ALFRED ABEL, WILLIAM GURNEY, JOHN SHEPHERD, JAMES SNOWBALL, JAMES RICHARDSON, GEORGE GREENSLADE, HENRY SMALL, EDWARD SCADDING, WILLIAM BURN, PHILIP MARTIN, CHARLES YOUNG, HENRY ARGUE, THOMAS JONES, Breaking Peace > riot, 18th September 1848.

2183. ALFRED ABEL, WILLIAM GURNEY, JOHN SHEPHERD, JAMES SNOWBALL. JAMES RICHARDSON, GEORGE GREENSLADE, HENRY SMALL, EDWARD SCADDING, WILLIAM BURN. PHILIP MARTIN, CHARLES YOUNG, HENRY ARGUE , and THOMAS JONES , were indicted for unlawfully conspiring to excite insurrection and riot, and to obstruct by force the execution of the laws and preservation of the public peace, and to procure arms and ammunition for that purpose to which the following prisoners pleaded GUILTY :

ABEL; aged 23.—GURNEY; aged 42.—SNOWBALL; aged 32.—SCADDING; aged 28.—MARTIN; aged 45.—JONES; aged 39.—ARGUE; Aged 23.—And YOUNG; aged 38.— Confined Two Years, fined 10l. each , and to enter into their own recognizance in 20l., and find two sureties of 10l. each to keep the peace for five years.

SHEPHERD, RICHARDSON, GREENSLADE, SMALL, and BURN, who pleaded Not Guilty, entered into their own recognizance in 50l. each, to appear and take their trial upon this indictment when called upon.

(None of these defendants were called upon to plead to the indictment for felony.)


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