Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1712
John
Colebach, alias
Coleblack
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Botolph Aldersgate
, was indicted for
stealing a Silver Roan Mare
, the Goods of
John
Jowers
proceedingsvictim
, on the 19th of August
last. The Prosecutor said he lost the Mare out of his Grounds at Cotfield in Suffolk
; and putting her into the News, and the Prisoner bringing her to the Castle and Faulcon in Aldersgate-street, was suspected, and stopt; and the Prosecutor being sent to, came to Town and own'd her; which was strengthen'd by another, who swore her to be his. The Prisoner pretended he bought her of a Yorkshire Butcher, and nam'd a Woman that would justifie he paid for her; but no such thing appearing, nor any to his Reputation, he was found
guilty
.