Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), June 1733, trial of Mary Cotterel (t17330628-20)

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[Mary Cotterel was accused of robbing Aaron Newbolt; she was found not guilty on 28 June 1733]

Aaron Newbolt: On Tuesday night the 25th of June, I was with the Society of London Scholars (Bell-Ringers) at the Cock and Lion, in St. Michael's-Alley, Cornhill, where I stay'd till one in the Morning [...] My Business requiring me to be up at 3 in the Morning, and I seeing a Light at the George Alehouse , I thought it would be better to fit up there, than to go to bed for an Hour or two, and so I went in, and call'd for a Mug of Ale, and afterwards for a Quartern of Brandy, and sung  a Song or two. The Prisoner and her Husband and another Man and Woman were sitting together, and when I had paid my reckoning and was going, the Prisoner's Husband ask'd me, if I would not drink with them? Yes, I said, I am not Charish. […]  I went out and stood to make water, when in a minute, I felt the Prisoner's Hand in my Pocket, I catch'd hold of her wrist, and heard the Money chink in her Hand, but before I could get it from her, she had shifted it to the other Woman who stood close to her. 

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 Prisoner [Mary Cotterel]: Did you go into the George with me, or the other Woman?

Prosecutor [Newbolt]: Upon my Oath I went in with no Woman but alone.

Prisoner. He went with her to one end of the Table, and sing'd a very fine Song to please Ladies, and then he brought her to us and sing'd another Song, and then he paid 6 d. and went out with her; and,  like a Jack-Aks as I was, went out to do what no Body could do for me, and the other Woman stumbled against me, and went away; and so he took me for her, and said, I had pick'd his Pocket[.]

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