Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
4th April 1722
William
Blewit
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1210339.
, of St. Andrew Holbourn
, was indicted for
privately stealing from the Person of
John
Higgs
proceedingsvictim
, a Silk Handkerchief, value 3 s.
on the 4th of March
last. It appear'd that the Prosecutor going out of St. Andrew's Church
, mist his Handkerchief, and having observ'd the prisoner to have been close by him, he apprehended him, who own'd the Fact, and return'd him his Handkerchief. In his Defence he said, he found the Handkerchief on the Church Steps.
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]