Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1712
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
.