Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th August 1724
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
.