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

17th September 1817

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1109. JAMES THOMPSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 6th of June , 7 lbs. of cheese, value 5s. , the goods of John Wright proceedingsvictim .

ISABELLA WRIGHT. I am the wife of John Wright < no role > , who keeps a chandler's shop at St. Pancras . On the 6th of June, while I was in the parlour, behind the shop, I saw the prisoner come in, take the cheese, and run out - He gave it to a boy who waited outside; I ran out and collared him. He pleaded distress.

GUILTY . Aged 16.

Confined Six Months .

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Holroyd.




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