Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1719
Thomas
Buckley
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and
William
Connor
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, of St. Clement Danes
, were indicted for
privately stealing a Gold Ring value 18 s in the Shop
of
Richard
Gundy
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, the 2nd of this instant January
. They Prosecutors deposed the Prisoners came to his Shop. under presence to buy a Ring and that while he was weighing a Ring Conney took a Ring out of the Box and laid down a brass Ring in the place of it, and finding scale with the priced of the Ring he weigh'd went out of the Shop but he immediately perceiving the Cheat stept after them and brought them back where Conner fell a Grughing and the Ring fell out of his Mouth on the Ground; the fact being plain against Connor the Jury found him
guilty to the value of 4 s.10 d.
Transportation
. But it not being prov'd that Buckley was privy to the fact he was
acquitted
.