Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th September 1714
Mary
Pooley
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Andrew Holborn
, was indicted for
stealing a Gold Ring, Value 28 s.
the Goods of
Joseph
Holiday
proceedingsvictim
. It was prov'd, That the Prisoner going to visit Holiday's Wife sent her to fetch a Pot of Drink; and while she was gone, stole the Ring out of a Window where it lay, and went away with it. She had little to say in her Defence, and was found
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
[Whipping. See summary.]