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

15th January 1719

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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 < no role > This name instance is in set 3033. 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. Transportation .




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