The Crime of Not Trying to Stop the Thief

Until the nineteenth century, if someone shouted, stop thief, you had no choice but to try and stop the thief. But would the crowd who were trying to stop the thief if you didn't join in, does some of the crowd then start tracing you? A ya h good point. If your non thief stopper, exactlyye wil,. There was a time in that, this was in 17 60, there was a jewish second hand clothes dealer, and he followed this what was known as huge and cry andat he was faster than everyone else - so they crabped him and arrested him. So i do think the crime of not stopping the thief wasn't as large as the crime