Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st February 1770
157, 158. (M. 1st)
James
Smith
proceedingsdefend
and
Thomas
Abel
proceedingsdefend
were indicted for
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
John
Parnell
proceedingsvictim
on the 22d of Jan
. about the hour of three at night, and stealing five perukes, value 4 l. six razors, value 6 s. and two pair of scissars, value 2 s.
the property of the said John. *
The prosecutor is a barber
and lives in Tatenham's court
; he deposed his house was broke between the 3d and 4th of January, and the goods mentioned taken away.
George
Memory
< no role >
, who said he was eighteen years of age, deposed he, together with the two prisoners, in company with one
John
< no role >
M'Duff, not taken, committed the fact; but his account not being supported by any evidence of credit the prisoners were both
acquitted
.
(M. 1st) They were a second time indicted for
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
James
Berridge
proceedingsvictim
, on the 22d of January
, about four in the night, and stealing two black silk cloaks, value 10 s. a black silk hat, three linen aprons and a linen sheet, the property of the said James
. *
The prosecutor deposed to his house being broke and the things taken away; but having no evidence of character to corroborate the evidence of Memory, Memory was not examined.
Both
acquitted
.
See Memory, the evidence tried for a burglary, No. 100 in Mr. Alderman Turner's Mayoralty.