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Description: | Prosecutor: John Metcalf Smith of Newland, merchant (warehouses on Brayford Wharf).
Witnesses: Thompson Watkinson, foreman to JM Smith; Richard Inman of Good Lane, clerk and book keeper to JM Smith; Henry Singleton, police constable; William Lilburn of 11 Croft Street, police constable; William Smith of Brant Broughton, brother in law to Rawding; Thomas Smith, porter at the goods office of the Great Northern Railway; Thomas Hodgson, head ostler at the Crown Inn; John Burkes, under ostler at the Crown Inn; Thomas Hunt of Beckingham, miller; Thomas Minnitt of Brant Broughton, miller; Thomas Stennitt of Brant Broughton, labourer, lodger with Rawding; Donald McDonald of 46 Rasen Lane, police officer.
Accused: Joseph Bycroft, carter formerly employed by JM Smith; John Walton, carter employed by JM Smith; George Russell alias Johnny Sands, labourer formerly employed by JM Smith; Thomas Rawding of Brant Broughton, skin dealer. Bycroft and Russell had been discharged by Smith for misconduct.
Crime: 1st charge: Walton and Russell - stealing 2 sacks of white peas and 1 sack of peas and beans in the parish of St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln. Rawding - receiving the goods in the same parish, knowing them to have been stolen.
2nd charge: Bycroft, Walton and Russell - stealing 24 sacks of wheat and 3 sacks of beans in the parish of St Mary le Wigford. Rawding - receiving the goods, knowing them to have been stolen. | Subjects: | Country Estates Law & Order Church Of England Parishes Quarter Sessions Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | 18 Apr 1865 & 30 May 1865 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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