<div1 type="trialAccount" id="t17951028-1"> <interp inst="t17951028-1" type="collection" value="BAILEY"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1" type="uri" value="sessionsPapers/17951028"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1" type="after" value="17951028"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1" type="before" value="17951028"></interp>
<join result="criminalCharge" id="t17951028-1-off1-c55" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-defend56 t17951028-1-off1 t17951028-1-verdict6"></join>
<join result="criminalCharge" id="t17951028-1-off1-c56" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-defend58 t17951028-1-off1 t17951028-1-verdict8"></join>
<p> <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="179510280003"></xptr>
471. <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-defend56"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-defend56" type="role" value="proceedingsdefend"></interp>
JOHN SKOWIN <interp inst="t17951028-1-defend56" type="surname" value="SKOWIN"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-defend56" type="given" value="JOHN"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-defend56" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-defend56" type="age" value="36"></interp>
</rs>
and <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-defend58"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-defend58" type="role" value="proceedingsdefend"></interp>
GEORGE DAVIS <interp inst="t17951028-1-defend58" type="surname" value="DAVIS"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-defend58" type="given" value="GEORGE"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-defend58" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
were indicted for <rs id="t17951028-1-off1" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-off1" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-off1" type="offenceSubcategory" value="grandLarceny"></interp>
feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17951028-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">15th of September</rs>
<join result="offenceCrimeDate" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-off1 t17951028-1-cd2"></join>
, a bushel of flour, value 14s. </rs>
the goods of <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-victim59"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-victim59" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Michael Shears <interp inst="t17951028-1-victim59" type="surname" value="Shears"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-victim59" type="given" value="Michael"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-victim59" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<join result="offenceVictim" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-off1 t17951028-1-victim59"></join>
</rs>
.</p>
<p> <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person60"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person60" type="role" value=""></interp>
MICHAEL SHEARS <interp inst="t17951028-1-person60" type="surname" value="SHEARS"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person60" type="given" value="MICHAEL"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person60" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17951028-1-viclabel3" type="occupation">baker</rs>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-viclabel3" type="occupation" value="baker"></interp>
<join result="persNameOccupation" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-victim59 t17951028-1-viclabel3"></join>
in <rs type="placeName" id="t17951028-1-crimeloc4">Goswell-street, Clerkenwell</rs>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-crimeloc4" type="placeName" value="Goswell-street, Clerkenwell"></interp>
<join result="offencePlace" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-off1 t17951028-1-crimeloc4"></join>
; the men were both my servants, <rs id="t17951028-1-deflabel5" type="occupation">journeymen</rs>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-deflabel5" type="occupation" value="journeymen"></interp>
<join result="persNameOccupation" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-defend56 t17951028-1-deflabel5"></join>
<join result="persNameOccupation" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-defend58 t17951028-1-deflabel5"></join>
.</p>
<p>Q. Did they work by the week? - Yes. I caught <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person61"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person61" type="role" value=""></interp>
John Skowin <interp inst="t17951028-1-person61" type="surname" value="Skowin"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person61" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person61" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
with the sack on his back; it was not a whole sack of flour, there was about a bushel in the sack, worth about fourteen shillings; I see him bring it out on the 15th of September, about one o'clock in the morning; he brought it out of my bakehouse; I caught him with it in Bridewell walk; I see him bring it up the steps out of the bakehouse.</p>
<p>Q. How far did you let him go before you took him? - No further than I could cotch him; and when I laid hold of him he dropped the sack off his back.</p>
<p>Q. How far was he from your door when he dropped it off his back? - It might be about fifty yards; that was the outside.</p>
<p>Q. Did you say any thing to him when you laid hold of him? - Yes, I called him a bad fellow, and told him I thought he would not have done the like; not only that, but I told him I thought it was not the first time; the answer that he made was, he hoped that I would let him go; and begged that, I would. I called out which I for a considerable time before the watchman came up; the patrol came up first, and I gave him in charge of the patrol; and afterwards the watchman came up, and I lifted the flour on the watchman's back, and he carried it to the watch-house.</p>
