Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd December 1817
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.