Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st May 1817
311.
MICHAEL
HOLLINGSWORTH
proceedingsdefend
was indicted
for stealing, on the 25th of April
, one copper pan, value 10s.
, the goods of
Ann
Dubois
proceedingsvictim
.
ANN
DUBOIS
< no role >
. I am a broker
, and live at Chelsea
. On the 25th of April, between eleven and twelve o'clock, I lost the pan from inside my shop.
CHARLOTTE HOWIS. I live next door to Mrs. Dubois. I saw a man take the pan and put it in his basket. There were three of them together. I gave the alarm.
THOMAS HIGGINS. I am servant to Mrs. Dubois. I secured the prisoner, with the pan in his basket.
(Property produced and sworn to.)
GUILTY
. Aged 29.
Confined Three Months
, and
Whipped
.
First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.