1842 : Thomas Pluckrose - Convicted of Stealing some lead pipe

Source: Old Bailey Proceedings: Reference Number: t18421212-391
Date: 12 December 1842
Place: London

JAMES BAYLEY , THOMAS PLUCKROSE, DAVID MYERS, and JOHN TOOTH, were indicted for stealing, on the 5th of Dec., 36lbs. weight of lead pipe, value 3s. 6d., the goods of Charles Morton.

MR. METCALFE. conducted the Prosecution.

CHARLES MORTON.   I keep the Tiger's Head, at Lee, in Kent. I employed the prisoners' master to paint the house—all the prisoners were employed there on the 4th or 5th of Dec.—on the 6th I missed some lead pipe which had been dug up out of the garden where there had formerly been a brewery—I had seen it safe on the 2nd or 3rd of Dec.—I have not seen it since.

Cross-examined by MR. BALLANTINE.  Q.   Are you quite certain about all these prisoners being at work on that day?

A.   I am certain they were at work on Monday, the 5th of Dec.—I saw them at work, and can speak clearly to them—I knew this pipe was in the ground—it was worth 4s. or 5s.

RICHARD LEVBRSUCH.   I am a gardener, and live at Lee. On the 5th of Dec. between four or five o'clock in the afternoon I saw Pluckrose in Mr. Morton's garden, and saw him chuck a piece of lead pipe over the fence to Bayley, who was on the other side—Bayley took it, I am sure.

Cross-examined.  Q.   Where were you standing?

A.   I Was coming by—there is a fence which parts the path and the garden—I could see over the fence.

(Bayley received a good character.)

BAYLEY— GUILTY. Aged 32.
PLUCKROSE— GUILTY. Aged 17.   Both were sentenced to be confined two months.
MYERS and TOOTH— NOT GUILTY

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