Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th September 1750
530.
James
Spencer
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing one handkerchief, val. 10 d.
the property of
Simpson
Levi
proceedingsvictim
.
July 17
.
The prisoner pick'd the prosecutor's pocket of the handkerchief coming through Ludgate
; he was detected in the fact; he flung down the handkerchief, and run a little way; but was taken and begg'd for mercy.
Guilty 10 d
.
[Transportation. See summary.]