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

7th September 1715

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John Gaton proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster , was indicted for stealing a Silk Gown value 3 s. a Silver Spoon 6 s. the Goods of Robert Cashaw proceedingsvictim , on the 5th instant . It appear'd the Prisoner came into the Prosecutor's House to drink, and was in the Room where the Goods were: After the Prisoner was gone the Goods were miss'd, and a Chest of Drawers found broke; but the Fact not being prov'd directly upon the Prisoner, and the Evidence confronting themselves in point of Time, he was acquitted .




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