[Excerpt from "The New England Courant", 25 Dec to 1 Jan 1725]
[excerpted 14 Jun 2006, Mark Murphy]

The Author of The Life of Jonathon Wild, concludes his Account of him with what
we publish'd in our last....

From the Session's Papers. May. 1725.
Jonathon Wild, of St. Andrew's Holborn, was indicted for privately stealing...

Henry Kelly thus deposed: In January last I went to see Mrs. Johnston, at Mr. Wild's:
Her Husband brought me over from Ireland; upon which Account I wanted to speak with
her.  I found her at home, and we drank a Quarters of Holland's Gin together.  By
and by in comes Mrs. MURPHY with a Pair of broaded Shoes and Clogs and Presented 
them to Mrs. Wild.  The Prisoner was in Company.  We drank two or three Quarters
more, and then I and Mrs. MURPHY got up to go away together....