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

6th September 1710

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Anthony Goddard proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 2275. and Richard Farthing proceedingsdefend , 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 .




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