Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th December 1725
Richard
Scurrier
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3118.
, of Cripplegate
, was indicted for
privately stealing a Firkin of Butter, value 24 s. in the Shop of
John
Hamlet
proceedingsvictim
. October 29
. It appear'd that the Prisoner came into the Prosecutor's Shop, and took the Goods, but being pursu'd, threw the Firkin down, and cut the Evidence cross the Wrist with a Knife. He had escap'd from his Keepers, as he was going on Board for Transportation, and afterwards broke out of Newgate with several others.
Guilty
.
Death
.