Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th July 1713
Elizabeth
Hall
proceedingsdefend
and
Mary
Tomson
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, were both indicted for
privately stealing Muslen to the value of 15 s. from the Shop of
Thomas
Clark
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, on the 8th of June
last. It appear'd, that the two Prisoners came to the Prosecutor's Shop and cheapen'd Muslen, but not agreeing with the Prosecutor's Servant, went away; when gone the Goods were missing, but being pursu'd and brought back, the Muslen drop'd from Elizabeth Hall in the Shop. The Prisoners saying little in their Defence, the Jury found them both
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
[Whipping. See summary.]