• Reference
    QSR1843/4/3/5
  • Title
    Return of persons committed, bailed or indicted at Quarter Sessions held on 17 October 1843. Gives names, crimes and result of commitments.
  • Scope and Content
    Amos Everitt, 25; William Brooks, 31; John Tompkins, 54; Thomas Gobby, 27 - sheep stealing - 10 years transportation James Denton, 19; John Denton, 15 - simple larceny - 7 years transportation William Humfrey - obtaining goods by false pretences - discharged, bill returned ignoramus Sarah Shelton, Simon Fowler, Samuel Coleman - simple larceny - discharged, bills returned ignoramus Jemima Brownhill - receiving stolen goods - discharged, bill returned ignoramus William Bailey, 45; John Tompkins, 54; James Giddins, 30; John Dines - simple larceny - acquitted Samuel Burrows, 17; William Laxton, 16 - simple larceny - 1 week imprisonment with private whipping Nikolay Pietrakowski, 42 - simple larceny - one week imprisonment David Croxford, 10 - simple larceny - one week imprisonment Mary Nicholls, 16 - larceny (being a servant) - 14 days imprisonment James Waller, 41; Francis Chapman, 19 - simple larceny - 2 months imprisonment Samuel Ward, 43 - simple larceny - 3 months imprisonment John Macdougall, 20; Elizabeth Marsh, 25 - larceny (being servants) - 4 months imprisonment Robert Davis, 48 - simple larceny - 4 months imprisonment John Chapman, 41 - simple larceny - 6 months imprisonment James Pain - an incorrigible rogue - 6 months imprisonment George Boddington, 22 - robbery from the person - 9 months imprisonment William Burrows, 39 - larceny (after previous conviction) - 12 months imprisonment with solitary confinement
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