Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th July 1784
668.
MICHAEL
FITZPATRICK
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was indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 16th day of June
, one plane, value 6 d. one other plane, value 6 d. one hammer, value 6 d. and one pair of pincers, value 6 d.
the property of
Stephen
Pound
proceedingsvictim
.
STEPHEN
POUND
< no role >
sworn.
I live in Warner-street, Cold-bath-fields, I am a carpenter
, I was at work in a new house, and I lost the things mentioned in the indictment on the 16th of June, in the morning; at five o'clock the next morning the constable brought them to me. (The things produced and deposed to.) I never saw the prisoner before.
JOSEPH
PERRY
< no role >
sworn.
I am a watchman in Fleet-lane, I heard a noise, and I ran, and just at the end of my beat the prisoner stood at a door, it wanted a quarter of twelve; he said he lodged there, and was a carpenter; I took him to the watch-house with the tools, and I saw them all taken from him there, these are the same tools.
RICHARD
CORKER
< no role >
sworn.
I am an officer of the night, I took charge of the prisoner.
GUILTY
.
Whipped
, and
imprisoned one month in Newgate
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. ROSE.