Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
28th February 1722
John
Chairs
proceedingsdefend
, and
James
Chairs
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. of St. Margaret Westminster
were indicted for
feloniously stealing a Trunk, value 5 s. a Sheet, 1 s. a Petticoat, 5 s. and 14 s. in Money
, the Goods and Money of
Mary
Charwel
proceedingsvictim
, on the 4th of February
last. It appeared that the Prosecutor was kept by the Parish, and was Grandmother
to the prisoners; who taking an opportunity when the poor Woman was a-bed, carried away her Trunk, and the other Goods in it, some of which were afterwards found upon 'em.
Guilty to the value of 10 d. each
.
[Transportation. See summary.]