Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

11th July 1694

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Osbert Oglevey proceedingsdefend and Henry Sherry proceedingsdefend were Tried, for that they with Lawrence Spencer < no role > before tried, did break the House of Richard Hutton proceedingsvictim Gent. on the 6th of May last, and took away a Coat, value 3 l. a Bever Hat, 50 s a Cloth Gown, with several other Rich Goods . They broke open the Window, and came into the House, threatning to kill Mr. Hutton. There were in all seven of them, and they had Vizard Caps on which came over their Faces with Mouth-holes and Eye-holes, of divers Colours, very frightful to behold. So they Rifled the House, after they had bound the Family, and took away to the value of 100 l as you may see in the single Tryal of Lawrence Spencer. Another Evidence was Mrs. May, whose Husband was Executed last Sessions, who said she had seen the Prisoners have such sorts of Vizard-Caps, which they commonly changed among each other, and that the Prisoners had some of the Goods in their custody that her Husband had his share being with them in the Robbery: But the Evidence seemed not very credible in the Jury's Opinion, she alledging what her Husband told her before his death, which was no Evidence in Law: So they were acquitted .




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