Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
30th November 1814
1.
MARY
RUSSELL
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was indicted, and the indictment stated, that
at the General Delivery of the Goal of Newgate, holden for the City of London, she was tried and convicted in July Sessions, and was sentenced by the Court to be in jail one year and to find sureties for two years more, and the indictment stated, that you having been before convicted of being a common utterer of counterfeit money, afterwards one piece of false and counterfeit money, made to the likeness and similitude of a good sixpence, unlawfully did utter to one
Henry
Davies
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, you knowing it to be false and counterfeit
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To this indictment the prisoner pleaded
GUILTY
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DEATH
, aged 42.
First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.