Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

14th October 1724

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Mary Eustace proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Clement's Danes , was indicted for feloniously stealing a Mug in the Dwelling-House of Philip and Thomas Lambert proceedingsvictim proceedingsvictim proceedingsvictim the 3rd of September last. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Prisoner came to the Prosecutor's House, being the Fountain-Tavern in the Strand , to drink in Company of one George Austin < no role > a Bricklayer, and having drank 3 Pints of Wine and din'd there, had 3 Pints more after dinner, and a Mug being carried them with Drink, was immediately missing: That the Drawer having observed her when going out, to stoop and make some Motions with her Hands about her Coats, he suspected she had taken it, and she at her going away having ask'd him if he was a marry'd Man, telling him if he had occasion she was a Mantua-maker, and liv'd but over the Way, sent out the Porter in quest of her, he bringing Word where the Man and she were, he went and found the Man, calling a Coach, and going up into the Prisoner's Room found her in a stooping Posture; and immediately at his entering the Room the Mug drop'd from under her Coats, and he took it up. The Prisoner deny'd her stealing the Mug, but said George Austin set it down, in her Room, desiring it might stand there till he came back, he being going into the City, and he being gone down, she having occasion was going to make Water in it. The Jury found her guilty to the Value of 4 s. 10 d. Transportation .




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