Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 19 May 1877
Trial Of Prisoner.
Pleaded Guilty.
Francis Baynes (on bail), labourer, pleaded guilty to having unlawfully assaulted Mary Priest, Sheffield, on the 19th inst.
Mr. Gatty, who prosecuted, said that the prisoner had committed the assault without the slightest provocation on the prosecutrix, who was 69 years of age.
Prisoner was drunk at the time, and was quarrelling with some other persons. —Committed for six months.
Theft by a Married Woman.
Sarah Ann Stanley, 31, married, nail cutter, was found guilty of stealing a shovel and pudding tin, the property of Win. Turton, at Wath-upon-Dearne, the 20th of April.
Mr. Tennant prosecuted.
Committed for three months.
Breaking into a Booking Office at Wath.
Charles Allen, 20, a shunter, late in the employ of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, pleaded guilty to having broken into the booking office at Wath-upon-Dearne, on the 22nd ult., with intent to commit a felony.
He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
Robbing a Brother
Thomas Guest, 27, moulder, was sent to prison for nine months with hard labour for stealing a ecoat, waistcoat, and a pair of trousers from his brother, at Wath upon Dearne, on the 26th March, 1877.
Prisoner, who had been previously convicted, pleaded guilty to the charge.
Mr. Gatty prosecuted.
Theft of a Suit of Clothing.
Thomas Quest, labourer, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes, the property of his brother, Wm. Guest, moulder, at Swinton, on the 26th March, 1877. The prisoner was living at his brother’s house, and left on the day named, taking the clothes with him. Inquiries were mode, and it was found that he had taken them to Sheffield and got two young girls to pledge them.
He was committed to the Sessions for trial