Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th August 1729
Richard
Whittingham
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,
John
Baldwin
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, and
Margaret
Winsford
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, 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
.