Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
25th April 1750
306.
William
Rollett
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing a man's hat, val. 5 s. one horsewhip, val. 5 s.
the goods of
Joseph
North
proceedingsvictim
, March 15
.
The prisoner took an opportunity to go into the Prosecutor's house; the hat and horsewhip were hanging on two pins near each other; he was observed by a neighbour, who took him in the entry, as he was coming out, where he had dropt the whip, but the hat he took from under his arm, and throwed it in the street.
Guilty 10 d
.
[Transportation. See summary.]