Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

10th January 1787

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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.




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