Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
25th February 1719
James
Cringe
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Mary White-Chappel
, was indicted for
breaking open the House of
Henry
Mason
proceedingsvictim
, and taking thence a Flitch and half of Bacon and 150 Eggs, the Goods of the said Henry Mason
on the third of February
last. The Prosecutor deposed that he hearing a Noise about one a clock, rose, and found his House broke open, and that the Prisoner was taken a Hours after with the Goods. The Constable deposed, that Seeing a Light in a Shed, he went to it, and there found the Prisoner and two more with him cleaning the Bacon; they run up Stairs, and two of them jumpt out at the Window and got off, but the Prisoner was taken and confess'd where he stole it. He likewise own'd in Court that he stood by and saw the House broke open, but did not break it. The Jury brought him in
Guilty of Felony only
.
Transportation
.