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

26th February 1783

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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.




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