Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
19th February 1777
164, 165, 166.
MARTHA
VERNON
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,
THOMAS
PONGUE
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, and
SAMUEL
PONGUE
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were indicted, the first for
stealing, 14 dozen of watch glasses, value 5 s.
the property of
George
Humphrys
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; the other two for
receiving the above goods, well-knowing them to have been stolen
, against the statute, February 1st
.
There was no evidence to affect the principal, therefore of course they were all three found
NOT GUILTY
.
Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN.