Cambridge Independent Press 12 Jul 1889: Prime overcoat stolen

HOUSE BREAKING AT TRUMPINGTON. William Bell, 43, a baker, was charged with having on the 1st July, broken into the counting house of T. H. Prime, at Trumpington, and stolen an overcoat. He pleaded not guilty. E. G. Prime identified the coat. Evidence was also given that prisoner pawned the coat in the name of Huntingdon. Bell was found guilty, and he pleaded guilty to a previous conviction for felony in 1888 — The Chairman in passing sentence of 18 month’s [sic] hard labour, said prisoner had been convicted of felony at Bournemouth in 1883 at Winchester in 1884, at Southampton in 1888, and was under police supervision when he committed this last offence. — The jury after hearing the evidence found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour.