Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1719
Charles
Hudson
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Andrews Holbourn
, was indicted for
stealing 2 scarlet Coach Seats
, the Property of
Gilbert
Sheldon
proceedingsvictim
, Esq
; the 16th of this Instant January
; it appeared by the Evidence, as the Coach was going slowly into little Ormond-yard
, that the Prisoner and another were seen about the Coach, one on the one side and the other on the other, that the other; Person threw out the Seats to the Prisoners who told them up and was running away, but being feen was pursued and taken the Prisoner deny'd the fact; and pleaded he was a Ticket Porter , and not only shew'd his Ticket in Court but brought one who also confirmed it, and that, he ply'd in Fish-street, but
Jonathan
Wild
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said he was the greatest stealing of Coach Seats in England and had been in quest of him, a full Month on that account the fact being plainly prov'd the Jury found him
guilty
of Indictment.
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