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Old Bailey Online JOHN PETRIE. Theft; theft from a specified place. 14th January 1784. Text type Trial account Defendants JOHN PETRIE Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 14th January 1784 Reference Number t17840114-36 Verdicts Guilty > Theft under 40s Punishments Transportation 181. JOHN PETRIE was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 16th of December last, eight cloth coats, value 6 l. twelve waistcoats. value 5 l. eight pair of breeches, value 3 l. six handkerchiefs, value 6 s. six stocks, value 6 s. one pair of silk breeches, value 15 s. six linen sheets, value 20 s. three linen table cloths, value 10 s. six linen tow els, value 3 s. two morning gowns, value 50 s. two fuzees, value 3 l. a pair of pocket pistols, value 30 s. one silver mounted sword, value 4 l. four pair of silk stockings, value 10 s. three pair of thread stockings, value 3 s. and fifty linen shirts, value 20 l. the property of Archibald Campbell , Esq. and one steel mounted sword, value 20 s. the property of Duncan Campbell , Esq. in the dwelling house of John Hayman . GUILTY Of stealing to the value of 39 s. Court to Prosecutor. Where did you get the prisoner from? - He was a soldier in the regiment. Mr. Recorder then passed sentence upon the Prisoner as follows: Prisoner at the bar, you have been convicted of an offence on very clear and satisfactory evidence, which, as charged in the indictment, would have affected your life; the tenderness of the witnesses with respect to the value of some of the articles, has reduced the offence, so that the verdict of the Jury does not affect your life; but the Court think themselves bound to take notice of the circumstances of agravation with which your offence was attended, being a theft against that master whose property it was your duty to protect, and being a very aggravated breach of trust; for it appears, you have passed a great part of the time you have been here, in plundering this gentleman from time to time, until at last you had almost stripped him; therefore the Court thinks no punishment short of death can be too severe for your offence, and the sentence of the Court upon you is, that you be transported for seven years .