excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), April 1741, trial of John Lopton (t17410405-52)' (130 words)
excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), April 1741, trial of John Lopton (t17410405-52)' (130 words)
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John Lopton was a 2d Time indicted […] for breaking and entering the Dwelling House of John Dearmore about 8 at Night, and stealing [clothing] the Goods of Ann Ukely, March 2 [1741]. Ann Ukely: On Monday the 2d of March, between 7 and 8 o'Clock in the Evening; Mr. Dearmore, and I were at Supper, and heard the Maid shut the parlour Windows. In about a Quarter of an Hour afterwards I went into the parlour, and found the Window pushed up, my Trunk open, and the Goods mentioned in the Indictment taken out. […] Prisoner. Was it light enough to distinguish one Person's Face from another? Dearmore. I opened the Stair-Case Window, and there was a Person singing Ballads, but it was so dark that I could not see whether it was Man or Woman. |
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