Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
2nd June 1731
Peter
Hart
proceedingsdefend
and
William
Carlisle
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, of St. Giles's Cripplegate
, were indicted for
burglariously breaking the House of
Thomas
Simonds
proceedingsvictim
, and feloniously stealing a Stuff-Gown, value 4 s. and a Cock, value 2 s.
the 14th of June
last.
The Prosecutor depos'd, That his House was broken, and the Goods stolen.
William
Edwards
< no role >
depos'd, That the Prisoners and himself did the Fact; but there not being sufficient Evidence to fix the Fact upon the Prisoners, the Jury
acquitted
them.