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

2nd March 1709

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John Beaumont proceedingsdefend , of St. Dunstan's in the East , was Indicted for feloniously Stealing 16 l. of Sugar value 5 s. the Goods of Richard Tilden proceedingsvictim and Joseph Main proceedingsvictim , on the 1st of February last. It appear'd that in the dusk of the Evening, the Prosecutors Porter being at their Warehouse heard a noise over his Head, where were Hogsheads of Sugar, and stepping to the Door, took the Prisoner coming down Stairs with his Apron and Pockets fill'd with the Goods mention'd in the Indictment. The Prisoner saying nothing in his Defence, the Jury found him guilty to the value of 10 d .




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