Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th December 1712
Elizabeth
White, alias
Wells, alias
Dyer
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3122.
, of the Parish of St. Dunstan in the East
, was indicted for
breaking the House of
Adam
Hays
proceedingsvictim
on the 23d of October
last, and stealing a Leather Bag, 33 Broad-pieces of Gold call'd Carolus's 2 Jacobus's and other Gold, and 14 l Guineas, a Silver Tankard, valued 8 l a Cup 3 l. and 100 l. in Money
. The Prosecutor swore, that the Prisoner came in as a Servant
the Day before; and he and his Wife being abroad, she went away with the Money and Goods, and upon pursuit was found, and the Bags, and most part of the Money recover'd.
The Felony was very plainly prov'd, but the Jury thought fit to acquit her of the Burglary
.
[Branding. See summary.]