Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

21st May 1817

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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.




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