excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 February 2019), April 1759, trial of John Ashmore (t17590425-23).' (170 words)
excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 February 2019), April 1759, trial of John Ashmore (t17590425-23).' (170 words)
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[John Ashmore was acquitted of pocketpicking on 25 April 1759] Catharine King: I live at the Blackmoor's Head in Brook's-Market. Q. Do you remember any thing of the prosecutor [Thomas Mayo] and prisoner being together at your house? King. I do; the prisoner was there some time before the prosecutor came in; they had a pot or two of beer together; then I perswaded [sic] the prosecutor to go home. Q. What time was that, that you wanted him to go home? King. That was between five and six o'clock; they were both in liquor; they staid drinking there 'till it grew later; the prisoner said he would go and see the other home[...] Prisoner’s defence [Ashmore, prisoner] I am a smith; I came to take a forge, and went to buy tools to set myself up; I went in at Mrs King's where I have us'd for several years; I was a little elevated in liquor; I was singing a song, and the prosecutor [Mayo] would force himself into company[.] |
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