Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
22nd April 1691
William
Riggs
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,
Charles
Pearson
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,
James
Harris, alias
Barrow
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,
John
Acron
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, who were Indicted last Sessions, and selby, were all Indicted together with
H.
J.
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for
Robbing
Mr.
Saltmarsh
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a Watch, value 5 l. and 25 s. in Mony
, on the 5th of December
last. Mr. Saltmarsh swore, That several Persons to the number of six, met him on Ludgate-Hill
, and assaulted him in a Coach and took away the Watch and Mony; he swore possitively to Riggs and Acron, but was not so possitive as to Pearson and Harris. J - was Tryed for being Accessary to the former, but upon the Tryal it appeared that J - knew nothing of the matter, no father than as he was imployed by Mr. Saltmarsh to look after the Thieves, and to get his Watch again, which he did, finding it in the Custody of one Richard Rudd, a Notorious Pick-Pocket, who owned to have privately taken it from the Prosecutor: So Riggs was only found
Guilty
, but the rest were
Acquitted
.
[Death. See summary.]