Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
13th May 1714
James
Jones
proceedingsdefend
of the Parish of St. Botolph Aldgate
, was indicted
for breaking the Shop of
Amram
Fordham
proceedingsvictim
, on the 27th of April
last, in the Night-time, and stealing 7 Dozen of Stockings, value 3 l. and other Goods
. The Evidence were two Watchmen, who swore, That hearing a Noise in the Shop, they went in, and found the Prisoner there, and the Goods put up in a Bag; and that the Padlock of the Door was broke off, and the Stock-lock pick'd. He had nothing to say in his Defence, but that he was a Stranger come from Bristol, and that he found the Shop open, and went in to lye there, having no Lodging. The Jury found him
guilty
of Burglary.