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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 October 2023), April 1817, trial of                      JOSEPH                      BELL                                                                               (t18170416-153).<hr/><h2>JOSEPH BELL, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 16th April 1817. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>691.                                                       JOSEPH                      BELL                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 10th of March                     , one pair of stockings, value 1s. 3d.            , the goods of                                                       Thomas                      Miller                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>                                                GEORGE                   EDWARD MORDAUNT                                                                                       . I am an officer. I took the prisoner into custody, on another charge, and found the stockings on him, which Miller claimed before the Magistrate. Since that, my house has been burnt down, and the property also burnt.</p>               <p>                                                      NOT GUILTY            .</p>               <p>Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.</p>            </div>
				
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