Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th May 1719
Elizabeth
Welbraham
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Andrews Holbourn
was indicted for
feloniously stealing 3 Gold Rings value 50 s. and 2 Sarsenet Hood value 6 s. out of the Lodging of
Katharine
Laycock
proceedingsvictim
on the 12th of April
last. It appeared that the Prosecutor dealt in Old Shoes, and clean'd Shoes for some Gentlemen, and that as she was carrying home some of her Masters Shoes on the Sunday, was taken up by the Informers and carried to the Compar, that she sent for her Daughter, and gave her the Keys of her Drawers, bidding her take one of her Rings and raise some Money on it to pay her Fees, and likewise lent the Prisoner, who lodg'd with her, a Gown and Petticoat,(her own Clothes being ragged) to appear in her behalf before the Justice, which she did; that her Daughter had left the Keys behind her on the Drawers, and when she came home she mist her Rings; but there being no Evidence to fix it on the Prisoner, the Jury
Acquitted
her.