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

30th May 1723

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Thomas Humphrys proceedingsdefend , of St. Margaret Westminster , was indicted for feloniously stealing 60 Peach, Nectarine; and Plum Trees, value 3 l. the Goods of Joseph Carpenter proceedingsvictim , the 9th of April last. He was likewise indicted a second Time for stealing a Gun, a watering pot, and Orange Trees, value 13 s. the Goods of Henry Wise proceedingsvictim , Esq ; the 1st of April last. As to the first Indictment, the Proof being not sufficient to convict the Prisoner, the Jury acquitted him. As to the second Indictment, the Prisoner had confess'd he had stole a Watering-pot out of Brumpton Park , and sold it to one Burchet, or Burchel, in Rosemary Lane, who told him he always kept Things a Year before he sold them. The Ju-Jury found him Guilty to the Value of 1 s. 6 d.

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