Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1719
John
Moody
proceedingsdefend
of Alhallows Lombard-street
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing a Cloth Coat value 20 s. Wastcoat value 10 s. a pair of Breeches value 10 s. in Money, and a Pocket-Book value 3 d. the property of
Lawrence
Gibbons
proceedingsvictim
, in the Dwelling House
of, the 11th of December
. The Prosecutor deposed that he going to Lodge at the Cross Keys Inn
in street, being in Bed and asleep; about two in the Morning was wakened by, a noise of his Chamber Door on the inside, and feeling his Clothes found they were taken from off the Bed, whereupon he calling to the Servants, and them, they found a Pain of Glass had been taken out of a Window in his Room, and suspecting the Prisoner, who came to lodge there the Night before, they searched his Room and found the Clothes upon some Leads put out at back Window in the Prisoner's Room, and his Pocket-Book hid behind the Wastcoat, and a remarkable piece of old Silver belonging to him, in the Prisoner's Pocket; this was confirmed by the Servants belonging to the House, The Prisoner deny'd the Fact, but it being plainly prov'd upon him. The Jury found him
Guilty
.
Death
.