Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
30th May 1723
James
Washford
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Giles Cripplegate
, was indicted for
privately stealing 28 Yards of Strip'd Silk Cotton, value 5 l. in the shop of
Thomas
Finch
proceedingsvictim
, the 16th of May
last. It appear'd by the Evidence the Prisoner stole the Goods out of the Prosecutor's Shop, no Body being therein. The Fact being plainly prov'd the Jury found him
Guilty to the Value of 4 s. 10 d.
Transportation
.