Old Bailey Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
OB | PS

1789

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMOBPS450360482

Image 482 of 653


Middlesex
to Wit}

The Information of Mary Smith< no role > Wife of
William Smith< no role > at No.7 Buckeridge Street Saint
Giles Sarah Harris< no role > at No. 18 Peter Street
Westminster Single Woman James Webb< no role > Private
Soldier in the Cold Stream Regiment of Guards
Christoper Cridland, of Kemps Court Berwick
Street Shoemaker , and Alexander Bryson< no role >
of Little Marylebone Street Weaver taken on
Oath before me this 14th. day of October 1789

Who being on Oath severally say and First said
Mary Smith< no role > for herself says that last night about a quarter Past eight
O' Clock at the top of Oxford road she and the said Sarah Harris< no role > being
then in company to gether were Accosted by the said James Webb< no role >
and the Prisoner now Present Who calls himself Joseph Webb< no role > that
they asked this Informant and said Sarah Harris< no role > to go along
with them Which they agreed to and then went into Hyde
Park that they then Divided Themselves this Informant & the said
Joseph Webb< no role > being together and the said Sarah Harris< no role > and James
Webb
< no role > being some Distance off that this Informant Requested
said Joseph Webb< no role > would give her one Shilling before she Would
Permit him to have any Connection with her Which he Refused
to do that upon her Persishing in her demand he Knocked
her down Knecled upon her Stomach and asked her if she had
got any Money that she told him she had not any upon Which
he drew a Knife and said he Would Murder her if she did not
Give him her Money that she said Joseph Webb< no role > then by force
took out of her Pocket Four Shilling in Silver and a pocket Handkerchief and then ran
away that during this transaction she cryed out Murder
several time And the said Sarah Harris< no role > for Herself says that
she went into Hyde Park at this time and was with the said




View as XML