Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st May 1724
Robert
Draper
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Dunstan's in the East
, was indicted for
breaking the House of
Sarah
Townley
proceedingsvictim
, and stealing the Money of
Charles
Townley
proceedingsvictim
, the 12th of April
last.
Ebenezer
Pendril
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depos'd, That the Prisoner having been Journeyman to a Barber
, to whom he himself was Apprentice, (whose House adjoined to the Prosecutor's) used to come to him, and had enticed him to assist him in robbing the Prosecutor, and that he did let him into his Master's Cellar, where they pull'd down Part of a Brick-Wall, and the Prisoner got into the Counting-house of the Prosecutor, and got some Money, what he could not tell, but he gave him some of it.
The Fact being plainly prov'd as to the Felony, the Jury found him guilty; but the Burglary not being so plain, they acquitted him of that
.
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