Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th January 1782
150.
EDWARD
DEAN
proceedingsdefend
was indicted, for
stealing, on the 15th of December
, two cotton gowns, value 14 s. two petticoats, several shifts, caps, and handkerchiefs, and one sattin cloak
, the goods of
Dorothy
Tranter
proceedingsvictim
and
Mary
Tranter
proceedingsvictim
.
Mary
Tranter
< no role >
deposed, she went out of her house the evening of the 15th of December, and left no body in it, she came back in a quarter of an hour, and found the door open, and the prisoner coming down with a bundle under his arm, between seven and eight o'clock.
Nicholas
Bannister
< no role >
deposed, that he stopped the prisoner upon the cry of stop thief, but he had dropped the bundle, which was about a yard from him.
GUILTY
.