Jane Holms proceedingsdefend of St. Michael Crooked Lane , was indicted for privately stealing out of the Shop of Samuel Wilson proceedingsvictim , 1 Gross of Pearl Buttons, value 10 s. on the 20 of June last. Joseph Lock < no role > depos'd, that the prisoner came into his Master's Shop with a Basket, which she set upon the Compter, where 3 or 4 Gross of Buttons were pil'd up; she bought a Penknife, which she paid for, and went away. That he followed the prisoner, and found a Gross of Buttons in her Basket. The prisoner in her Defence said, there were People in the Shop, by whom her Basket was thrown down, and she believed the Goods were thrown into it unknown to her. Guilty to the value of 4s. and 10d .

[Transportation. See summary.]