Charles Hewlings

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Roger Churm on 23rd May 2019

Old Bailey Proceedings 1786 Charles Hewlings Theft,burglary 22nd February 1786 223.Charles Hewlings was indicted for burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Joseph Marshall,about the hour of eight in the night,on the 17th day of January last,and burglariously stealing therein one wooden till,value 2d and sixty two halfpence,value 2s 7d and 10s in monies numbered his property. Elizabeth Thomas sworn I live with Marshall in St Clements church yard,he keeps a house there,he is a stationer and tobacconist,a few minutes before eight,I shut the shop door after I had served a customer. Did you fastened the door,I put my latch on,I did not lock it,and soon after I saw the prisoner at the foot of the stairs,with the till in his hand,I did not hear any body open the door,and the prisoner went out with the till in his hand,I followed him and cried stop thieves,he was pursued and taken,out of my sight,but I am sure he is the man,there was about 10sin silvery,and some halfpence,I am very sure I shut the door and put down the latch that I might hear it. But you did not hear it-I always here it. Does the latch go hard.Yes Then did number it strike you at the time that you must have left it open,as you did not hear it. No because I was sure I shut itm Jonathan White sworn I apprehended the prisoner on the cry of the last witness,and brought him back,there was no other person running nearly there at the time. Samuel Alton sworn Produced the till and money,which he found at his back door,two doors away from the prosecutor's Prisoner.I am innocent. The prisoner call four witnesses which all gave him a good character. GUILTY OF stealing only Transported for Seven Years Tried by the first Middlesex jury before Mr Baron Perryn