Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
30th October 1811
891.
THOMAS
HUGHES
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 34th of September
, a bridle, value 8 s.
the property of
John
Boswell
proceedingsvictim
.
JOHN BOSWELL. I am a boatman
. I live at Birmingham. I lost my bridle out of Mr. Crab's stable, at Paddington
, from information I went to the Red Lion, at Kilburn. I found the bridle on the horses head, of the man that brought it, his name is John Thorn.
JOHN THORN. I am a highler. The prisoner said to me, countryman, I will sell you a saddle and bridle, we went up to the Star and Garter, he called out there is my brother gone out of the house they said yes, he then said the saddle is gone. I will sell you the bridle for three shillings. I said I will give you half a crown if you will take it to a sadler's, so he took it to a sadler's, there I bought it. I would not buy it without a witness. I am sure he is the man. This is the bridle.
- BOSWELL. That is my bridle, it is marked
I. B. < no role >
inside the winkers.
Prisoner's Defence. I never saw any thing of it.
GUILTY
, aged 30.
Confined one Year in the House of Correction
, and
whipped in jail
.
Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.