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

6th May 1818

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826. JOHN READY proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 22d of April , one hat, value 10s. , the goods of John Lord Rolle proceedingsvictim .

WILLIAM COOMBS. I am servant to Lord Rolle. On the 22d of April, in the morning, I lost my hat off the nail in the passage below stairs.

JOHN WALES < no role > . I am a constable. On the 22d of April I was in Grosvenor-square, and saw the prisoner standing in Upper Grosvenor-street - I watched and saw him go down Lord Rolle's area there - He returned, I followed him into Mount-street, and asked him what was under his coat? he said it was a hat he had bought of a Jew in Oxford-street. I took him back to Lord Rolle's, where it was claimed.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

Prisoner's Defence. I bought it in Upper Grosvenor-street, of a Jew.

GUILTY . Aged 23.

Confined Six Months and Whipped .

Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.




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