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1871 : James Pluckrose Charged with Feloniously Receiving

Source: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 1,472 4b
Date: 5 February 1871
Place: London

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

THAMES

THIEVES AND RECEIVERS. - Thomas Fogarty, aged 16 years, and James Pluckrose, 31, were charged before Mr. Lushington, the former with stealing a loaf of refined sugar, called a tittler, and the other with feloniously receiving the same, he well knowing it to be stolen. - Wilhelm Priggin, a German, in the service of Martineau and Co., sugar-refiners, St. George’s-in-the-East, identified a heavy tittler stolen from his employers’ sugar-house on Monday morning last (30 January 1871). - Stephen Magennis, a lad, saw the prisoner Fogarty and other boys climb into the ground-floor of the sugar-house on Monday evening, and come out with a tittler of sugar. Fogarty pulled off his jacket and covered the tittler with it, and ran away with it. There was an attempt to steal more sugar, which failed. - John Sheppard, a detective constable of the H division, went to the Lock publichouse, in Ratcliff, of which Pluckrose is the landlord, and told him that he had come for a tittler of sugar which he had bought for 6s. Pluckrose said, “No I did not buy the sugar, it was left here by a man who promised to call for it again.” - At the station-house, Pluckrose said the man from whom he had received the sugar had the appearance of a sailor. - Newman, another detective, gave similar evidence, and said the sugar, which was untouched, was found on the premises of Pluckrose. - Mr. Lushington remanded the prisoners for a week, and said he would take bail for Pluckrose himself in 100l., and two sureties of 50l. each. Notice must be given to Sheppard, the detective officer.

James Pluckrose, the publican, is PL1347 in  Tree 1006.
A tittler of sugar is otherwise known as a loaf of sugar.

See the next entry for a report on the trial at the Quarter Sessions.

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