Anne Newland

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Maureen Withey on 24th March 2024

Tried at the Old Bailey, 26 May 1790. 534. ANN NEWLAND was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of May last, two pieces of silk lace, containing twenty-three yards, value 4 l. two other pieces, value 5 l. one yard and a half of black ditto, value 5 s. three pieces of silk ribbon, containing seven yards, value 18 d. the property of Robert Dyde and Achilles Scribe , in their dwelling house . (The witnesses examined separate.) ROBERT DYDE sworn. My partner's name is Achilles Scribe; we are warehousemen ; we lost the things in the indictment; on Wednesday, the 26th, it was discovered that a piece of silk was missing out of the warehouse: the suspicion fell on the prisoner, who was cook , and cleaned the room where the lace was locked up in presses; in consequence of that suspicion, we put some goods into the same place the next evening; the next morning, after she had cleaned out the room, I saw the goods afterwards found upon her; the same day, I found some bundles belonging to her, that she was going to take away; part of the things in the house, that were mentioned in the indictment; a quantity of black lace, and a piece of silk that had been missing; it was silk lace; I went to her lodgings where the trunks were, and there we found the other things: the prisoner went with us, and unlocked the trunk herself; we found another card of black lace and a card of thread lace; there was one piece in the trunk; the first piece of lace was not in her bundle; it was found in her stays in her band-box up stairs; I found in her trunk two pieces of thread lace; the value of one piece of black lace which was in her stays, was from two to three pounds; the yard and a half of black silk, about two or three shillings; three yards of ribbon, about one shilling; another piece in her trunk, worth from twenty to thirty shillings; the other pieces of thread lace, worth four pounds, at the lowest; I can swear to part of them; to the first piece of black lace I can positively swear. Mr. Garrow. There is no other person in partnership with you, but Mr. Scribe? - Nobody else. How long have you been in partnership? - Two years. Were you two partners before the bankruptcy? - Yes, for about six or eight months. ACHILLES SCRIBE sworn. On Wednesday, about twelve in the morning, missing different things, I, myself, at night measured a piece of silk which was left; it was missed from a press in the back room; I did not miss it myself; at night, I put in that very place, a piece of silk that I measured, and a piece of ribbon; the next morning, I went into the room myself, and measured them over again, and part of it was missing: I told Mr. Dyde of it, and went to Justice Hyde for a search-warrant; I came back with a constable; and Mr. Dyde went to search the prisoner, and it was in the prisoner's room up stairs; a piece of lace was found by the constable, in a hat-box; it was black silk lace; I know of nothing else in that room; I went out immediately: Mr. Dyde, the constable, and the prisoner, went into the kitchen; a little after, I went down myself, as the constable was opening a little bundle, in which were two remnants of silk, and the remnant of ribbon, that I missed; it was a yard a half of silk, and about three yards of ribbon. Mr. Garrow. These bundles were chiefly sealed up? - I do not know that they were. Do not you know that they were only pinned? - I do not know in what state they were. WILLIAM WATERS sworn. I am a constable: I searched the house on Thursday; there was some black lace found in a hat-box where this young woman and her fellow servant slept; we went down stairs in the kitchen, and there was a bit of black mode in a little pantry on one side of the kitchen, in a little work-bag; we went to the room in Great Mary-le-bone-street, where she had sent her boxes; and there we found some ribbon and some lace. Mr. Garrow. Have you kept the things separate? - No, Sir, they are all together. Jury. What quantity was there? - I do not know; there is some on a card, black lace, which they measured in the office, which was about twelve yards: Mr. Dyde said he measured it. (The things produced and deposed to.) The prisoner called one witness to her character. GUILTY, 39 s. Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.