Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
22nd May 1776
417.
JOHN
WINGELL
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was indicted for
stealing two looking-glasses in gilt frames, value twenty shillings, two pieces of ticking, value 5 l. a piece of long lawn, value twenty shillings, and 120 pair of leather gloves, value 5 l.
the property of
Luke
Hogard
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, April 30th
.
It appeared upon the evidence, that the goods mentioned in the indictment were carried by some one to the prisoner's house upon an alarm of fire, and that one of the glasses was found in the prisoner's shop, which he readily delivered on its being claimed.
NOT GUILTY
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASTON.