Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
11th October 1721
Edward
Hinds
proceedingsdefend
and
Francis
Coudil
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Mary at Islington
, were indicted for
feloniously stealing 2 Ducks value 3 s. 2 Geese value 4 s. and 1 Cock value 2 s.
the Goods of
Walter
Burton
proceedingsvictim
on the 8th of September last. The Prosecutor deposed, that he lost his Poultry out of his Root the Night aforesaid.
William
Risdel
< no role >
deposed, that the Prisoner and himself workt at Tile-making
at Islington, that the Night aforesaid the Prisoners brought down 2 Geese and 2 Ducks into the Kill-Pit, that he (this Evidence) asking them where they had them, they said they would go and show him; that they went with him to the Prosecutor's said they had them there; and he (this Evidence) took the Cockerel, and went back with them. The Jury found them both
Guilty to the value of 10 d. each
.
Transportation
.