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

6th May 1818

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832. HENRY COX proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, on the 10th of April , one pair of shoes, value 2s., the goods of James Lindsay proceedingsvictim , Esq., commonly called Lord Lindsay; and one pair of shoes, value 2s., the goods of James Lindsay proceedingsvictim , Esq .

GEORGE MORSE < no role > . I am servant to Lady Ann Burrell < no role > . On the 10th of April, about half-past ten o'clock in the morning, the prisoner came down the area steps, and rattled the door; in about a minute he went into the servant's hall, took two pair of shoes, and put them into his bosom - He went out with them, I took him in the area, with them. They belong to Lord Lindsay and Captain James Lindsay.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

Prisoner. I was distressed.

GUILTY . Aged 20.

Confined One Month .

Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.




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