Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th May 1719
Simon
Aylmore
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Brides
, was indicted for
privately stealing a Canister of Bohee Tea, Value 1 l.1 s. out of the Shop of
Humphrey
Thare
proceedingsvictim
, the 21st of April
last. John Row, the Prosecutor's servant deposed, that the Tea was put up for a Gentleman and laid in the Window, and that he saw the Prisoner take it, whereupon he cry'd out stop Thief, and followed and took him within.a few Yards of the Shop. The Person who stop'd him deposed that he saw him take it and throw it away. The Prisoner deny'd the Fact, and said that having been exercising at Westminster, his Officer gave him Money to drink, and that he was drunk; but he called none to prove it, nor any to his Reputation The Jury found him
Guilty
.
Death
.