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

27th February 1760

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121. (M.) Susannah Hanby proceedingsdefend , widow , was indicted for stealing one pig, value 8 s. the property of Allen Spensley proceedingsvictim , February 15 . ++

Allen Spensley < no role > . I lost a pig; the watchman brought the prisoner and a pig to my house. I cannot swear to the pig because it was dead.

Samuel Bishop < no role > . The prisoner came to my stand about three o'clock in the morning, in Long-Lane. I asked her what she had got, she said she had got a pig. I look'd and saw a dead pig. I asked her where she had it, she said at Mr. Spensley's. I insisted on her going to the watch-house to know whether she came honestly by it.

Thomas Andrews < no role > . Mr. Bishop desired me to go to Mr Spensley's, at Clerkenwell, to ask if he had sold a pig to a woman. I went, and he said he had not sold one, but he had lost one.

The prosecutor's man swore that the pig was his master's property.

Prisoner's Defence.

I am not guilty.

Guilty .

[Transportation. See summary.]




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