Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
11th July 1694
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
.