Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st February 1787
275.
PETER HENRY
GILES
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was indicted for
burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of
Matthew
Edmondson
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, about the hour of eight in the night, on the 10th day of January
last, and burglariously stealing therein, one copper kettle, value 15 s. a mahogany tea-tray, value 15 s. and two pictures, with gilt frames, value 15 s. his property
.
There being no evidence but that of an accomplice, he was
ACQUITTED
.
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GOULD.