Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th July 1720
William
Williams
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Botolph without Aldersgate
, was indicted for
privately and feloniously stealing 3 dozen and 10 Horn Handle Knives and Forks value 40 s. out of the Warehouse of
John
Tranter
proceedingsvictim
, on the 13th of June
last. It appeared that the Prisoner and another Boy broke a Board over the Prosecutor's Warehouse-door in the Castle and Falcon-Inn
, and got in and took the Goods; but were stopt with them by a Porter in Thames-Street about 11 at Night, whom they told they had the Goods first of one Person, then or another; that the other Boy got away. The Goods taken on them were produc'd in Court and own'd by the Prosecutor, and the Prisoner's Hat was found in his Warehouse. The Jury considering the matter, found him
Guilty to the value of 4 s. 10 d
.
Transportation
.