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

14th May 1719

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John Low proceedingsdefend , of St. Mary-le-Bow , was indicted for stealing a Silk Handkerchief, value 3 s.6 d. from the Person of Joseph Oakley proceedingsvictim , on the 9th of this Instant May . The Prosecutor deposed that as he was coming from the Custom-house he saw the Prisoner take his Hand-kerchief out of his Pocket in Cheapside ; that he followed him to the Crown Ale-house in Red-Cross street, then got a Constable and took him. The Prisoner denied the Fact, but the Prosecutor was positive he saw him take it; and he calling none to his Reputation, the Jury found him Guilty to the Value of 10 d. Transportation .




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