Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st May 1817
312.
THOMAS
HEWITT
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing, on the 27th of April
, one wheelbarrow, value 6s.
, the goods of
Thomas
Godfrey
proceedingsvictim
.
MARY
TEMPLE
< no role >
. On the 27th of April, I was going by the prosecutor's door at Poplar
, and saw the prisoner take the barrow and put it on his shoulder. I am sure he is the man.
JOHN WRIGHT. I saw the prisoner with the barrow on his shoulder-the wheel was off.
ROBERT
SHERMAN
< no role >
. I took the prisoner into custody.
(Property produced and sworn to).
GUILTY
. Aged 27.
Confined Three Months
, and
Whipped
.
First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.