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

7th July 1784

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754. MARY BOYDEN proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 23d of June last, two pewter pint pots, value 2 s. the property of Thomas Wealthdale proceedingsvictim .

THOMAS WEALTHDALE < no role > sworn.

I am a publican , I keep the Ship and Star, Rosemary-lane ; on the 23d of June I lost two pewter pint pots, I missed them between six and seven in the evening, the prisoner came in, my wife called out there is somebody taking the pots, I run out and caught her about a hundred yards from my house, and she dropped two pots a quart and a pint, and then we brought her to my house, and we found three more upon her, two of mine, they were concealed under her clothes.

(The pots produced and deposed to.)

JAMES BARKER < no role > sworn.

I am constable, I know the prisoner very well, I took these two pint pots from her.

GUILTY .

To be confined to hard labour six months in the House of Correction .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. ROSE.




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