Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
5th July 1727
Elizabeth
Lucas
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Leonards Shoreditch
, was indicted for
stealing a Linnen Gown, a Cotton Petticoat, and other wearing Apparel
, the Goods of
Elizabeth
Huoyes
proceedingsvictim
, which Goods she confest she had stolen and pawn'd with one Mitchel, a Pawnbroker in George Yard in Whitechapel, who refused to let the Prosecutor see the Goods or produce then at the Trial, though she made him sensible of the Affair; but 'tis hoped the just Measures the Court took with him on that Occasion may be a Lesson to the Gentlemen of that honest Prosession.
Guilty to the Val. of 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]