Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th October 1790
719.
EDWARD
LOWE
proceedingsdefend
and CATHERINE
his
wife
proceedingsdefend
, were indicted for
stealing, on the 10th day of May
last, a silk cloak, value 5 s.
the property of
Thomas
Bates
proceedingsvictim
.
The prisoner Edward having been capitally convicted, Mr. Garrow on the part of the prosecution, declined giving any evidence as to him; and also with respect to his wife, she being supposed to act under the direction and authority of her husband.
BOTH
NOT GUILTY
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.