Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th January 1783
92.
JOHN
MOORE
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
feloniously stealing on the 9th of December
last, one lump of sugar containing twenty-three pounds and an half, value 18 s. the goods of
Thomas
Adams
proceedingsvictim
, privily in his shop
.
THOMAS
ADAMS
< no role >
sworn.
I know the prisoner; I live in Lamb-street, Spitalfields
, I keep a grocer's shop:
about the 9th of December the prisoner came into my shop and took out a lump of sugar, I did not see him, another witness saw him go out with it; he came into the shop slyly, and went out again, he asked for nothing.
Court. What is the value of the sugar? - 18 s.
Who took him? - A person stopped him that is not here; he dropped the sugar down in the street, and the witness that saw him go out with it, picked it up.
THOMAS
JACKS
< no role >
sworn.
I was going into Mr. Adams's shop, and the prisoner was standing at my left hand, and he whipped up the sugar and ran away with it.
Court. Did he see that your eyes were upon him? - Yes, I believe he did, I asked him what he had there; he dropped the sugar and run, and cried out, Stop thief! I did not take him; I am sure of the boy
, I never saw him before; I saw him directly after.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I heard an out cry, and a boy run past me, and a gentleman came and laid hold of me and said I was the boy. I have no witnesses.
Court. What age are you? - Going on thirteen.
GUILTY, Of stealing but not privately
.
To be fined 1 s.
and
confined six months in the house of Correction
.
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.