Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
4th July 1722
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.