Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
29th June 1692
EDward
Kallaway
proceedingsdefend
, a Boy
of the Parish of Little-All-hallows
, was Indicted and Tryed for
Stealing Eight pair of Mens Wosted Stockings, (on the 28th of May last past,) value 25 s.
the Goods of
Frances
Crompton
proceedingsvictim
, Widow
, who swore that the Stockings were put to be Colour'd at a Dye-house, where the Prisoner stole them, and the Goods were found in his Breeches; The Prisoner could say nothing, but that he found them at the Dye-house Door in Thames street, and that he belonged to the Blew Coat-Hospital
, he was not able to vindicate himself; So he was found
Guilty
of Felony.
[Transportation. See summary.]