Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
31st August 1687
Mary
Miller
proceedingsdefend
, of the parish of St. Clements Danes
, was Tryed for
picking the pocket of
John
Murphey
proceedingsvictim
, on the 3d of August
, of 6 l.
but it appearing a frivelous or rather malicious prosecution, thought to be grounded upon the Prisoner's having troubled one Captain Graunt, for the Kidnaping her Husband, and she giving a very good Account, of her Reputation, the Jury
Acquitted
her.