Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

31st August 1692

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James Crook proceedingsdefend was Tryed for Felony, in driving his Coach and Horses against one Edward Newman proceedingsvictim , as he was driving his Cart near the Conduit in Tyburn Road , on the 25th of July last: The matter of fact appeared thus, The Prisoner and the Deceased meeting in the Road, a Quarrel arose about giving the Way, and the Prisoner was seen to force the Pole of his Coach against the Deceased, which thrust him down before the Wheel of the cart, which run over him and brusied him, insomuch that he Died ; but this was only a Boys Evidence, who might be mistaken in the matter, and the Prisoner called several Persons, who declared, That the Deceased was on Horse-back, driving his Cart, and the Horse so stumbling, he fell off under his own Cart-Wheel, and that the Coach-man was behind him when it was done, and in no ways concerned in the matter, So he was Discharged .




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