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

10th December 1712

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Susan Meal proceedingsdefend and Anne Farrow proceedingsdefend were indicted for privately stealing half Pound weight of Belladine Silk value ten Shillings , the Goods of Thomas Fletcher proceedingsvictim , 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 .

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