MARGARET MORING.
10th December 1783
Reference Numbert17831210-13
VerdictGuilty
SentenceDeath

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13. MARGARET MORING was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 24th day of November last, four pair of mens leather shoes value 14 s. the property of Richard Johnson , privily in his shop .

RICHARD JOHNSON sworn.

I am a shoemaker at No. 180, High Holborn ; I lost a great many shoes last month. On the 21st of last month the prisoner came into my shop, I told her never to come into my shop again; on the 24th she came again; she bought nothing: after she was gone we pursued her into Drury-lane, and took the shoes upon her.

ELEANOR JOHNSON sworn.

I had been over the way of an errand, and I saw the prisoner go into the shop and come out again; I ran over to my husband, and asked him if he had served any body in a blue cloak; he said, no; I pursued the prisoner down Drury-lane, I saw her give something to another woman in Drury-lane, then I tapped her on the shoulder, and said she must go into Holborn with me; she damned me and said she would not go with

me; I took those shoes from her, and she said she would stick me; I held her fast till my husband came up, and he took her up.

ANDREW JOHNSON sworn.

I sold these shoes to the prosecutor, they came from a factor in the country.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I never had any of the shoes.

Court. What is the value of those shoes? - The four pair fourteen shillings.

GUILTY , Death .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM .


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