Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
18th April 1710
Mary
Barlow
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
Feloniously Stealing three silver-hafted Knives, three silver-hasted Forks, and three silver Spoons
, the Goods of
Anthony
Burridge
proceedingsvictim
, on the 7th of January
last: It appear'd, that the Prisoner came to the Prosecutor's House, and desired to speak with him; but being told by the Servant he was not stirring, she desired to stay, and being left in the Kitchen, she took the Goods, and went away without speaking to the Prosecutor: That she afterwards sold the Goods to a Goldsmith, who gave Information of the same to the Prosecutor; they were produced in Court, and proved to be his: The Evidence being plain, and the Prisoner saying nothing in her Defence, the Jury found her
Guilty of Felony
.
[Branding. See summary.]