Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th February 1783
189.
MARY
WILLS
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3206.
was indicted for
feloniously stealing on the 9th of February
instant, one quart pewter pot, value 12 d. and one pint pewter pot, value 6 d.
the property of
John
Scandret
proceedingsvictim
.
JOHN
SCANDRET
< no role >
sworn.
The prisoner came to my house, and ordered some purl to go to a customer, and desired me to let her have it in a half gallon pot, I asked if the half gallon pot was in the way, it was not, and she took it out with her in a quart and a pint, and paid eight-pence for it.
ELIZABETH
WELLS
< no role >
sworn.
I saw the prisoner stand in Church-yard alley near the chapel door, I saw her stoop down and throw the liquor away: she was taken near Nevil's-court, she had the pots then, a quart pot under her right arm, and a pint under her left.
(The pots deposed to.)
PRISONER.
I have nothing to say.
GUILTY. Of stealing to the value of 9 d
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.