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Maureen Withey on 30th May 2021

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 30 May 2021), January 1824, trial of CHARLES ELSWORTH CHARLES NUTTALL ROBERT WELDON JAMES RANDALL JABEZ GREEN MARY ANN KING (t18240114-13). CHARLES ELSWORTH, CHARLES NUTTALL, ROBERT WELDON, JAMES RANDALL, JABEZ GREEN, MARY ANN KING, Theft > grand larceny, Miscellaneous > perverting justice, 14th January 1824. SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15. Middlesex Cases, Second Jury, Before Mr. Recorder. 221. CHARLES ELSWORTH , CHARLES NUTTALL , ROBERT WELDON , JAMES RANDALL , and JABEZ GREEN were indicted for stealing, on the 26th of December , six saws, value 20 s.; eleven planes, value 20 s.; a stock, value 7 s.; a bit, value 6 d.; a pair of dividers, value 6 d.; a chisel, value 6 d.; a gauge, value 6 d., and a bevil, value 1 s., the goods of George Watmough ; and two trowels, value 2 s., the goods of Charles Lindsay ; and a trowel, value 1 s. , the goods of Thomas Clark ; and MARY ANN KING was indicted for feloniously receiving, harbouring, and maintaining the said prisoners, well knowing them to have committed the said felony . GEORGE WATMOUGH . I am a carpenter . I was working at a house in Asher-street West , and left the house on the 24th of December, about half-past four o'clock. Lindsay and Clark worked in the adjoining house. I left all my tools, which were worth 3 l. or 4 l., locked up in a chest, and the house locked up. I saw five persons lurking about the house on Christmas-eve, after dinner; Weldon was one of them - I cannot be certain of the others. On the 26th, between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, I found a hole cut through the brick work; my chest broken open, and most of my tools gone. I found them at Queen-square office next day, with a glue kettle, which was also taken. THOMAS PACE . I am an officer. On the 26th of December, about half-past eleven o'clock, I apprehended all the prisoners in one room - Elsworth was just coming out; I pushed him into the room, and found a quantity of tools under a half-tester bed, and Nuttall was filing a key. I called Handley in; there was only one bed in the room; they all denied knowing anything of the tools. King acknowledged that the room was her's, and said she had been out all night. I know that she lived there. Cross-examined by MR. LAW. Q. Where did you find them - A. At No. 1, Pump-court, Perkins's-rents, Old Pye-street. Some of the tools were in a cupboard. EDWARD JOHN HANDLEY . I was with Pace; his account is correct. Weldon was nearest to the trowels - I asked who they belonged to; he said to a plaisterer up stairs. I went up; there was no plaisterer there. (Property produced and sworn to.) ELSWORTH - GUILTY . Aged 17. NUTTALL - GUILTY . Aged 18. RANDALL - GUILTY . Aged 18. WELDON - GUILTY . Aged 15. GREEN - GUILTY . Aged 21. Transported for Seven Years . KING - GUILTY . Aged 21. Confined One Year . Before Mr. Justice Burrough.