Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
11th October 1721
Thomas
Mitchel
proceedingsdefend
of St. John at Wapping
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing 5 Leather Stools value 10 s.
the Goods of
Daniel
Egg
proceedingsvictim
, on the 28th of September
last. He was a second time indicted for
feloniously stealing, 1 Bed value 7 s. and 1 Quilt value 3 s.
the Goods of
James
Rammidge
proceedingsvictim
on the 23d of September
last. Daniel Egg deposed, that he had charge of the Ship called The Royal Exchange
, that he found the Ship broke open and the Goods gone, which he found at the Prisoner's House.
James
Rammidge
< no role >
deposed, that his Bed and Quilt was taken out of the Ship called The Three Johns, and that he found them at the Prisoner's: The finding the Goods at the Prisoner's House was confirmed by another Evidence. The Prisoner in his Defence said, that his Shipmate brought the Goods to him desiring him to keep them for him till he return'd from Sea, and he did not know but that he came honestly by them. The Jury considering the matter found him
Guilty to the value of 10 d. each Indictment
,
Transportation
.