Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
17th October 1781
674.
SAMUEL
SLAUGHTER
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing two copper saucepans, value 3 s. and a copper drinking-pot, value 12 d.
the property of
Ann
Langthorne
proceedingsvictim
, October the 8th
.
ANN
LANGTHORNE
< no role >
sworn.
The prisoner came into my house for a pint of beer. He was stopped in the kitchen, and the things mentioned in the indictment were found upon him.
GUILTY
.
Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.
[Fine. See summary.]