Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1719
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and
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of the Parish of Hackney
were indicted for
breaking the House of
James
Lamb
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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
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, 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.