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

22nd April 1789

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289. JOSEPH POCOCK proceedingsdefend and WILLIAM BAKER proceedingsdefend were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Anthony Maley proceedingsvictim , on the 1st of January last, about the hour of nine in the night, and burglariously stealing therein 120 pair of worsted stockings, value 10 l. twenty-four pair of thread ditto, value 24 s. three pair of silk ditto, value 24 s. two pair ditto, value 8 s. and eighteen pair of ditto, value 3 l. his property.

MARY MALEY < no role > sworn.

My husband's name is Anthony Maley < no role > ; we lodged at Mr. Peter Cavernor < no role > 's house; Mr. Cavernor had not lived there since last Christmas was a twelvemonth; my husband was in Ireland.

Court. This indictment is wrong laid; it is not the dwelling-house of Anthony Maley < no role > ; but we can try them for the felony.

Mrs. Maley. I had been out on the night of the robbery; I left the stockings, they were in two bags; I had only gone next door; I came in about ten; the goods were in the shop below stairs when I went out; and when I came back I missed the goods.

- DIXON sworn.

I am an officer; I had these things from John Watkins < no role > .

JOHN WATKINS < no role > sworn.

I had these things from Reynolds the accomplice.

Court. Gentlemen of the Jury, you see there is evidence in this case also against Reynolds, but not against the prisoners.

BOTH NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.




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