Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th May 1719
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
.