WILLIAM DAWES.
Theft: grand larceny.
26th May 1819
Reference Number t18190526-135
Verdict Guilty
Sentence Transportation
901. WILLIAM DAWES was indicted for stealing, on the 25th of May , one table-spoon, value 10 s. , the goods of Lepman Polack .
LEPMAN POLACK. I am a tailor , and live in Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields . On the 25th of May the prisoner came to my house, and asked for some clothes for Mr. Jacobs; my sister called me down - I told him to send Mr. Jacobs himself for them. About three-quarters of an hour after he was gone I received information, and then missed the table-spoon off the beaufet. I went to a coffee-shop in Church-street with an officer, took him into custody, and asked him for the spoon; he said he gave it to Jacobs - he then pulled it out of his breeches-pocket.
SAMUEL MILLER . I am an officer. I apprehended the prisoner, and saw him give the spoon to the prosecutor.
(Property produced and sworn to.)
GUILTY . Aged 26.
Transported for Seven Years .
First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
