Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
18th February 1775
235. (2d M.)
ANN, the wife
of
ROBERT
PETTIN
< no role >
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing a scarlet cloak, value eight shillings, two linen shifts, value five shillings, four linen handkerchiefs, value six-pence, two muslin handkerchiefs, value four-pence, and six linen clouts, value sixpence
, the property of
Dorothy
Olive
proceedingsvictim
, widow
, January 13
. ||
Dorothy
Olive
< no role >
. The prisoner came into my house about five or six in the evening, about the time I lost my goods, I suspected she had taken the things, I apprehended her, and she confessed she had taken them, and directed me to the place where she had pawned them, I found them there, but the pawnbroker could not be sure as to the person that pawned them.
Prisoner's Defence.
I leave myself to the mercy of the court.
Guilty of stealing to the value of ten-pence
.
[Transportation. See summary.]