Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
5th December 1718
Thomas
Easton
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Andrews-Undershaft
was indicted for
feloniously stealing 33 Guineas and other Money, to the value of 35 l.15 s. in the Dwelling House of
Robert
Morley
proceedingsvictim
the 19th of October
last: It appear'd by the Evidence that the Prisoner had been Servant
to Mr. Morley at the King's-Arms Inn in Leadenhall-street
, but being gone away, came with some other of his Accomplices and privately got into the House, broke open a Door of the Room where the Money lay, and also a Box, and took out the Money in a Silk Purse, and coming out gave the Purse to his Comrades, who afterwards appointed him to meet them at a certain Place, in order to have his dividend of the Money, and that they told him there was not so much in the Purse as he imagin'd, and gave him 8 l. for his share: This he confess'd before the Justice after his apprehension, but deny'd it all upon his Tryal. The Jury however found him
guilty
of the Indictment.