Death and transportation

In 1741... highwayman John Car was sentenced to death after mugging a man in a park for four shillings and shooting him in the eye. Passersby ran Car down, and when one of his pursuers asked why he had done it, the thief offered an explanation worthy of Dickens: "Money, if you had been here, I would have served you the same."

In 1761, Thomas Daniels was convicted of murder for throwing his naked wife, Sarah, out of a third-story window one August night after returning from a pub. But he won a pardon after documenting his spouse's vicious temper and claiming that, on the night in question, she whacked him over the head with an unidentified object, then ran to the window and "flew out."

From a piece about the Proceedings of the Old Bailey having been made available online:

Working with grants totaling some $1.26 million, historians Robert Shoemaker of the University of Sheffield and Tim Hitchcock of the University of Hertfordshire have digitized the 52 million words of the Proceedings - and put them in a searchable database for anyone to read on the Internet.

The Proceedings are here. I used the search facility on the names 'Senior' and 'Nightingale', and turned up these two stories:

Ann Senior of St. Mary-le-bone was indicted for feloniously stealing three Guineas, in the Dwelling House of Samuel Thresher.

The Prosecutor depos'd, That he had taken the Prisoner in as his Servant, and that missing his Money out of a Chest of Drawers, he had Suspicion on her, and sent one to enquire after her character, and that in the Interim the Prisoner ran away, but pursuing, he took her before a Magistrate, where she confess'd the Fact, and returned two Guineas.

Anne Cornish confirmed the Evidence of the Prosecutor, by making Oath that the Prisoner confess'd, the Fact to her, and that she was present when the Prisoner returned Part of the Money, confessing at the same Time, that she had dropp'd the other Part in a Value. These plain Evidences, and the Prisoner having nothing to say in her Defence, she was found Guilty. Death.
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Elizabeth Lott of the Parish of the St. Buttolph without Algate, was indicted for breaking the House of John Nightingale about Four in the Afternoon, there being no body in the House, on the 23d day of November, and taking thence one Cloath Coat, value 1 l. a Calamanca Wastcoat, 1 l. 7 s. two Cloath Petticoats, 12 s. three Flaxen Sheets, 1 l. three Womens Shifts, 18 s. one Crape Gown, 15 s. and divers other Goods. It appeared, That Mr. Nightingale came home to Dinner about One a Clock, and when he went out he locked the Door after him, and when he came home at Night, found his Door open, and his Goods gone; but being told by some of his Neighbours, That there was seen a Woman with a Bundle of Goods, who they mistrusted went down the Alley into Bishopsgate-street-street, and called for a Coach, and the Coach-man drove her to the Coach and Horses in Leather-Lane, where part of the Goods were found and owned to be the Prosecutors. The Prisoner said she was hired to carry them, but could not prove it; the Jury found her guilty. Transportation.

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