Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

3rd December 1817

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1. MARY WILLIAMS proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 10th of October , one watch, value 2l., and one handkerchief, value 5s., the goods of Thomas Foley proceedingsvictim , from his person .

THOMAS FOLEY < no role > . On the 10th of October I went with the prisoner to her lodgings, in Church-lane, St. Giles's . Between three and four o'clock in the morning, I awoke and found her gone-the door was fastened. I missed my neck-handkerchief and watch from under my pillow; I found them at the pawnbroker's the same day. I met her in the street at night, and secured her. I am sure she is the same woman.

CHARLES HINDES < no role > . I am a pawnbroker. On the 11th of October, about nine o'clock in the morning, I took the watch in pledge of the prisoner - about an hour after she pledged the handkerchief; she said they belonged to her husband.

SAMUEL FURZEMAN. On the 11th of October the prisoner was brought into the watch-house; while I was searching her she dropped the duplicate of the handkerchief, and I found the duplicate of the watch upon her.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

Prisoner's Defence. He owed me 2l.

GUILTY. Aged 30.

Of Stealing, but not from the Person .

Transported for Seven Years .

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Bayley.




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