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

3rd September 1719

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Elizabeth Herbet proceedingsdefend of St. James's Westminster , and Ann Brittle proceedingsdefend of St. Giles in the Fields were indicted, the former for feloniously stealing a Gold Watch and Chain value 30 l. from Elizabeth Lady Lumley proceedingsvictim , on the 15th of July last; and Ann Brittle for receiving the same, knowing them to be stole . The Lady Lumley deposed that she lost her Watch from her side going out of her Coach in the Pall-Mall . A Constable deposed, that he hearing a loose Girl was selling a Gold Watch to Ann Brittle in Newtonors Lane, carryed her before a Justice, and she refusing to deliver it, was sent to the Round-House; that Herbers at one time Lid she found it in Pall-mall, and kicks it before her, and afterwards that she found it on the Steps of an Oil Shop, the Sign of the Three Neats Tongues in Pall-Mall ,(where my Lady went in from her Coach, when she lost it) and that other Girls carried her to Ann Brittle. Jonathan Wild < no role > This name instance is in set 3033. deposed that he was imployed to enquire for it and while he was looking it the Prisoner Brittle came to his House to acquint him that a Girl had found a Gold Watch, and that it would come cheap. The Watch was produc'd in Court, and own'd by my Lady. The Prisoner Britle deposed, that the Girl told her she found it upon the Pav d Stones in Pall-Mall, and that she carried it to Jonathan Wild < no role > , as he before related. The Jury Acquitted them.




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