Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
5th December 1744
22.
Hannah
Roffe
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing a shift, value 7 s.
the goods of
Mary
Thresher
proceedingsvictim
, October 31
.
Ann
Hilliard
< no role >
. I am a washerwoman: I missed a shift off my line about four o'clock in the afternoon: the Prisoner had the shift under her cloak, and my sister and I took it from her.
Ann
Farmborough
< no role >
. I saw the Prisoner come out of the entry, and I said to her, good woman what do you want? She made no answer; so I thought she was hard of hearing. I called to Mrs. Hilliard, and the shift was taken from under her apron.
Guilty 10 d.
[Whipping. See summary.]