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

6th June 1717

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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.]




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