Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th May 1722
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.