Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th April 1708
Elizabeth
Kelly
proceedingsdefend
, of London Spinster
, was Indicted for
feloniously Stealing a Brass Porridge Pot, value 9 s.
the Goods of
John
Clark
proceedingsvictim
, of the Parish of St. Brides
on the 16th of March
last. The Evidence depos'd, that the Prisoner came to the Prosecutors Shop door, and took the Goods mention'd in the Indictment from the Prosecutors Stall Board, and went off with them, but being discover'd and pursu'd, the Goods were found upon her. The Prisoner could say little in her defence, nor produce any to her Reputation. The Jury found her
guilty of Felony to the value of 10 d.