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

5th December 1718

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Sarah Smith proceedingsdefend and Mary Mitchel proceedingsdefend , 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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