Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th May 1818
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.