Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th July 1697
Susan
Farrow
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Lawrence Jury
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing two silver Salts, and a Beaker
, the Goods of
Richard
Fenny
proceedingsvictim
, on the 28th of February
last; to which Indictment she
pleaded guilty
.
She was a Second time indicted for
Felony and Burglary for breaking the House of Richard Fenny, on the 17th of June
last, with an intent to steal his Goods
. The Evidence was a little Boy, who said, that as he was going to bed about a little after Ten, he saw the back part of the Prisoner under his Master's Cutting-board; he cried out, and she made her escape upon the Leads, where she was taken: The Prisoner said that she had no intent to steal; and nothing being found upon her, the Jury
acquitted
her.
[Branding. See summary.]