Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd March 1720
William
Robinson
proceedingsdefend
of St. John at Wapping
was indicted for
breaking open the House of
James
Bateman
proceedingsvictim
on the 22d of January
last in the Night time, and taking thence 8 dozen of Silk Handkerchiefs and 4 dozen of Gloves, the Goods of
John
Growt
proceedingsvictim
. The Prosecutor deposed the House was broke and the Goods taken away about 9 the Night aforesaid. Mrs. Growt deposed, that her Husband shut up the Shop, and a little after she went into the Kitchen and lockt the Shop Door; the Street Door was open; that she went to her next Neighbours, and when she came back she found the Door she had lockt, wide open, and some Papers of new Gloves on the Ground.
Jonathan
Wild
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deposed, that he having Intelligence that the Prisoner carried a parcel of Goods to Mr. Rowland's, he went immediately and had Admittance and found the Prisoner a sleep on the Ground, with a Key in his Pocket which would open the Prosecutor's Door, and had the Goods produc'd before he waked him. Mr. Rowland confirm'd the same, and farther deposed, that the Prisoner brought them in and gave them to him to put to a Coat and Breeches he had brought in before. It did not appear to be a Burglary, so the Jury acquitted him of that, and found him
Guilty of Felony only
.
Transportation
.