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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 December 2023), September 1782, trial of                      ELEANOR                      M'CABE                                                                               (t17820911-68).<hr/><h2>ELEANOR M'CABE, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 11th September 1782. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>552.                                                       ELEANOR                      M'CABE                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          stealing on the 27th of July last, 15 s. in monies numbered            , the monies of                                                       William                      Austin                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>                                                WILLIAM                   AUSTIN                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I met the prisoner and another person on a Saturday, I cannot justly say the month, about six weeks ago between nine and ten in Newtoners lane                                                      .</p>               <p>Court. That is not a very reputable neighbourhood, is it? - No Sir, I believe not.</p>               <p>Court. What had you to do there? - I goes out with tatoes round there, they asked me for something to drink, I said I did not care if I did, they said I had better not go to a public house for fear I should lose my money, I went to their room.</p>               <p>Court. Was you sober? - It was a remarkable wet day, I had drank a little drop.</p>               <p>Court. Pray what do you call a little drop? - I had drank some gin with these women but I was sensible; when I got in I took and pulled my pouch out.</p>               <p>                  Court. What? - My pouch, Sir, I gave one of them a shilling to fetch a pot of ale, in the mean time the prisoner snatched my pouch and run away with it, there was fifteen shillings in it, I went after them but could not find them; I found them next morning in St. Giles's round house, I never got my money; I asked her to give me my money, she said here is two pence halfpenny for you that is all I have left.</p>               <p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>               <p>On Saturday night I met this William two girls together, quarrelling about, ten pence, he went into my room and sent for a pot of ale, he asked me to live with I him, and gave me the money into my hand, there was nothing freer than a gift it. I have no witnesses.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY            .</p>               <p>                                                                                                To be confined six months in the house of correction            .</p>               <p>the Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice GOULD.</p>            </div>
				
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