Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th April 1693
Thomas
Allen
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,
Robert
Beames
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, and
Mary
Hurley
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, were all three Indicted for
breaking
Edward
Stent
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's House of Stepney
on the 24th of February
last, about the Hour of Seven in the Evening, and Linnens and Woollen, and divers other Houshold Goods were taken away
. The Witness could not swear the Door was lockt when they came, neither that the House was broke open, but several of the Goods were found upon Beames and Allen, and five Picklock Keys were taken out of Beames's Pocket, and a Betty, where he was found in Bed betwixt two Women, the Prisoner Hurley being one of them; there was no Evidence to charge her home, so she was
Acquitted
, but the other two were found
guilty of Felony
.
[Allen: Military/Naval duty. See summary.]