On 28 October 1789, David Braithwaite was caught halfway through a cellar window after breaking into William Webb’s London home. Tried that same day at the Old Bailey, he was found guilty of burglary and sentenced to seven years’ transportation. This vivid tale captures Georgian justice — clumsy, comic, and cruel.
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