Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
13th October 1708
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.]