Cambridge General Advertiser 14 May 1845: William Smith committed to trial for stealing
William Smith, a shoemaker, of Trumpington, remanded from the previous day on a charge of stealing a tea caddy, from the house of George Hayward, publican, of Trumpington-street, was brought up for re-examination. The prisoner went into the Bell public-house on Tuesday morning about 10 o’clock, and directly after his departure the caddy was missed. Suspicion falling on the man he was followed to his home at Trumpington by p.c. Stretton, who took him into custody at the time, telling him the nature of the charge which he denied. On search being made the caddy was found concealed in a slop pail in the shop. The prosecutor Hayward, who had evidently attempted to compromise the matter with prisoner’s friends, gave his evidence in a most evasive manner, and was severely reprimanded by the magistrates. This made it necessary to produce his wife, who accordingly appeared this day and identified the tea caddy as one given to her by Lord Lyttleton 14 years ago. He was committed for trial to the sessions.