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

23rd October 1771

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742. (L.) William Hughes proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3648. was indicted for stealing a silk handkerchief, value 10 d. the property of George Lolley proceedingsvictim , September the 23d . ||

George Lolley < no role > . I was standing at the print shop St. Paul's church yard ; I felt my handkerchief going out of my pocket; I turned round and saw the prisoner near me, tucking something into his breeches, and I took my handkerchief out of his breeches.

Prisoner's Defence.

I took the handkerchief off the ground.

Guilty . T .




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