Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th December 1743
25.
Thomas
Grocock
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing two Bars of Iron, two Steel Punches, two Chissels , and three Quarters of a Pound of Steel, value 1 s. 4 d.
the Goods of
Thomas
Pease
proceedingsvictim
, Oct. 25
.
The Prisoner was Servant
to Mr. Pease a Blacksmith
; he had left these Things at a Neighbour's, who informed the Prosecutor of it; he challenged the Prisoner with it, and he confessed it.
Guilty 10 d.
The Jury recommended him to the Court for corporal Punishment.
[Whipping. See summary.]