Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
23rd February 1715
Christian
Griffin
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Olave Hartstreet
, was indicted for
breaking the House of
John
Ive
proceedingsvictim
, on the 19th of January
, in the Night time, and stealing thence a Table-Cloth and a Napkin
. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Prisoner had been for Charity employ'd to go on Errands at the Prosecutor's House, till a Guinea being lost, she was suspected and turn'd away; and about half a Year afterwards the House was broke, and the Goods taken away as in the Indictment; upon which the former Suspicion encreasing, she was had before a Justice, where she confess'd both the Facts, but deny'd that she went into the House, and said one Dickenson went in, and took the Linnen, which she receiv'd. The Jury upon the whole matter found her
Guilty of Felony
.
[Branding. See summary.]