Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th October 1718
proceedingsdefend
-, of St Giles in the Fields
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing divers pieces of Plate, value 20 l. and 6 Guineas, the property of
Eleanor
Holebrook
proceedingsvictim
, in the Dwelling-House of
Joel
Lobb
< no role >
, the 1st of October
last. The Prosecutor deposed, that while she was abroad, her Chamber was broken open, and the Goods Stollen; and that being informed that a Person was seen to come down Stairs, whose Person being described, the description answered to the Prisoner.
Thomas
Crossfield
< no role >
and
Henry
Lobb
< no role >
deposed, that they saw a Man come down the Stairs with some things within the Bosom of his Coat, and did verily believe it to be the Prisoner; Lobb having known him before, when he used formerly to come to the Prosecutor. The Prisoner produced several Evidences, who gave an account from time to time where he was, so that it did not appear very probable that he committed the Fact; upon hearing the whole matter, the Jury
acquitted
him.