Police Intelligence: At the Guildhall on Tuesday last, before the Mayor, G. Coles, Esq., Dr. Paterson, and W. H. Gamden, Esq.: George Radford, was charged by Robert Pinsent with stealing a sovereign from him at the Phoenix Inn. It appears the complainant and Radford, with a man named John Crampton, were drinking together at the Phoenix on the 11th inst. when Pinsent dropped a sovereign. Search was immediately made but it could not be found, and suspicion rested on the defendant, but as he was not seen to take it the magistrates discharged him.
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