Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
1st March 1721
Rebecca
Butler , alias
Neal
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Giles without Cripplegate
, was indicted for
privately stealing a Wooden Snuff Box value 6 d. 2 Gold Rings value 14 s. and 12 s. 6 d. in Money from the Person of
John
Whitburn
proceedingsvictim
, on the 30th of January
last. The Prosecutor deposed that the Prisoner pickt him up, run him into the White-House Inn without Cripplegate
, and while he was asleep pickt his Money and Snuff-Box out of his Pocket, but her pulling off the last Ring from his Finger waked him, and he secured her; that she gave the Snuff-Box to the Watchman to let her go; that she dropt 6 s. 6 d. 1/2. which the Watchman pickt up, and pawned one of the Rings at the Compter for 5 s. that she told him if he would not prosecute her she would give him his Rings again. The Constable confirmed her dropping the Money as she was going to the Compter.
Henry
Smith
< no role >
deposed, that he received the Snuff-Box (which was produced in Court, and swore to by the Prosecutor) from the Prisoner. The Jury found her
Guilty
.
Death
.