Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

21st October 1772

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711. (M.) WILLIAM STEALE proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a black silk cloak, value 12 s. the property of Ann Alder proceedingsvictim This name instance is in a workspace. , Oct, 2 . ++

Ann Alder < no role > . I am a servant to a lady in Red-lion-square; going home at nine o'clock in the evening, on the 2d of October, in Little Queen street , opposite Parker's-lane, the prisoner came behind me, and snatched my cloak off my shoulders; he was a minute in taking it from me; then he ran down Parker's-lane; I followed him, crying stop thief! I saw him throw the cloak down, and then he walked; I came up to him, and accused him of having stolen it: I delivered him into the hands of the constable.

The constable deposed that he took the prisoner into custody; after which he knocked down one of the watchmen and run away, but they pursued him and retook him.

The prisoner, in his defence, said, he was innocent; that he was walking home when he was stopt; that he saw a person run by on the other side of the way.

He called three witnesses, who gave him a good character.

Guilty . T .




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