Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 The Newgate Calendar:
William Hitchin   Transported for Seven Years for stealing an
Exchequer Bill, September, 1810  AT the sessions at the Old
Bailey, September, 1810, this man, an old offender, better known
in London as the celebrated Bill Hitchin, was tried before a
London jury, for having, in the month of July, 1806, stolen from
the warehouse of Messrs Kent, London Wall, upholsterers, one
Exchequer bill, of the value of one hundred pounds.  It appeared
that the warehouse of the prosecutors was burglariously broken
open, and plundered of various property, to the amount of
several hundred pounds, at the period above mentioned, and no
trace of the robbers could be obtained till two years
afterwards, when the prisoner, being apprehended in the county
of Warwick for an offence committed there, was being searched,
and the Exchequer bill mentioned in the indictment was found
upon his person. Having been convicted of the crime at that time
imputed to him, and suffered impris