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

27th August 1729

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Richard Whittingham proceedingsdefend , John Baldwin proceedingsdefend , and Margaret Winsford proceedingsdefend , were indicted for stealing 56 lb. of Sugar, of a Person unknown, out of the Warehouse of William Coatsworth < no role > , the 23d of July last. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Prisoners were found upon the Keys in the Night-time, and two Bags of Sugar were found nigh them, which had been taken out of some Hogsheads that lay there; but there not being sufficient Evidence that the Prisoners did actually steal the Sugar, they were all acquitted .




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