Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th July 1724
Mary
Vickery
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Sepulchres
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing the Goods of
Mary
Ball
proceedingsvictim
, the 5th of this present July
. The Prosecutor depos'd, she employ'd the Prisoner as a Chair Woman
, and she put the Ring into a Mortar, and she having scoured the Brass, the Ring was taken away; that taxing the Prisoner with it, she deny'd it; but she found the Ring in the Prisoner's Pocket. The Fact being plainly prov'd, the Jury found her
guilty to the value of 10 d.
Transportation
.