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

12th April 1727

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Anne Greenwood proceedingsdefend and Robert Greenwood < no role > (not yet taken) and William Gardiner proceedingsdefend , of St. Dunstan's Stepney , were indicted for stealing 11 Hogs, value 20 l. the Property of John Dollinson proceedingsvictim , who depos'd. That having Information where they were, he went and search'd0, and in the House of Robert Greenwood < no role > found 3 of his own Hogs alive, pent up in a Closet, others he found cut in Pieces, which he could not swear to be his own.

Anne Greenwood < no role > said in her Defence, That her Husband, Robert Greenwood < no role > brought 'em home, and told her he had bought them, and that she knew nothing to the contrary, till she was apprehended by the Prosecutor. William Gardiner < no role > was only employ'd as a Journeyman to kill them and cut them up, which being considered by the Jury they were both acquitted .




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