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

4th December 1717

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William Blewett proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 12101210. , of St. Michael Cornhill was indicted for feloniously stealing 3 Child's holland Shifts value 4 s. and a Frock 1 s.6 d. from the Person of Richard Hyatt proceedingsvictim , the 26th of October last. The Prosecutor deposed that going along in Cornhill with the things in his Pocket the Prisoner gave him a Jostle and presently he missed the Things, that he immediately seised the Prisoner running away with the Goods, the Prisoner pleaded that there were 3 Boys who threw down the things and he took them up, not knowing them to be stole, but notwithstanding the Jury found him Guilty to the value of 10 d.

[Whipping. See summary.]




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