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

19th April 1721

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Samuel Clarke proceedingsdefend , of St. John at Wapping , was indicted for feloniously stealing a Cloth Coat value 10 s. and a Drugget Wastcoat value 7 s. the Goods of Gabriel Piercy proceedingsvictim , on the 8th of this Instant April . It appeared that the Prisoner took the Goods out of the Prosecutor's Cabbin, and going to sell them, was stopt, and the Goods cry'd, and own'd by the Prosecutor. The Prisoner in Excuse pleaded, that he was so Drunk he knew not what he did or said. The Jury found him Guilty . Transportation .




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