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Facts and Events
References
- Proceeding of the Old Bailey, 29 May 1793 -
ELIZABETH CALDCLEUGH sworn.
My husband's name is Alexander. I was going into Covent-garden on Friday the 15th of April last, with Mr. Caldcleugh and his brother, between four and five in the afternoon, we were going in at the entrance in Bow-street , we were going to the pit; the doors were not open; we stood there about one minute, not more; there was no body standing behind me; the prisoner was on my right hand; I felt something at my pocket; I put my hand immediately in my pocket and seized her hand in the bottom of my right hand pocket; I immediately missed my pocket book by the weight of it; I kept her hand fast; I immediately called out, this woman has picked my pocket; my husband came round and seized the prisoner's right hand, and I never let go her left hand, which was in my pocket; on looking I found my petticoat was cut down the whole length of my pocket, my pocket hole before was very short; the pocket was hanging out of the hole she had cut, my watch was in the bottom of that pocket where I felt her hand, she had got hold of the watch when I laid hold of her; the pocket book was found in the evening of that day. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Caldcleugh Burials
- ↑ Elizabeth Beatson Baptism, dau. of Peter, deceased, and Mary
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