Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th October 1687
Elizabeth
Handford
proceedingsdefend
, was Tryed for
stealing a Tankard, value 6 l.
on the 27th of July
last, from
Robert
Mahew
proceedingsvictim
, of the Parish of St. Alhallows Staining
: Upon Tryal the Evidence against her was, that she in the Company of a Man unknown, coming into the house of the Prosecutor, and calling for Drink, took a convenient time when the Woman that drew it was in the Celler to slip away with the Tankard; but she pleading ignorance, and bringing some persons to testifie her being out of Town the day the Tankard was sworn to be stolen, and that she had never absented or absconded her self upon that occasion, the Jury concluded the Witness might be mistaken in the person, and so
acquitted
her.