Record 19 (1732)

This record provides information on a robbery that included the theft of an ‘India Handkerchief’ in London.

The same Night we went on Board a Hoye, and went down the Forecastle, where we found the Men a Sleep, and there I took a Bagg with a Suit of Cloaths, a Holland Shirt, an India Handkerchief, a pair of Shoes and Buckles; after this Robbery we concluded to go Home; and going to Pepper-Alley-Stairs, with an intent to Land our Goods, but upon second Thoughts we thought it not safe, so we Landed at the Bankside; but coming on Shore, one Mr. Rice, or otherwise Mantrump, seeing us, and he knowing us to be Persons of different Characters, he came down and asked me for a Sculler, and said Osborn, you are better than a Sculler, so seiz'd me; upon which

Source: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 15 December 2022), Ordinary of Newgate's Account, June 1732 (OA17320605).