Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th September 1774
564. (L.)
HENRY
FENLY
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was indicted for
stealing a silk handkerchief, value 2 s.
the property of a person unknown, July 20th
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Benjamin
Grey
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. On the 20th of July going along Upper Thames-street
, I looked over my shoulder and saw the prisoner pick a handkerchief out of a gentleman's pocket, and clap it under his coat; I laid hold of him and charged him with it; I took him into a shop and went to see after the gentleman, but could not find him.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
Guilty of stealing to the value of 10 d.
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