Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th October 1720
Elizabeth
Firth
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, of St. Martins in the Fields
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing a Poplin Gown and Petticoat value 8 s. a Camblet Gown and Petticoat value 6 s. A pair of Stayes 2 s. a Silk Hood 1 s. and 5 s. in Money
, the Goods and Money of
George
Leadbeater
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, on the 12th of September
last. It appeared that the Prisoner was the Prosecutor's Lodger
, took the Goods and went away with them; that she was taken 4 Days afterwards, and the Goods found upon her, which were produced in Court, and owned by the Prosecutor. The Jury found her
Guilty
.
Transportation
.