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

15th January 1719

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proceedingsdefend and proceedingsdefend of the Parish of Hackney were indicted for breaking the House of James Lamb proceedingsvictim and stealing divers rich Furniture, Plate &c. to a very considerable value the 22d of December last. It appeared by the Evidence that the Prosecutor's House was broken, and the Goods Stollen, and that part of the Plate was carried by the Prisoner and sold for 13 l. to Mr. Areber, Goldsmith; who having notice given by the Prosecutor stopped them with another parcel of Plate the next day.- pleaded she had received the Plate to sell form one Esther Watson < no role > , and and knew nothing of its stollen, that she had sent and Endeavoured to apprehend this Watson, but she was absconded. Several Persons appeared who gave her a good Character, thereupon the Jury acquitted them.




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