Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th February 1712
Alice
Pendergrass
proceedingsdefend
,
Margaret
Gill
proceedingsdefend
Sen. and
Margaret
Gill
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Jun: of the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster
, were indicted for
stealing Money and Gold to a considerable Value
, from
Zacheus
Wisdom
proceedingsvictim
on the 8th of February
. The Evidence was Mrs. Wisdom, who depos'd, That the Prisoners coming to see her, she miss'd her Money, which was stoln from between the Bed and the Mat; and upon Search part of it was taken in Pendergrass's, and and part in Gill's Lodging, which was produc'd in Court. The Matter being very plain against them, the two first were found
Guilty
, and the other being a Girl
, was young
acquitted
.
[Branding. See summary.]