Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

7th July 1784

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668. MICHAEL FITZPATRICK proceedingsdefend 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.




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