Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
5th December 1744
38. +
Lucy
Tanner
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, of St. Paul's Covent-Garden
, was indicted for
stealing two holland shirts, value 10 s. two petticoats, value 7 s. two cambrick caps laced, value 10 s. a cambrick handkerchief, value 5 s. a cambrick tucker laced, value 5 s. a pair of cambrick ruffles laced, value 5 s. and two checquered aprons, value 1 s. the goods of
Samuel
Price
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, and a stuff gown, value 2 s. the goods of
Sarah
Parks
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, in the dwelling-house of
Samuel
Price
< no role >
, Dec. 1st
.
Mary
Price
< no role >
. I have known the Prisoner ever since she was fourteen years old, I knew her to be a very honest girl formerly, and I let her live a fortnight in my house, out of mere charity, and respect to her, and I said she should live there till she could get a place; these things were found upon her.
Samuel
Price
< no role >
. I saw the Prisoner come down stairs, she had dressed herself in my wife's gown, and had got some things in a pillow case; I asked her what she had got there, she said clothes, I followed her into the street, and the things were taken from her.
James
Gray
< no role >
. The Constable produced the things which he said were taken from the Prisoner, and they were proved to be the property of Mr. Price.
Guilty 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]