Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

26th February 1783

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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.




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