Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th February 1788
179.
JOHN
VANDENBERGH
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and
WILLIAM
KEEP
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were indicted,
the first for receiving, on the 15th of November
, two pair of silk breeches, a silk waistcoat, and a dimity bed-gown; and the other for receiving, on the 17th of November, two silk waistcoats and two cotton counterpanes, knowing them to have been stolen
; being a parcel of the goods which
John
Durham
< no role >
and
Edward
Crowther
< no role >
were convicted of stealing in December sessions.
There was no evidence to bring the charge home to the prisoners.
BOTH
NOT GUILTY
.
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.