Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th October 1720
Elizabeth
Fowlis , alias
Thewlis
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Peters Cornhill
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing a Cloth Coat and Wastcoat, and other Goods to the value of 4 l. in the Dwelling House of
Thomas
Prime
proceedingsvictim
, on the 1st of this Instant October
. The Prosecutor deposed that the Prisoner was his Servant
, and while he was at his Country Lodgins at Hackney, she took the Goods, and carrying them to pawn without Temple Bar was stopt by the Pawnbroker.
Abraham
Bibbin
< no role >
deposed, that the Prisoner brought the Goods to him to pawn, but, he suspecting her, examined her how she came by them. and she confest they were her Master's, and where she lived; whereupon he secured her. The Prisoner in her Defence said that she did not take them with a felonious Intent, but designed to have fetcht them again. The Jury considering the matter, found her
Guilty to the value of 10 d
.
To be Whipt
.