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

10th September 1712

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Thomas Davies proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Catharine Coleman , was indicted for stealing a Peruke, valued 3 s. and divers other Goods from Richard Clayton proceedingsvictim , on the 23d of July last. The Prosecutor depos'd, that the Prisoner was his Lodger, and went away of a sudden, and the Goods were missing, Mrs. Clayton swearing they were in the Room the Afternoon before he went. After some enquiry, he was found in Purpool-lane, and several concurring Circumstances appearing to make him guilty, and none to his Reputation, he was found guilty to the value of 10 d.




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