Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th April 1727
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
.