Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th May 1719
Mary
Picket
proceedingsdefend
of St. Dunstan at Stepney
was indicted for
receiving stolen Goods from
John
Easton
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, convicted last Sessions for the same, knowing them to be stolen
. It fully appeared that the Goods were sold at a very low rate; but the Prisoner in her Defence pleaded, that she kept a Smith's Shop
, and that her Servant bought the Goods mentioned in the Indictment (which were 3 Iron Bars) in her absence: She also called some to her Reputation, one who deposed he had known her 4 Years, had de alt with her for Pounds and always found her a very honest poor Woman. The Jury
Acquitted
her.