Newton Abbott Petty Sessions: … Stealing Barley: Wm. Pickett, on remand, and Wm. Pickett, senr. were charged with stealing 30lbs of barley of the value of 3s, the property of J. B. Pinsent, on the 17th January. The evidence: The evidence of the prosecutor and P.C. Cleave having been read over, Wm. Webber, a maltster in the employ of Mr. Pinsent deposed that he let the elder prisoner have the key of the malthouse on the previous night to do his (witness’s) work the next morning as he (witness) was not very well. The barley produced by the prosecutor was not like that found on the younger prisoner. Prisoners elected to be tried by a jury and were committed to take their trial at the next sessions at Exeter, Bail was accepted.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901