Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th December 1727
Edward
Wilcox
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Botolph without Aldgate
, was indicted for
stealing a Silver Watch, value 4 l.
on the 1st of this Instant December
, the Property of
Andrew
Moran
proceedingsvictim
. The Prosecutor depos'd, That on the Day aforesaid, his Glass-Case, in which was 9 Silver Watches, and one of Gold, was Stolen away; and the Hearing Mr. Stone in Barbakin had stopt a Watch which was offer'd to pawn, and appeared to be his, he, by that Means found out the Prisoner: But he making it appear by the Depositions of several Witnesses, that he won the said Watch at Cards of one
Thomas
Neaves
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, at the Black-Boy in Chick-Lane, he was
acquitted
.