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

4th July 1722

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Thomas Pew proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 2857. (a Boy ) of St. Giles Cripplegate , was indicted for assaulting Cartwright Richardson proceedingsvictim on the Highway, and taking from him 8 s. in Money , on the 13th of May last. Cartwright Richardson depos'd, that between 12 and 1 on Whitsunday, coming over Moorfields , the prisoner rob'd him of his Money; but several Witnesses deposing that the Prosecutor was a Boy of an ill Character, very malicious, a great Liar, given to pilfering, and would not scruple to swear any thing, the Jury acquitted the prisoner.




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