Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
22nd April 1789
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.