Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), April 1745, trial of MARY Cut and Come-again (t17450424-31)

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[Mary Cut and Come-Again was found guilty and sentenced to death on 24 April 1745]

MARY Cut and Come-again, of St Ann's Westminster, spinster, was indicted for assaulting  Elizabeth Turner widow […] taking from her an apron, value 6 d. […] March 27th.

Elizabeth Turner: On the 27th of May [sic] - I can't tell the name of the month, it was the month before this, between 7 and 8 at night, as I was going along Leicester-fields, there were some people singing of ballads, and I stopped to hear the ballad singing.

Q. Was the prisoner singing of ballads?

Turner. No, I stopped, and the prisoner stopped too; there was some talk of her being a ballad singer,  but then she only stood to hear. And as I was standing there, she cut my apron off my sides and took my bundle that was in my apron from me, and she hit me a slap on the face, and run away.

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Prisoner. I sing ballads for my living, I don't deny it, but, my Lord, how could she come so far as from Leicester fields to Monmouth street, and not cry out stop thief before?

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