Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

7th July 1697

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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.]




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