Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th July 1719
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
.