Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th February 1783
187.
MARY
JACKSON
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 19th of February
instant, two quart pewter pots, value 2 s.
the goods of
Hugh
Beach
proceedingsvictim
.
SARAH
MOSELY
< no role >
sworn.
On the 19th of February, at nine in the morning, I saw the prisoner take these two quart pots, belonging to the prosecutor from No. 23, in Dartmouth-row
; and and she took them away; the servant came down and said, she had lost two quart pots, says I, Sally, that woman has got them, we pursued after her, and she ran into a house where the door stood open; I am sure of the prisoner.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I did not touch any of the pots; I was going to enquire for a woman who makes soldiers clothes, I went into the wrong house, I said, I wanted one Nickson, I have no witnesses.
GUILTY
.
To be
privately whipped and discharged
.
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice BULLER.