Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th December 1708
Mary
Salter
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Mary Savoy
, was Indicted for
privately stealing 11 half Yards of Scotch strip'd Linnen Cloth, value 20 s. the Goods of
John
Pain
proceedingsvictim
, on the 20th of November
last. It appear'd that the Prisoner went to the Prosecutors Shop to cheapen Dyed Linnen, but watching her Opportunity, she took the Goods mention'd in the Indictment and convey'd them up her Petticoats
, but being pursu'd she drop'd them from her; the Jury found her
Guilty
of Felony.
[Death. See summary.]