Exeter Guildhall: Yesterday: Mischievous Youth: William Gove, a little lad apparently about eight or nine, was summoned for causing an obstruction and damaging the windows of a house. The lad, it appears, was in the company of some fifty or sixty others on Sunday evening last, in Water-lane, assisting in breaking in the windows of an untenanted house, besides doing other mischief. Defendant had received a good whipping for what he had done and was now brought and reminded that such a thing was not permitted. In acting in the manner described the constable he had been guilty of an offence for which, the law generally inflicted a heavy punishment, but as he had already suffered in part for his wanton mischief the Bench were inclined to look in a little more lenient light on the matter: Fined 6d and costs. The mayor said that on the part of the Bench, he was greatly obliged to Mr. Pinsent (by whom the information was laid) for having brought a case of this kind before them and thought it a good example to many other citizens follow in order to put a stop to what was now becoming an intolerable nuisance.
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