Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th September 1722
Robert
Wilkinson
proceedingsdefend
, of Pancrass
, was a 3d time indicted for
assaulting
William
Ship
proceedingsvictim
on the Highway, and taking from him 2 Rings, value 20 s. and 4 s. in Money
, on the 26th November
last. William Ship depos'd, that between 5 and 6 in the evening, at Fig Lane
end, the prisoner with Shaw and Burridge, since both Executed, took hold of his Horses Reins, clapt a Pistol to his Head, and rob'd him. The Prisoner said nothing in his Defence.
Guilty
.
[Death. See summary.]