Borough Police: … Tuesday, Before J. Stafford (in the chair), J. H. Williams, W. Winterton … (etc) … … Alfred Hallam, shoe riveter, 2, Queen-street, was chanted with stealing 2s. 6d., the money of John Pinsent, keeper of the Sir Robert Peel beer house, Bedford Street, on the 20th April. — Prosecutor said on Monday afternoon his wife gave him half a crown to change and used the word “Alf.” He went into the tap room and asked whose change it was, and Hallam said “mine,” and he gave him 2s. 6d. He did not think it was right and went to ask his wife about it. Whilst doing so, the prisoner went out of the house. Afterwards he went to the Melton Street Brewery, where he saw the prisoner – told him he had made a mistake and asked for the 2s. 6d again. Prisoner said he had never had it, and he got him into custody. — Mrs. Pinsent said she received a half-crown from a young man named Alfred Frith, and gave it to her husband, asking him to change it for “Alf,” meaning Frith. — A man who was in the taproom of the “Sir Robert Peel” deposed to seeing the prisoner receive some money from the prosecutor. — P.C. Lenton said he received the accused into custody. — When he charged him with the offence he replied, “I never done it; I never had it.” Hallam now admitted the offence — He was recommended to leniency by prosecutor, and fined 10s- or seven-days’ hard labour.
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Referenced
GRO0229 Tiverton: Elizabeth Johnson: 1837 – 1909
GRO0501 Tiverton: John Pinsent: 1836 – 1899