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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 December 2023), January 1830, trial of                   ANN                   JONES                                                                            (t18300114-188).<hr/><h2>ANN JONES, Theft &gt; pocketpicking, 14th January 1830. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>422.                                  ANN                   JONES                                                                                        was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 10th of December                     , 5 sovereigns and 1 half-sovereign, the monies of                                                                         Theodore Peter                            Couture                                                                                                                                                            , from his person            .</p>               <p>THEODORE PETER COUTURE. On the 10th of December, I saw the prisoner in Holborn, at one o'clock in the morning, with another female, and we had a quartern of gin; I went with the prisoner to her room - I had this money in a pocket-book, and some silver in my breeches' pocket; I went to bed, and left my pocket-book in my coat-pocket, and my coat on a chair - I did not awake till eleven o'clock in the day; the prisoner never came to bed at all - when I awoke, my coat was there, but I missed the pocket-book; I inquired where I could find the prisoner- they said, in Little Shire-lane; I went, and found her and two other females - I went back to the house where I had slept, with the officer, and found the pocket-book in the bed, but the money was gone.</p>               <p>EDWARD GONOND. I am a Police-officer. On the morning of the 10th of December, the prosecutor gave charge of the prisoner; she denied the charge.</p>               <p>                                                      NOT GUILTY            .</p>            </div>
				
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