Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th January 1715
John
Pierce
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, of the Parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate
, was indicted for
stealing 15 Yards of Livsey-Wolsey, value 15 s. and 4 Yards of Linen
, the Goods of
Kath.
Acon
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, on the 23d of December
last. It appear'd by the Evidence Goods were lying upon the Prosecutor's Shop-Window and the Prisoner was seen to take them away, and being thereupon pursu'd, they were upon him. He had no Defence to make, nor any to his Reputation, and was found
Guilty to the Value of 4 s. 10 d.
[Whipping. See summary.]