Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
25th June 1752
332. (L.)
Joseph
Barnet
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing one wooden cask, val. 4 d. 50 pounds weight of rappee snuff, val. 7 l.
the goods of
Francis
Devall
proceedingsvictim
, April 16
+
As
Joseph
Smith
< no role >
, a carman, was going with his cart from the custom house to the prosecutor's with the snuff and other goods, he rested his cart by the way to carry a parcel to another gentleman's house. When he returned he missed the cask of snuff The prisoner, and another person who made his escape, were detected in selling it in Shoemaker Row. (The cask produced in court and deposed to.)
Guilty 39 s
.
[Transportation. See summary.]