Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd September 1719
Mary
Tame
proceedingsdefend
, of Harrow on the Hill
in the County of Middlesex, was indicted for the
Murther of
Elizabeth
Tame
proceedingsvictim
her Sister of about two Years of Age, by throwing her into a Pond , and Choaking and Drowning her
. She was also indicted a second time on the Coroners Inquest for the same. It appeared by the Evidence that the Prisoner was an Ideot , and being left to look after her Sister (as she told the Evidence) went to wash her Face at the Pond, and let her fall in. The Jury considering the Matter
acquitted
her.