Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
13th October 1708
Thomas
Sollors
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Sepulchres
, was Indicted for
breaking open the Dwelling-House of
Richard
Johnson
proceedingsvictim
in the Night time, and taking from thence 4 Silver Spoons, a Silver Cup, a Velvet Scarf, a Silk Petticoat, with other things, the Goods of the said Richard Johnson, on the 27th of September
last
. The Evidence depos'd, that on Monday early in the Morning, the Prosecutor's House was broken open, and the Goods mentioned taken away. That the Prisoner was observ'd about 7 in the Morning to walk in some Confusion in Goodman's Fields, with 2 Baskets of Goods one on each Arm: That he was apprehended, and upon Suspition, examined before a Justice; that giving no Account how he came by the Goods, was committed to New Prison. That the Prosecutor having Intelligence of the Goods, prov'd that they were the Goods he lost at the time his House was broken open. The Prisoner offering nothing in his Defence, the Jury found him
Guilty
of the Indictment.
[Death. See summary.]