Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
23rd October 1754
467. (M.)
William
Woolner
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing one looking glass, val. 18 s.
the property of
Moses
Willoughby
proceedingsvictim
. Sept. 30
. ++
[The prosecutor is a loom maker
; the prisoner had work'd journeywork with him. He used after paid off to come to his house. The glass was missing on the 27th of Sept. The print of a man's foot was seen, and a sleeve-button was found on the floor under where the glass hung. The prosecutor next day went to the prisoner's lodgings. and in his window saw the fellow button lying. The prisoner said he had lost the fellow to it, and sold it to the prosecutor for a halfpenny; who compar'd them and found them fellows. A search warrant was taken out, and the glass mentioned was found, where the prisoner had pawned it on the 30th of Sept.
Guilty
.
[Transportation. See summary.]