Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
5th December 1718
Sarah
Smith
proceedingsdefend
and
Mary
Mitchel
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, of St. Mildred Poultry
were indicted for
privately stealing 2 l. of Silk, value 36 s. in the Shop of
Henry
Wagstaff
proceedingsvictim
, the 26th of October
last. The Evidence deposed that the Prisoners came into the Prosecutors Shop to buy an Ounce of Silk of several colours, there being no body but a Boy and some other Customers in the Shop, they took the opportunity to steal the Silk, which being miss'd and perceiv'd by the Boy, he gave his Master notice of at his coming in, and Sarah Smith being search'd it was found in her Pocket. The Jury
acquitted
Mary Mitchel, and found Sarah Smith
guilty to the value of of 10. d.
Transportation
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