , 140, Whitecross-street ; he is a cheesemonger; Eleanor Flynn lived with him as servant . Q. Did you lose any pins, lace, and notes - A. Yes; on tee 22d of July I lost four yards of lace, a five-shilling-piece, and a paper of pins, from a small box, the key of the box was left loose on the table in that room. Q. When had you seen them there - A. In the morning, about ten or eleven o'clock; I missed them between ten and eleven at night The box was in an empty room, and one of the doors of of the room was locked, there were two doors to the room, and the door that was not locked was opened. I sent for a constable, and accused the prisoner of it; she denied it;the things were found at the mother's house about eleven o'clock that night. Eleanor Flynn. My mother is innocent. EDWARD TRING. I am an headborough. I searched Eleanor Flynn and found nothing. She said she had been out to her mother to fetch some cloaths; I went to the mother, I asked the mother where her pockets were; she shewed me the pockets, I found the two pound note, a crown-piece, and the pins, in the mother's pocket; she said she knew nothing at all about it: she was in bed. Q. Did you find any lace - A. Not there. I searched Eleanor's box, I found this four yards and a half of lace; she said, she found the lace in Mr. Cave's room, and she found the two pound note, but the crown-piece was given to her by the woman down stairs. JOHN CAVE. I am a cheesemonge, I live 140, Whitecross-street. Q. Do you know whether your sister had a box in one of the rooms - A. Yes. Q. Did Eleanor Flynn live with you - A. She came to me on the Saturday-night, and on the Sunday I was out in the afternoon about two hours and a half; nobody was in the house at that time but Eleanor Flynn . Q. Could she get at that box of your sister's - A. She could get in at one of the doors that was not fastened. Q. Did you see the mother that day or not - A. I did not see her at our house. The constable accused Eleanor of it; she persisted in denying that she had been in the room. We afterwards went to her mother, the officer told her mother for what purpose we came. I was present when the bank note was found in her pocket; we found the lace in a box; Eleanor Flynn said she found the lace in a room. Eleanor Flynn 's defence. My mother is innocent. When my mistress sent me home for my clean things, I took off my dirty pockets, and put them on the bed; my mother did not know any thing was there. Catharine Flynn said nothing in her defence. ELEANOR FLYNN , GUILTY , aged 12. Of stealing the lace to the value of 20 s. only. Transported for Seven Years . CATHARINE FLYNN , NOT GUILTY . Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Bailey. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18100919-51