Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

10th May 1722

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Robert Shewell , alias Sheffield proceedingsdefend of St. Margaret Westminster , was indicted for feloniously stealing a Steel Screw Plate, and five Taps belonging to the same, value 2 s. 6 d. the Goods of Joseph Rea proceedingsvictim , on the 2d of April last. It appear'd that the prisoner would have bought the Screw Plate of the Prosecutor, but not agreeing, they parted, and presently after the Screw Plate was last. The Prosecutor found one, which he believ'd to be the same, at a House where the prisoner works. The prisoner in his Defence, said, he made the Plate himself. Several Persons giving him a good Character, the Jury acquitted him.




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