Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
17th January 1750
112.
Thomas
Biggs
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing one pair of single channel pumps, val. 15 s
the goods of
William
Gordon
proceedingsvictim
.
James
Williams
< no role >
deposed he saw the Prisoner take them from where a shoe-blacker used to stand: knowing him not to be the shoe-blacker, he pursued him and took him with the pumps upon him; there was the name
William
Gordon
< no role >
wrote within the pumps: but
William
Gordon
< no role >
not appearing, and the property not being fully proved, the Prisoner was
Acquitted
.