<div1 type="trialAccount" id="t17801206-25"> <interp inst="t17801206-25" type="collection" value="BAILEY"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25" type="uri" value="sessionsPapers/17801206"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25" type="after" value="17801206"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25" type="before" value="17801206"></interp>
<join result="criminalCharge" id="t17801206-25-off130-c232" targOrder="Y" targets="t17801206-25-defend289 t17801206-25-off130 t17801206-25-verdict133"></join>
<p>28. <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-defend289"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-defend289" type="role" value="proceedingsdefend"></interp>
PHILIP SUTTON <interp inst="t17801206-25-defend289" type="surname" value="SUTTON"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-defend289" type="given" value="PHILIP"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-defend289" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
was indicted for <rs id="t17801206-25-off130" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-off130" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-off130" type="offenceSubcategory" value="pocketpicking"></interp>
stealing on the <rs id="t17801206-25-cd131" type="crimeDate">22d of November</rs>
<join result="offenceCrimeDate" targOrder="Y" targets="t17801206-25-off130 t17801206-25-cd131"></join>
, a linen pocket, value 1 d. two half-crown pieces, and two shillings and ten-pence half-penny, in monies, numbered, the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-victim291"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-victim291" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Sarah Kempson <interp inst="t17801206-25-victim291" type="surname" value="Kempson"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-victim291" type="given" value="Sarah"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-victim291" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<join result="offenceVictim" targOrder="Y" targets="t17801206-25-off130 t17801206-25-victim291"></join>
</rs>
, privily, from the person of the said Sarah </rs>
.</p>
<p> <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-person292"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-person292" type="role" value=""></interp>
SARAH KEMPSON <interp inst="t17801206-25-person292" type="surname" value="KEMPSON"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person292" type="given" value="SARAH"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person292" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
</rs>
sworn.</p>
<p>I was upon the road to Aylesbury on the 22d of November, near <rs type="placeName" id="t17801206-25-crimeloc132">Tyburn</rs>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-crimeloc132" type="placeName" value="Tyburn"></interp>
<join result="offencePlace" targOrder="Y" targets="t17801206-25-off130 t17801206-25-crimeloc132"></join>
, the day of the execution; I stood on the right-hand in the road to Paddington. The crowd was very great, I could not get through it, and was under the necessity of standing there; the prisoner, who stood next to me, stooped and put his hand up my petticoats; I immediately put my hand into my pocket, but the prisoner had then taken my money out of my pocket. The money was found in his hand. I lost two half-crowns, and two shillings and ten-pence half-penny, and a farthing; the money was in my pocket when he put his hand up my clothes. He was taken to a publick-house, by the assistance of some persons, and upon searching his pockets some money was found. I fixed upon a farthing and a halfpenny. The farthing had been burnt; I took<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178012060027"></xptr>
it out of the fire and rubbed it. The halfpenny was black, I had been in possession of it a considerable time. I had a new shilling; such an one was found in the prisoner's pocket, and two half-crowns.</p>
<p> <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-person293"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-person293" type="role" value=""></interp>
THOMAS HOSKINS <interp inst="t17801206-25-person293" type="surname" value="HOSKINS"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person293" type="given" value="THOMAS"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person293" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
sworn.</p>
<p>I was attending the execution. I saw the prisoner near the prosecutrix; I observed she was very much pressed and ill-treated. Just as the common convicts had been tied up, and the coiner was going on in the sledge, I heard the prisoner say, in a low voice, as if speaking to an accomplice, Now to work. I kept my eye upon the prisoner. <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-person294"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-person294" type="role" value=""></interp>
Sarah Kempson <interp inst="t17801206-25-person294" type="surname" value="Kempson"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person294" type="given" value="Sarah"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person294" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
</rs>
, the prosecutrix, was complaining of the pressure of the crowd. I assisted her in recovering her cloak. I observed the prisoner's hand upon her right pocket; then he took up her petticoats, and stooped downwards. I observed him in that position, and afterwards, when the girl (the prosecutrix) ha d cried out, it was a long time before he could recover himself. The prosecutrix cried out, some person has his hands under my petticoats, this man is robbing me. Upon her saying that, I immediately seised the prisoner. He was taken to a publick-house. I had great difficulty to prevent the crowd from taking him to duck him, which I did by representing to them the impropriety of such conduct. He was searched; his money was in two different pockets. There were two half crowns found in his pocket, two new shillings, an half-penny, and a farthing. The prosecutrix owned the half-penny and the farthing. She said she believed the two half-crowns and the shillings were her's. There was a small knife found in the prisoner's pocket. The prosecutrix's pocket was produced and it appeared it had been cut. The knife was proper for such a purpose.</p>
<p>( <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-person295"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-person295" type="role" value=""></interp>
Richard Grott <interp inst="t17801206-25-person295" type="surname" value="Grott"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person295" type="given" value="Richard"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person295" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
, the officer who stood near Hoskins at the execution, confirmed his testimony.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I am innocent of the business. One of these shillings I had had for some time; the half-penny and farthing I had before. I had been at a publick-house; I had offered the bad half-penny and farthing to the woman; she would not take them, so I had changed a shilling; that ten-pence was the change. I had the other shilling with five shillings at Mr. Weller's office, in change for a guinea, and the two half-crowns.</p>
<p>(The prisoner called two witnesses who gave him a good character.)</p>
<p> <rs id="t17801206-25-verdict133" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-verdict133" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-verdict133" type="verdictSubcategory" value="lesserOffence"></interp>
GUILTY of stealing the money, but NOT GUILTY of stealing it privily from the person </rs>
. <rs id="t17801206-25-punish134" type="punishmentDescription"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-punish134" type="punishmentCategory" value="imprison"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-punish134" type="punishmentSubcategory" value="hardLabour"></interp>
<join result="defendantPunishment" targOrder="Y" targets="t17801206-25-defend289 t17801206-25-punish134"></join>
N. 1 year </rs>
.</p>
<p>Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. <rs type="persName" id="t17801206-25-person296"> <interp inst="t17801206-25-person296" type="role" value=""></interp>
Baron PERRYN <interp inst="t17801206-25-person296" type="surname" value="PERRYN"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person296" type="given" value="Baron"></interp>
<interp inst="t17801206-25-person296" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
.</p>
</div1>

View as Text