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

6th December 1727

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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 < no role > , at the Black-Boy in Chick-Lane, he was acquitted .




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