MARY WALTERS.
28th October 1789
Reference Numbert17891028-88
VerdictGuilty
SentenceTransportation

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828. MARY WALTERS was indicted for stealing, on the 16th of October last, a cotton shawl, value 1 s. a pair of cotton stockings, value 6 d. the property of Thomas Barber .

THOMAS BARBER sworn.

I am a muffin maker ; I keep a chandler's shop; I was walking in my parlour about four, on the 16th of this month; I saw the line move in my back yard; I walked again to the window, and saw a hand take a pair of stockings from the line; I went out of the shop door into the passage, and met the prisoner.

RICHARD ROBINS sworn.

I was coming by; I assisted the prosecutor, and took the stockings out of the prisoner's pocket; the prisoner is the woman; I gave the stockings to Mr. Barber.

- ELLIOT sworn.

I am the constable; the prosecutor gave me these stockings, and I took this shawl out of the prisoner's pocket; she would give no account how she came by them.

(Produced and deposed to.)

Prisoner. I have nothing to say.

GUILTY .

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.


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