Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th September 1789
736.
GEORGE
CLARKE
alias
BLACKMAN
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(a black) was indicted for
burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
Thomas
Alexander
proceedingsvictim
, about the hour of two in the night, on the 18th of August
last, and burglariously stealing therein, one oil skin umbrella, value 5 s. the property of
Joseph
Elliot
proceedingsvictim
.
A second Count, for breaking the same house with a felonious intent to steal the said goods.
NOT GUILTY
.
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.