Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th February 1783
188.
MARY
RUSSEL
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
feloniously stealing on the 20th of February
instant, one glass quart bottle, value 2 d. and one quart of pickled mushrooms, value 14 s.
the goods of
Richard
Gowers
proceedingsvictim
.
THOMAS
CUBITT
< no role >
sworn.
I am servant to Mr. Gowers, he has a place under the Lord Chancellor, and cannot attend. On the 20th of this month, the prisoner came into my master's shop, she enquired for a taylor, and stopped about three minutes; and I saw my master take the bottle of mushrooms from under her cloak; she did not buy any thing; I know them to be my master's property by the cement on the bottle: she said, she did not know how they came under her cloak.
CHARLES DELAGAL
Produced the mushrooms which had been in his possession ever since.
GUILTY
.
On the recommendation of the Jury to be
privately whipped and discharged
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.