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

8th July 1719

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Patrick Evans proceedingsdefend , of St. Anns Aldersgate , was indicted for feloniously stealing a Silk Handkerchief value 3 s. from the Person of William Hunt proceedingsvictim , on the 21st of June last. The Prosecutor deposed that going down St. Martins there was a Crowd of Quakers, which as he past he felt something about his Pocket, whereup on he felt and mist his Handkerchief, and saw the Prisoner putting it into his Pocket. The Prisoner in his Defence said he found it on the Ground: But the Jury not believing him, found him Guilty to the value of 10 d. Transportation .




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