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

22nd February 1688

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THomas Smith proceedingsdefend , was Indicted for Breaking open the House of Mary Callamy proceedingsvictim Widow , in St. Mary Alderman-bury , about the Hours of Eight and Nine in the Night, on the 11th. of this Instant February , and taking thence one Cloath Coat fac'd with Velvet, value 40 s. being the goods of Joshua Geering proceedingsvictim . The Evidence against the Prisoner, was the Prosecutor, who said he came in at the Window and the Casement was open, and the Coat was brought down one pair of the Stairs and laid in the Parlour, and that they let him out of the Door, but the goods were not found upon him; and he pleaded, he was Pursued and run into the House. Upon the whole, he was brought in not Guilty .




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