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

14th April 1686

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William Hall proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Antholins , was Indicted March the 22th . for stealing 26 Ells of Worsted Paragon, value 35 s. of the Goods of one Summers proceedingsvictim . It appeared, that the Prisoner coming into the Shop where the Goods lay, took them from the Compter , and was marching off, but some in the Shop soon perceiving the Goods were gone and suspecting the Prisoner; as they pursued him, he was seen to drop the Goods, and making but a mean defence, he was brought in Guilty of the Felony.

[Branding. See summary.]




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