Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1719
Amy
Furnace
proceedingsdefend
and
Mary
Harding
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Buttolph Aldgate
were indicted
privately stealing printed Linnen value 48 s. in the Shop
of
William
Lawrence
proceedingsvictim
the 5th of this Instant January
. It appeared by the Evidence the Prisoners came to the Prosecutors Shop under pretence of buying a Shift, and then wanted to see Linnen, and were perceived one slily to draw away the Linnen from off the Counter, and let it fall, and the other to take it up and conceal of The fact being plainly prov'd upon them, the Jury found them each
guilty to the value of 10 d.
Transportation
.