Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th October 1715
Anthony
Goddard
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, of the Parish of St. Margaret New-Fish-Street
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing a Hamper containing 6 Gallons of Red Wine, 6 Quarts of Canary, and 6 Quarts of White Wine, value 3 l.
on the 29th of September
last, the Goods of
John
Guy
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. A Beadle swore, he saw the Prisoner by the Hamper with Straws in his Wigg; and secur'd him. A Boy swore, he saw him rest the Hamper upon a Stall; and Mr. Guy swore to the Wine. The Prisoner had nothing in his Defence; but that he never had the Hamper. The jury found him
Guilty
.
[Death. See summary.]