Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th June 1717
Martha
Wadsworth
proceedingsdefend
and
Mary
Hambleton
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3216.
,were indicted for
feloniously stealing 2 Stuff Gowns, value 15 s.
the Property of
Dorothy
Coats
proceedingsvictim
, the 7th of May
last. The evidence deposed, that seeing the Prisoner Wadsworth come out of the Prosecutors house with the gowns, they dogged her to a pawnbroker's and apprehended her. The Prisoner said the prosecutor gave her the Goods to pawn for her. This appearing but a Pretence, the Jury found Wadsworth
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
and
acquitted
Hambleton.
[Whipping. See summary.]