Tag: Old Bailey

Fifty-two million words’ worth of crime, punishment…and raw humanity

On this day in 1718… Peter Atyon , of St. James’s Westminster, was indicted on two indictments; one for stealing a Pocket and a Head-dress, val.2 s. of Margaret Davis , the 12th of April last. The Prosecutor deposed, as she was going along the Street she was thrown down, and her pocket pulled off, …

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