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

12th August 1724

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John Claxton proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate , was indicted for feloniously stealing a Shift, the Goods of John Clement proceedingsvictim , the 18th of July last. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Shift was hung out in a Yard to dry, and the Prisoner came and took it off from the Line, and upon an outcry, he threw down the Shift and ran away, and was stopp'd. The Jury found him guilty of the Indictment. Transportation .




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