Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th December 1712
Susan
Meal
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and
Anne
Farrow
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were indicted for
privately stealing half Pound weight of Belladine Silk value ten Shillings
, the Goods of
Thomas
Fletcher
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, on the 3d instant. The Evidence swore, that they came into the Prosecutor's Shop, and bought some Cadis and a Lace; and that while Farrow had the Boy aside, Meal stole the Silk, which being seen, she was pursu'd and taken, and was seen to drop theSilk; whereupon she was found
guilty
of Shop-lifting; but the Evidence not being full against Farrow, she was
acquitted
.
[Death -respited for pregnancy. See summary.]