Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th February 1755
Stephen
M'Donnald
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,
John
Berry
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,
James
Egan
, otherwise Gabagan
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, and
James
Salmon
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, were indicted for
being accessaries before a felony committed by
Peter
Kelly
< no role >
and
John
Ellis
< no role >
on the person of the defendant
James
Salmon
< no role >
, in the county of Kent, on the 23d of July, in maliciously and feloniously abetting, assisting, counselling, hiring, and commanding the said Ellis and Kelly to commit the said robbery, with intent to procure to themselves the rewards allowed by the statute, and some farther rewards offered by the inhabitants of the parish of Greenwich, &c
.
The jury found them
guilty
of all the facts charged in the indictment; but a point of law arising, it was made special, and left to be considered by the twelve judges.
This being a trial of so extraordinary a nature, we cannot do justice to the public, whom we would always oblige, if we curtail it; there fore it will be published at large in a few days.