excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), September 1768, trial of Alexander Gordon (t17680907-32)' (247 words)
excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), September 1768, trial of Alexander Gordon (t17680907-32)' (247 words)
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[Alexander Gordon was found guilty on 7 September 1768 of grand larceny and sentenced to transportation] George Abbott: I am an out-pensioner at Chelsea College ; I was coming through the Strand with my daughter; I went in at the Coach and Horses near the New Church on the 14th of July, about nine in the evening; I called for some beer, the prisoner was sitting there drinking; he finding I had been a soldier, he being one fell into discourse with me; I treated him with some beer; during that time he took an opportunity to take my purse, there were two guineas in money in it[.] […] Prisoner [Alexander Gordon]. There were two women there, one he calls his daughter, but she was a common prostitute, who continually was importuning more money from him, and he went and sat by the other woman, she sung a good song, and he went and got near her. […] Prisoner's defence In regard to this charge, I shall in the sequel satisfy the court and gentlemen of the jury that it is an unjust charge […] On the 14th of July […] I met a woman that I had been acquainted with, I took her to the Coach and Horses and had a pint of beer; we were there above an hour before this man came in; he came in, she being singing he called for a pot of beer, and after that two or three more; he paid his reckoning, and I paid mine[.] |
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