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

25th February 1713

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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.

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