Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th February 1696
Margaret
Poole
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Andrews Holbourn
, was indicted for
stealing from
Ann
Connaway
proceedingsvictim
, on the 16th of December
last, 7 Gold-rings, a Silver Bodkin, and other Goods
. It appeared that she put the said Goods into a Chest of Drawers, and that some time after the Prisoner was gone, she mist them; the Prisoner denied the Fact; and the Evidence not being positive that she took them, the Jury found her
not guilty
.