Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th July 1784
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.