Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

10th September 1712

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Margaret Guest proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of Stepney , was indicted for breaking the House of John Garrard proceedingsvictim , the 12th of August last, in the Day-time, no Person being therein, and stealing thence Linen and other Goods . The Prosecutor swore she went a milking, and lock'd her door; and when she came home found it open, and her Goods gone. The Prisoner being seiz'd before she came home, with part of the Goods upon her, was had before Mr. Justice Johnson, to whom she confess'd the Felony; but the Burglary not being sufficiently prov'd, she was acquitted of that .




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