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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 September 2023), September 1792, trial of                      ROBERT                      ARMSTRONG                                                                               (t17920912-13).<hr/><h2>ROBERT ARMSTRONG, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 12th September 1792. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>372.                                                       ROBERT                      ARMSTRONG                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 3d of September                     , a silk cloak, value 9 s. a linen apron, value 12 d. and a silk handkerchief, value 12 d.             the property of                                                       Hugh                      Macpherson                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>Mrs. MACPHERSON sworn.</p>               <p>I am wife of                                  Hugh                   Macpherson                                                                                       , I lost the things in the indictment, on the 3d of Sept. the parlour door was open, I went for a bason of water, and coming back, I found the prisoner in the house, running away with the property; he was stopped in two minutes; I saw the things taken from him.</p>               <p>                                                EDMUND                   WARREN                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I was going into Bread-street, and heard the cry of stop thief! the prisoner was running, I stopped him, I saw him heave the cloak into a house; to the best of my knowledge, this is the cloak; it is the same I gave to Mrs. Macpherson.</p>               <p>Prosecutor. It is the same.</p>               <p>Prisoner. Please your honor there was crying stop thief! I saw a young man running in a blue jacket, I ran the same as another, he threw something over my head, and I stooped down on my knee, and they took me.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY            .</p>               <p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr.                                  Baron                   HOTHAM                                                                                       .</p>               <p>                                                                                                [Imprisonment. See summary.]                                                </p>               <p>                                                                                                                     [Fine. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
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