Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
1st July 1687
Francis
Butler
proceedingsdefend
was Tryed for
Stealing a Silver Tankard value 5 l. 10 s.
from
Robert
Bono
proceedingsvictim
of St. Giles Cripplegate
on the 9th of October
last, the Evidence against him was Bone and others, who deposed that the Prisoner came into his House with an other person, and having the Tankard delivered to him with drink; found an opportunity to carry it away, but he pleading Innocence, and the Tankard no where found, the Jury in consideration that the Prosecutor might be mistaken in the Prisoner,
Acquitted
him.