| Reference Number | t18290115-127 |
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| Verdict | Guilty > with recommendation |
| Sentence | Imprisonment |
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392. JOHN SHEPHERD was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of December , 7 lbs. weight of lead pipe, value 1s.; 1 brass cock, value 10d., and 1 screw-plate, with taps, value 6s. , the goods of Thomas Rowe .
CHARLES EVANS . I am a watchman. I stopped the prisoner in Cromer-street, about a quarter before two o'clock, on Christmas morning, with these articles inside his coat; I asked what he was going to do with them - he said he was trying to sell them; I asked where he lived - he said, any where where he could get money.
THOMAS ROWE . I live in Suffolk-street, Westminster . My workshop was broken open; it is about half a mile from Cromer-street; the prisoner left my shop about three o'clock, on Christmas-eve, and swore he would have something of mine before it was long - I let him work in my shop, because he said he had some work to do; he had two children, and nobody would let him work - these articles had been in a secret place in my shop, and nobody but him knew where they were; the door had not been broken, but a part of the partition had.
The prisoner pleaded poverty.
GUILTY . Aged 28.
Recommended to Mercy. - Confined Six Weeks .