Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th October 1722
Abel
Wild
proceedingsdefend
, of St. James Westminster
, was indicted for
privately stealing from
James
Barber
proceedingsvictim
, a Handkerchief, value 3 s.
on the 17th of September
last. Jame Barber deposed, that the last Execution day at night, standing in Princes Street Leicester Fields
, to hear 4 Boys play on the Violin, he felt the prisoners hand in his Pocket pulling out his Handkerchief; which taking hold of himself, he pull'd at one end, and the prisoner (keeping his hold) pulled at the other, till at last the prisoner twitch'd it through his Hand, and threw it behind him. He secur'd the prisoner, but could not find the Handkerchief again.
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]