Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
20th April 1726
William
Griffin
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
Committing Sodomy with
Thomas
Newton
proceedingsvictim This name instance is in set 3012.
, May 10
. Thomas Newton thus depos'd. The Prisoner and
Thomas
Phillips
< no role >
, (who is since absconded,) were Lodgers for near 2 Years at Clap's House. I went up stairs, while the Prisoner was a Bed, and there he committed the Act with me.
Samuel
Stevens
< no role >
depos'd, That he had seen the Prisoner, and his Gang at Clap's House.
Guilty
.
Death
.