Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th October 1692
EDward
Jones
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was Tryed for
Breaking Mr.
Robert
Fowler
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's House, in the Parish of St. Peter's Cornhil
, on the 7th Instant, about Eleven of the Clock in the Evening
; the Prisoner and another came to the Shop and Gagg'd Mr. Fowler's Man, and would have taken away his Goods, but he crying out Murder, they run away; but before they went, they saluted Mr. Fowler's Man with several Blows over the Head, and much abused him, and the Prisoner was seen lurking about the Door all the Evening before the Robbery was done; the Prisoner denied the Fact, and the Witness might be mistaken, being dark: So he was
Acquitted
.