Notes for: Charles Wilson
Cambridge Chronicle 12 Jul 1833:
Charles Wilson was charged with assaulting George Nicholls, the constable of Trumpington, in the execution of his duty. - The prosecutor was sent for to remove the prisoner from a beer-shop at Trumpington, where he was making a disturbance, and in endeavouring to do so, the prisoner struck him a violent blow and afterwards seized him by the collar and burst his neckcloth in two. He denied that he said he"owed him an old grudge," or that he would "fix him." - The use of these expressions was attempted to be shewn for the defence, which signally failed - guilty, four calendar month’s imprisonment.
Cambridge Independent Press 21 Jan 1843:
John Rayner was charged with assaulting Charles Wilson, of Trumpington, on the 9th instant, by striking him on the nose with his fist. Wilson had given information against Rayner's brother, some time since, for unlawfully snaring game, and hence the ill feeling arose. - Fined 24s. 6d., and 15s. 6d. expenses, or one month's imprisonment. - Defendant paid the money. - James Cambridge, who was in company with the last defendant at the time spoken of, was charged with a similar offence. - A witness named Dawes, deposed to Wilson's having shaken hands with this defendant , and then having challenged defendant to fight. - Fined 24s. 6d., and 15s. 6d. expenses, or two weeks' imprisonment.
Cambridge Chronicle 27 Jul 1844:
PRISONERS.
(Before Baron Alderson.)
William Smith, aged 29, of Trumpington, shoemaker, was indicted for having, on the night of the 3rd, or morning of the 4th of March last, feloniously broken and entered the counting-house of William Dawes, carpenter and builder, at Trumpington, and stolen therefrom five pictures, a pistol, 14 centre bits, an elastic shaving-machine, a saw, a frock-coat, two musical snuff-boxes, and other articles. Mr. BURCHAM prosecuted, and Mr. PRENDERGAST defended the prisoner. - William Dawes was in his counting-house on the afternoon of Sunday, the 3rd of March, when everything was in a safe and proper state: next morning the whole place was in confusion: he missed the various articles named in the indictment. The door was locked on the Monday morning, and it did not appear how an entrance had been effected; the lock was a very common one. Prisoner was in the habit of being occasionally on his premises. About a fortnight after the robbery, in a conversation with prisoner, he said he had the things, but he found them near Headland’s garden. - Mr. PRENDERGAST cross-examined prosecutor with a view of showing that the place broken into was not "a counting-house," but in this he failed. The men in prosecutor’s employ had been on the premises on the Monday morning before he discovered the robbery, and they were in the habit, but not without the knowledge of himself or wife, of taking the key of the counting-house to take out nails, &c - John Nicholls, parish-constable of Trumpington, searched prisoner’s house on the 26th of March, and he said he found the things first in Trumpington-street, and then in Silver-street, at 4 o’clock, in the afternoon, in a brown paper parcel: the pistol, he said, he borrowed of a man at Cambridge, but he did not know where he lived. Found none of the property in prisoner’s house. - George Hayward, landlord of the Bell public-house, Cambridge, deposed to the prisoner having offered various of the articles stolen for sale at his house, towards the end of May. - James Hellit, shoemaker, of Granchester, deposed to the prisoner having, about the 19th or 20th of May, offered to sell him a brass-barrelled pistol, first for 1s 6d and then for 1s. - Thomas Whittacker, picture-dealer, Cambridge, bought several of the pictures lost, from a person like the prisoner, in March, - Edward Morris, bookseller and picture-dealer, had some of the pictures offered for sale in March, by a person whom he could not identify. - Charles Wilson, gamekeeper to Colonel Pemberton, about a quarter before 2 on the morning of the 4th of March, saw prisoner in the street at Trumpington, about 70 yards from prosecutor’s house. - His Lordship thought there was no case for the jury; the prisoner was therefore acquitted.
Cambridge Independent Press 15 Jan 1848: William Loyd guilty of stealing carcase of mutton
SATURDAY.
STEALING A CARCASE OF MUTTON. - William Loyd (31), and William Hines (23), charged with stealing, on the night of the 4th of November, at Grantchester, one carcase of mutton, the property of Thomas Ellwood. - Messrs. SANDERS and NAYLOR for the prosecution: Mr. TOZER for the prisoner Loyd; Mr. NEWTON for the prisoner Hines. - The prosecutor is a butcher, residing on the Market-hill, Cambridge, where he has a shop. He has another shop and a slaughter-house at Granchester, where he also sells meat. The carcase of mutton was taken out of the shop at Granchester, by means, it is supposed, of the door being in some way or other unlocked. The prisoner Loyd lives at Trumpington, and Hines, at Barton. They were both at the Tally-ho, Trumpington, between six and seven in the evening of the 4th of November. They were afterwards at the Rose and Crown, Grantchester, which they left between nine and ten. In the parish of Trumpington there is a place called "The Cottage Garden," which is divided into 25 or 26 allotments, of about 20 poles each. Loyd’s father holds one of these allotments. Loyd himself is the possessor of a dog-cart, which is drawn by two dogs, also his property, one of them remarkable for having one eye and three colours, black, white, and brindled. At about ten minutes before seven in the morning of the 5th of November, Charles Willson, one of Colonel Pemberton’s gamekeepers, being out on his round, saw as he passed The Cottage Garden, both the prisoners in the allotment. He knew them well. Hines was digging a hole, and Loyd was looking on. The tricoloured dog and the cart were also there. Willson saw the prisoners put the meat into a bag, the bag into a sack, and the sack into the hole; and, after marking the spot, he went and informed the constable. - The meat was identified by the boy who killed the sheep. It was his first attempt at the delicate feat of dressing a carcase of mutton, in doing which he made a slip, and cut off part of the tail. - The learned counsel for the defence respectively addressed the Jury.- Mr. William Baker, of Barton, farmer, spoke in favour of Hines’s character. -The CHAIRMAN summed up. - Verdict, Guilty: Each seven years’ transportation.
Cambridge Independent Press 26 Feb 1853:
Mr. Rowling, farmer, of Trumpington, was charged with pound breach, he having caused to be liberated two sheep and two lambs, his property, which had been seized on land in the occupation of Mr. C. Wilson. It appears that 1s. was tendered for the damage done, which being rejected, the defendant committed the offence he was charged with. Mr. NAYLOR appeared for the defendant. - The Bench fined Mr. Rowling 7s. and expenses.