Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th April 1715
Mary
Abbot
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Mildred in the Poultry
, was indicted for
privately stealing 18 s. in Money, and a Silver Seal, value 2 s.
from the Person of
Samuel
Garal
proceedingsvictim
, on the 29th of March
last. The Prosecutor swore, That about 9 at Night he was pick'd up in the Street by the Prisoner and another, with whom he drank three Pints of Wine, and afterwards rode with them in a Coach into Fleerstreet, where he was set down, and miss'd his Money; and about a Week after, he met her in the Street, and siez'd her. He own'd he was in Drink, and the Prisoner bringing Witness that she was at home all that Evening the Fact was done, she was
acquitted
.