Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th September 1753
426. (L.)
Thomas
Rummings
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing one silk handkerchief, val. 10 d.
the property of
William
Waller
proceedingsvictim
, July 28
. *
William Waller. As I was coming down Ludgate-street
, July 28, between four and five in the afternoon I saw the boy
take my handkerchief from my pocket, I laid hold on him immediately, and secured him.
The prisoner had nothing to say in his defence.
Guilty
.
[Transportation. See summary.]