Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
11th January 1786
124. The said
LEONARD
GOODRIDGE
proceedingsdefend
was again indicted for
that he, on the 10th day of February
last, at the parish of St. Bennet, Paul's wharf
, in the city of London, falsely did utter and publish as true a certain false and forged paper writing, with a seal thereto affixed, purporting to be the will of one
Thomas
Sawtell
< no role >
, deceased, and to be executed in his life time as and for his last will and testament, and to be signed with his mark, with intention to defraud one
Daniel
Slack
< no role >
, well knowing the said false, forged, and counterfeited will, to be false, forged, and counterfeited
.
A second count, with intention to defraud one
Edith
Spence
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, wife
of
George
Spence
< no role >
, Esq. and
Mary
Allen
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.
There being no evidence given on this indictment, he was
ACQUITTED
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.