Devon Quarter Sessions: The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for Devon were opened at Exeter on Tuesday. Sir J. B. Phear presided …
Grand Jury: Messrs. John Steer, (foeman), W. L. Pincent, W. Smale, J. Hellier, R. Mortimer, A. Knapman, C. Salter, W. E. Baker, H. P. Fry, C. G. Lovesay, C. Leyman, D. Frost, J. Hearle, G. Higgins, S. S. Roase, E. Northy, S. A. Foster, S. W. Yolland, J. Couran, W. Sanders, R. W. Friend, E. S. Robinson and W. Pugsley. Sir John Phear, in charging the grand jury said there were sixteen prisoners for trial, one more than at the last Michaelmas Sessions; but the average for the past five years had been 16 4/5th …
The offences were mostly of a simple character, and if anything less serious than usual …
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