Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1712
Peter
Rosler, alias
Rogers
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Paul's Shadwell
, was indicted for
stealing 2 Ewes and a Weather
, the Goods of
William
Calcot
proceedingsvictim
, on the 14th of August
last. The Evidence was, that the Priner having stoln the Sheep out of the Grounds, and bringing them up in a Boat, a Custom-house Boat took them, and found the three Sheep with their Heads cut off. As soon as they brought them ashoar, two of the Thieves ran away, and the Prisoner was taken; and the Sheep being cry'd, were own'd by the Prosecutor. The Prisoner said in his Defence, that the Person who escap'd hir'd him to row a Boat down to Greenwich, and afterwards put the Sheep aboard, which they told him were their Masters: But no Evidence appearing either to that, or to his Reputation, he was found
guilty
of Felony.