Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
4th December 1728
Margaret
Wilkinson
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
privately stealing a piece of black Ribband, and a piece of white Forret, on the 25th of October
last, the Goods of
Thomas
Nowell
proceedingsvictim
, out of the Shop of the said
Thomas
Nowell
< no role >
.
It appeared by the Oath of
Thomas
Pickering
< no role >
, Servant to the Prosecutor, that the Prisoner came to the Shop and bought several Remnants of Ribband, but he missing the Goods mentioned in the Indictment, fetched a Constable, who found the Goods upon her, which being confirm'd by the Constable, the Jury found her
Guilty to the Value of 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]