Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
20th February 1695
Richard
Talent
proceedingsdefend
was arraigned and tried for
Picking the Pocket of one Mr.
Edward
Butler
proceedingsvictim
; who swore, that on the 9th of this Instant February
he was coming by Temple Bar
, and there being a stop with the Coaches, caused a great Crowd, amongst which his Pocket was pickt of 6l. in Money; he seized the Prisoner, but nothing was found about him. He could give but little account how he came there or what was his business; and was deemed to be an old pick-pocket, yet the Evidence did not touch him home enough to find him guilty. So he was
acquitted
.