Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th April 1682
John
Belther
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,
William
Best
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, and one
Butler
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, were Indicted for
picking the Pocket of
Margaret
King
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, on the 27th of February
, of Nine Pounds, Fifteen Shillings
; the Two former, upon their being Apprehended,
confessing the same
, although one of them was not judged to be above 10 Years old, but there being no Evidence against the Third, only the confession of the accessaries, he was
acquitted
.
[Death. See summary.]