Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
19th February 1777
162, 163.
WILLIAM
KELLY
proceedingsdefend
and
WILLIAM
ANDREW
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were indicted, the first for
stealing seven case knives, value 18 d. seven forks, value 1 s. a pint china bason, value 4 d. a quart stone mug, value 2 d. two pint stone mugs, value 2 d. two stone tea pots, value 2 d. and a linen napkin, value 3 d. the property of
Thomas
Griffith
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; a cut glass quart decanter, value 1 s. two glass beakers, value 6 d. three wine glasses, value 3 d. a jelly glass, value 2 d. and a wash-hand glass, value 1 d.
the property of
Thomas
Hitchcock
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,
Samuel
Fulham
proceedingsvictim
, and
Roger
Gill
proceedingsvictim
; the other for
receiving parcel of the above goods, well-knowing them to have been stolen
, against the statute, February 11th
.
The charge was not sufficiently made out by evidence against the prisoner.
BOTH
NOT GUILTY
.
Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GOULD.