Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
16th January 1752
109. (M.)
Christian
Loreham
proceedingsdefend
, spinster, was indicted for
stealing one cloth coat, value 6 s. the property of
John
Green
proceedingsvictim
, privately, in the shop of the said John
, Dec. 6. *
The prosecutor keeps a warehouse
in Cranbourne-Alley
, and sells Capuchins, Cloaks, &c. The prisoner had been there, October 20, and agreed for a cloak; after she was gone, the prosecutor's wife missed another. She went there again December 6, when she agreed for another, and paid 8 s. 6 d. for it; the prosecutor suspecting her before, watched her, and saw her put a cloak under hers, and had her searched in the shop.
Guilty 4 s. 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]