Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
23rd October 1771
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
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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
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