Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th July 1723
Eleanor
Jackson
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Catherine's-Creed-Church
, was indicted for
privately stealing a Guinea, and 9 Shillings, from the Person of
Robert
Sparrow
proceedingsvictim
, the 5th of June
last. Robert Sparrow depos'd, That being in Liquor, he was pick'd up by her, and went into a little sort of a Court, where he was a little more familiar than he ought to have been, and he had his Mony in his Pocket when he met with her, and immediately upon parting with her he missed his Money, and that she being apprehended it was found upon her. The Prisoner deny'd she took it, and said, there was another Woman with her, which the Prosecutor pick'd up, and were privately together in a Court, and that the Many she had taken about her, was sent by her Husband. The Prosecutor own'd he was pretty much in Liquor. The Jury
acquitted
her.