Charge of Robbing the Peninsular and Oriental Company: At the Southampton Guildhall, on Monday, before Major General Tryon, Mr. E. Palk, Mr. J. H. Cooksey and Alderman Emanuel, magistrates, Ignacia Perireires, a man of colour, was charged with stealing a pillow, a blanket, two table napkins, and corkscrew, valued at 10s., the property of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. The prisoner was a passenger’s servant on board the Massilia on her last homeward voyage, and was an attendant on a sick person, Dr. Alexander. On the ship arriving at Southampton on Saturday week, Dr. Alexander was sent to Netley Hospital, two pillows, two blankets and a bed being sent with him, and the prisoner also went with him, and the prisoner also went away with him in a ban. On the following Monday, a pillow, a blanket, and the bed were returned and on Tuesday the bedroom steward, (Samuel Hanway) was sent to the Hospital to enquire for the missing things. On searching the room occupied by Dr. Alexander he found the pillow covered with two private slips, on the prisoner’s bed, the napkins under the bed, and in his dirty clothes’ bag the corkscrew. The prisoner was about to return to Bombay, per the steamer Poonah on Saturday, but on these things being found he was detained, and it was then discovered that he had two blankets sewn together, but these could not be identified as the property of the company, inasmuch as their private mark had been cut: In answer to the bench, Mr. Pinsent, superintendent purser of the company, said that whatever might be the result the investigation there, prisoner would be forwarded to Bombay on the first opportunity. The bench considered the evidence insufficient to support the charge and dismissed the prisoner.
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GRO0420 India: Henry John Pinsent: 1812 – 1894