Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th September 1785
803.
JOHN
DIXON
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 12th day of July
last, one silk handkerchief, value 1 s.
the property of
James
Thomberg
proceedingsvictim
.
The Prosecutor caught the prisoner in Grace-church-street
, with the handkerchief in his hand.
GUILTY, 10 d.
Transported for seven years
.
Tried by the first London Jury before Mr.
Baron
HOTHAM
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