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

14th September 1785

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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 < no role > .




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