Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1755
320. ( M.)
Amelia
Stevens
proceedingsdefend
, spinster
, was indicted for
stealing one pair of leather pumps , val. 4 s.
the goods of
Edward
Frost
proceedingsvictim
, Aug. 19
. ++
The prosecutor is a shoemaker
. The pumps were at his window hanging upon two pins at nine o'clock in the morning on the 19th of August: they were missed about two; the prisoner was seen to take them by a neighbour , who informed the prosecutor of it. The prisoner was taken up, and confessed she had taken them, and had pawned them, but said she was drunk, and did not know where.
Guilty
.
[Transportation. See summary.]