Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1719
John
Welden
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 523.
was indicted for
breaking the House of Mr.
John
Washer
proceedingsvictim
with an Intent to steal his Goods
the 9th of this Instant January
. It appeared by the Evidence that the Prisoner, a being a Barber
at Lincoln-Inn did use to shave the Prosecutor, and knowing the Prosecutor, to have been gone out of Town, did get over a high Wall and was breaking in at the Window, but being heard by a Gentleman in some contigous Chambers she fired a Pistol out at the window which would ed the Prisoner in the Leg, by which wound he being rendered uncapable to make his escape was apprehended: But there not being sufficient, Proof that he had made any Entry, the Jury
acquitted
him.