Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th January 1787
213.
JOHN
CHRISTIAN
proceedingsdefend
and
CHARLES
O'HARA
proceedingsdefend
were indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 24th of December
last, nine quarts of whale oil, value 4 s.
the property of
William
Cowley
proceedingsvictim
.
The prisoner Christian was seen taking the oil in a tin bottle, in a bag. The oil deposed to, being remarkably rank.
JOHN
CHRISTIAN
< no role >
,
GUILTY
.
Transported for seven years
.
CHARLES
O'HARA
< no role >
,
NOT GUILTY
.
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.