<p>Q. Who has kept the flour ever since? - I have in the sack. The sack belongs to the miller; but I have the papers when the flour was delivered in to me from the factor. I had two parcels, and I know the sack was delivered into my bakehouse in one of the parcels, by the papers, but I cannot say in which load. The sack is here, and the flour is in the sack.</p>
<p>Q. When had you last seen the sack in your bakehouse - I see it that day before I went out. It has the same mark as on the paper, T. S.</p>
<p>Q. Now all this, I understand, to have been proved against one of the prisoners, Skowin; what have you to say against the other, <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person62"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person62" type="role" value=""></interp>
George Davis <interp inst="t17951028-1-person62" type="surname" value="Davis"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person62" type="given" value="George"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person62" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
? - No more than I see him look out of a broken pane of glass two or three times before the man brought the flour out, and he shut the door directly after him.</p>
<p>Q. Then all that you can say is, that Davis was in the bakehouse at the time? - Yes.</p>
<p>Mr. Alley. You say that these sacks were marked by the miller's mark, that miller serves a great many other bakers, as well as you? - He does.</p>
<p>Q. Have you any body concerned with you in your business? - Nobody in the world.</p>
<p>Q. You usually work at night? - Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Therefore there is nothing uncommon in a man's being in a bakehouse at<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="179510280004"></xptr>
night; his business calls him there? - It does.</p>
<p>Court. Had you given him any orders to carry out any flour to any place that night? - No, I had not.</p>
<p> <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person63"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person63" type="role" value=""></interp>
DOROTHY PARNELL <interp inst="t17951028-1-person63" type="surname" value="PARNELL"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person63" type="given" value="DOROTHY"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person63" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
</rs>
sworn.</p>
<p>I live opposite to Mr. Shears; I see the man, George Skowin, come out of the bakehouse with the flour on his back, about one o'clock in the morning.</p>
<p>Q. What did he do with it? - I don't know; I never went out of my house. I heard the cry of watch! and I sprang my rattle. I see <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person64"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person64" type="role" value=""></interp>
George Davis <interp inst="t17951028-1-person64" type="surname" value="Davis"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person64" type="given" value="George"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person64" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
shut the door after him.</p>
<p>Q. When did Davis shut the door? - The moment the man came out with the flour.</p>
<p>Q. Are you a married woman or a widow woman? - A married woman.</p>
<p>Q. What is your husband? - He is a gentleman.</p>
<p>Mr. Alley. This was at one o'clock at night you say? - Yes.</p>
<p>Q. And after you heard the rattles spring you came to the window? - I sprung the rattle myself.</p>
<p>Q. What width is the street? - A very narrow street.</p>
<p>Q. What pair of stairs were you in? - In the one pair of stairs.</p>
<p>Q. Do you mean to say that that was the prisoner that you see across the street? - I see him very clearly by the light of the bakehouse, and by the light of the lamps. I can swear that that was the man.</p>
<p>Mr. Alley to Prosecutor. I believe after the prisoner Skowin was apprehended the other prisoner was in your service? - Yes, he was.</p>
<p>Q. And he, by your direction, attended at the magistrate's after the other was in custody? - Yes, he did.</p>
<p>Q. He knew the other was charged with this offence, and yet he attended at the magistrate's? - He did.(The flour and sack produced and deposed to.)</p>
<p>Prisoner Skewin. I leave it to my counsel.</p>
<p>Prisoner Davis. I know no more of it than a child unborn, of his going out at all.</p>
<p>The prisoner Skowin called four witnesses. and the prisoner Davis called four witnesses, who gave them both good characters.</p>
<p> <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person65"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person65" type="role" value=""></interp>
John Skowin <interp inst="t17951028-1-person65" type="surname" value="Skowin"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person65" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person65" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
, <rs id="t17951028-1-verdict6" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-verdict6" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
GUILTY </rs>
. (Aged 36.)</p>
<p> <rs id="t17951028-1-punish7" type="punishmentDescription"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-punish7" type="punishmentCategory" value="transport"></interp>
<join result="defendantPunishment" targOrder="Y" targets="t17951028-1-defend56 t17951028-1-punish7"></join>
Transported for seven years </rs>
.</p>
<p> <rs type="persName" id="t17951028-1-person66"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-person66" type="role" value=""></interp>
George Davis <interp inst="t17951028-1-person66" type="surname" value="Davis"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person66" type="given" value="George"></interp>
<interp inst="t17951028-1-person66" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</rs>
, <rs id="t17951028-1-verdict8" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17951028-1-verdict8" type="verdictCategory" value="notGuilty"></interp>
Not GUILTY </rs>
.</p>
<p>Tried by the first Middlesex, Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
</div1>

View as Text