Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd September 1719
John
Green
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Brides
, was indicted for
privately stealing a Silk Handkerchief value 1 s.6 d. from the Person of
John
Russel
proceedingsvictim
, on the 14th of July
last. The Prosecutor deposed that he saw the Prisoner pick his Pocket of his Handkerchief on Long Hill
, and run away with it. The Prisoner in his Defence said, that he had been at his Sisters, and seeing a Crow'd on Long Hill, stopt to see what was the matter, and the Prosecutor followed him and charged him with the Fact, which he said he was innocent of. But the Prosecutor, was very politive that he was the Person. The Jury found him
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
Transportation
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