Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
2nd March 1709
John
Middleditch
proceedingsdefend
, of London Labourer
, was Indicted for
privately Stealing a Cambrick Handkerchief value 12 d. from the Person of
Thomas
Hill
proceedingsvictim
, on the 17th of February
last. But the Evidence not reaching the Prisoner, and he producing divers substantial Witnesses, who gave him a very good Character, the Jury
acquitted
him.