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Reported in the READING MERCURY, OXFORD GAZETTE, NEWBURY HERALD AND BERKS COUNTY PAPER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1867
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COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS, TOWN HALL, TUESDAY, DEC 3RD... - Elijah James, of Sandhurst, carman, and Henry Clacy, of the same place, labourer, were brought up in custody, charged by Supt. Millard with feloniously stealing two scaffold poles, value 7s. 6d., at Sandhurst, on the 12th ult., the property of the Messrs. Dove, Brothers, of Islington, builders. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner James was employed by the prosecutors to convey a number of scaffold poles and other articles from a new house they had finished near the Wellington College to the Railway Station, for the purpose of being taken back to their yard in Islington. This was completed on the 9th ult., and on the day in question the prisoner Clacy, according to instructions received from the other prisoner, took the poles in question to a carpenter named John Walters, to have them converted into ladders. The transaction, however, did not escape the vigilance of P.c. Charles White, of the Berks Constabulary, who on examining the poles found the prosecutor's mark upon them and took possession of them. Clacy, who was in the service of James and acted under his orders, was discharged. The prisoner James pleaded guilty, and in answer to the Bench, Supt. Millard said that up to the present time prisoner had borne a good character. A letter was read from the Rev. Mr. Spurling, of Wellington College, also giving him a good character. The Bench therefore sentenced him to three days' hard labour in Reading Gaol.
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