Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
20th September 1797
484.
LYON
LEVY
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was indicted for
feloniously receiving, on the 24th of April
, twenty pair of silk and cotton stockings, value 5l. thirty-two pair of cotton stockings, value 4l. 13s. five pair of cotton and worsted stockings, value 15s. a pair of worsted stockings, value 1s. and three silk and cotton purses, value 1s. 6d. the property of
William
Higginbotham
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, of which William Bergen and Joseph Chase have been convicted, he knowing them to have been stolen
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The only material witness not having had notice to attend, the Jury found the prisoner.
NOT GUILTY
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice ASHURST.