Title:  Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 433
Date:   9 March 1851
Place: London

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

 

THURSDAY 6 March 1851

HIGHWAY ROBBERY. - Samuel Cole, alias Pluckrose, aged twenty-three, was indicted for a highway robbery with violence, on William Bishop. - The prosecutor, a dancing master, said that as he was crossing Haggerstone-fields on his road home, the night being dark, he fell in with a man whom he thought to be the prisoner, and who got into conversation with him. They had not got far when he was attacked by another, and they both got him down, cut his pockets from his trowsers, and robbed him of £12. They then made off, and the prisoner, being taken by the police on another charge, was seen by the prosecutor, who failed to recognise him by his features, but swore to his voice. - An alibi was set up, and the jury “Acquitted” the prisoner.

This is PL1934 in Tree 1010.