Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th September 1710
Anthony
Goddard
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and
Richard
Farthing
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, of St. Martins in the Fields
, were both indicted for
Feloniously stealing 13 pair of Worsted Stockings, value 40 s.
the Goods of
John
Bilthon
proceedingsvictim
, on the 1st of August
last. It appeared that the Prisoners were observed to walk to and fro the Prosecutor's Shop, and Goddard was seen to put his Hand over the Shop Window and take the Goods, that going off, was himself taken with them upon him. The Jury found him
guilty to the value of 10 d.
But the Evidence not being strong enough against the other, he was
acquitted
.