Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th July 1713
John
Parker
proceedingsdefend
and
Catherine
Jones
proceedingsdefend
of St. Giles's without Cripplegate
, were indicted for
privately stealing two Callico Shirts, the Goods of
Elizabeth
Meers
proceedingsvictim
, Widow
, from the Shop of
William
Kingston
< no role >
, on the 16th of April
last. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Prisoners came into the Prosecutor's Shop, and ask'd for Callico; that at the same time an Alehouse Woman came in for her Pot; and while the Wife of the Prosecutor turn'd her Back for it, Jones took the Goods and went off with them. The Fact being plain against her, the Jury found her
Guilty of Felony
; but nothing appearing against Parker she was
acquitted
.
[Branding. See summary.]
[Imprisonment. See summary.]