Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th July 1772
564. (M.)
GEORGE
LOVELL
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1437.
was indicted for that he
on the king's highway, on
Thomas
Collier
< no role >
, did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and stealing from his person a silver watch, value 50 s, the property of the said Thomas
, June 8
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Thomas
Collier
proceedingsvictim
. I am a coachman
; I lodge in Swallow-street; I am out of place; I lately drove for Mr. Steward in Swallow-street. On the 8th of June, about ten o'clock at night, as I was coming on foot from Sadler's Wells with a young woman, I was robbed in the Islington Road
, about half a mile this side of Battle-Bridge, just by the Bowling Green.
George
Lovell
< no role >
and another man came up and presented a pistol to us, and demanded our money or our lives; I said not a word; the other man took the watch out of my pocket, and then the prisoner said, your life or your money! then I swore an oath, seized the prisoner, and threw him down, and swore he should have my life before he should have my money; he got up and I threw him down again; he got up I believe again, and I threw him down, and kept him in custody till I got assistance; I don't know what passed between the young woman, and the other man. I took Lovell to Battle-bridge, and enquired for a constable; going along he tried to get away, but I said he should not get away from me; when I collared him, he gave his hand a twist, and threw the pistol over the rails into the grass; we looked for it that night, but could not find it.
- Bridges. I was along with Collier on Whit-Monday, the 8th of June; we had been at Sadler's Wells; two men came up to us, and demanded our lives or our money; Collier threw Lovell down; the other man continued with me, and did not go to his assistance; I seeing some people coming, made towards them, and then he made off.
Prisoner's Defence.
I hope to be recommended to the mercy of the court. I am a tinker by trade.
Prosecutor. The man that made his escape got my watch.
Guilty
.
Death
.
See No. 554 in this sessions, and see him tried for man-slaughter, No. 589, in Mr. Ald. Harley's mayoralty.