Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd September 1719
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
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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.