Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
31st August 1692
Charles
Pynes
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and
Thomas
Noon
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, were both Tryed for a
Robbery in the Kings high-way, committed upon the Body of one
Rich.
Shallcross
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, Gent.
On the 19th of May
last; Mr Shallcross being passing along the High-way about 11 of the Clock at Night, between the two Kings gates at the end of Grays-Inn-lane
, where three or four Persons fell upon him, holding Pistols to his Breast, and threw him upon the Ground and gag'd him, and took from him two Gold Rings, value 12s. a Gold Seal'd Ring, value 24s. one Walking Cane with a inced Metal handle, value 11s. one half Guinea, and 30s in Money, &c.
But Mr. Shallcross could not charge the Prisoners positively to be either of the Men, but what knowledge he had was from Johnson, alias Gee, Condemned the last Sessions, which in Law was no Evidence: So they were both
Acquitted
. [Text unreadable in original.] suspicion of being
Guilty