Stealing Oats: Wm. Horsham, who had been locked up twelve days having been unable to procure bail, was charged with stealing from his employers, the Messrs. Pinsent of Were Barton Kingsteington, a nose bag and a quantity of oats, valued at 5s, on the 15th December. Prisoner at the former hearing pleaded “guilty;” his plea now was “not guilty of knowing what I did.” He said he was very drunk and asked his master if in the 20 years he had worked for him he ever knew anything against him before. His master confessed to having heard reports, but never till then, having caught him in the act. In consequence of his already long incarceration, he was ordered to be further locked up until six o’clock and then discharged.
[see also Western Times: Friday 30th December 1870]
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Referenced
GRO0369 Hennock: Gilbert Pinsent: 1840 – 1918
GRO0449 Hennock: James Pinsent: 1842 – 1902