Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th September 1715
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
.