Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd September 1719
Henry
Bourn
proceedingsdefend
of Feltham
in Middlesex. was indicted for
breaking open the House of
George
Hunt
proceedingsvictim
in the Day time, and stealing a pair of Shag Breeches value 20 s. and a pair of Shoes value 4 s.
on the 3d of August
last . The Prosecutor deposed that his Lock was broke, and a Hole broke in his Wall, and the Goods put up in a Stock by the Hole in order to be carried off. His Boy deposed that he coming Homes for Drink, it being Harvest time, found the House broke open, and saw the Prisoner in it who came out, ran after him, and threatned his Life; that he was sure the Prisoner was the same Person. Another deposed, that he hearing an Out-cry sought after the Prisoner, and found him in an Hedge; that when he took him he confest he broke the House, and said he did it for Want. The Prisoner in his Defence said, that he was going in the Country to his Friends, and sat down there to rest himself, and that they took him up for the Benefit of the 40 l. Reward. The Jury found him
Guilty
of Felony.
Transportation
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