Fanny Stoker

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Roger Churm on 27th April 2019

Old Bailey Proceedings April 1829 FANNY STOKER Theft,simple larceny,9th April 1829 784.Fanny Stoker was indicted for stealing,on this 26th of February,1 pair of silk stockings,value 6s;6 pairs of gloves,value 9s;1 steel pan,value 1s;1 dozen of boot-laces,value 9d,and 2 dozen of other laces,value 1s 6d,the goods of George Wagner and another. MR PHILLIPS conducted the prosecution. GEORGE WAGNER.I am in partnership with William Chapman-the prisoner was in our service.I sent for an officer on the 26th of February,and this pair of silk stockings was found in a box,which she acknowledged to be hers;I asked her where she got them-she said she purchased them at a shop in Oxford -street;I said "That will not do for me,are the initials or your predecessors on them" she then said she bought them of a young man in the shop. JOSEPH ROADS.I am a constable,these articles were all found in the prisoners box-they all appeared to be new;these stockings were amongst them;the prisoner said at first that she bought them in Oxford-street; Mr Wagner said they belonged to Jenner and Soppet,their predecessors;the prisoner then said she had forgot herself,for she had bought them of a young men in the shop. JOHN ROBERT CUFFLEY.I was present,and saw the stockings and other things found in The prisoners box-she first said she bought them in Oxford-street,and then she said she gave 8s.6d for them to a young man in the shop;I remarked,that if she has bought them in the shop,she would have got them for 6s,for that was the price marked upon them. Prisoners Defence.I bought two pairs of stockings of a young man in the shop,one Saturday evening,and paid 13s for them;I was not present at the time my box was searched-my things were all out upon the bed when I first saw them. GUILTY.Aged 26 Transported for Fourteen Years.