Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
25th February 1713
Abigal
Douglas
proceedingsdefend
of the Parish of St. Leonard Eastcheap
, was indicted for
privily stealing 48 yards of Worsted Stuff out of the Shop of
Henry
Gerrard
proceedingsvictim
on the 27th of January
last. The Prosecutor's Servant swore, That the Prisoner with two other Women came under pretence to buy; and mistrusting he had lost something; he follow'd them, and saw them part in the Street, the two others going one way, and the Prisoner another; whereupon he pursu'd and took her, and brought her back to the Shop, where she dropt the Goods from under her Pettycoats. She could make no Defence, nor produce any to her Reputation, and was found
Guilty
of the Indictment.
[Death. See summary.]