Title: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
Date: 11 January 1827
Place: London
WILLIAM PLUCKROSE was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of December, 1 goose, value 6s. , the goods of John Symes.
JOHN SYMES. I keep a poulterer's-shop in Lamb's Conduit-passage. On the evening of the 19th of December, about nine o'clock, I was in my back-room, and saw the prisoner come into the shop, take a goose, and run out with it; I ran out, calling Stop thief! and saw him drop it - I saw him stopped, without losing sight of him; I am certain of him - two or three persons were round him.
JAMES BENSON. I am a watchman of Red Lion-square. I heard a cry of Stop thief! and found the prisoner in custody.
Prisoner's Defence. I had drank too much - one of my companions took the goose, and threw it at me; whether it was any design at me, being a tailor, I do not know - I took and threw it at him, but it was only a lark.
GUILTY. Aged 31. Confined Six Weeks.
William Pluckrose was arrested on 20 December 1826 and later appeared in the Marylebone Magistrates' Court where he was remanded in custody.