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

13th October 1708

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Mary Booth, alias Mary Service proceedingsdefend , of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate , was Indicted for feloniously stealing 20 Yards of strip'd Muslin value 4 l. 10 s. the Goods of Walley Mayne proceedingsvictim , on the 5th Instant. The Evidence depos'd, that the Prisoner came into the Prosecutor's Shop to buy some printed Linnen; That the Prosecutor and his Servant suspecting her to be a Shop-lifter, had their Eyes upon her, while they were treating with other Company, That they saw her draw the Goods from under some Callico, and put them under her Petticoats; that being immediately charg'd with the Fact, she let them drop from her. The Fact being plain, the Jury found her Guilty of the Indictment.

[Death. See summary.]




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