The Sheffield Daily Telegraph page 2, Wednesday 29 October 1856.
Town Hall, Yesterday
Before J Haywood Esq, V Corbett Esq, R Bayley Esq, and Rev J Hand
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The Robbery at Deepcar
W Knight, Samuel Knight and Thomas Brown, charged with the robbery at Deepcar were again brought up. The case has before been fully reported in this paper - Mr Festson appeared for the two Knights, Mr Broadbent for Brown. In answer to Mr Fretson, Mrs Duke said that the room in which the three prisoners slept was a double-bedded room and that four other men slept in the same room, but they left the house by five o'clock in the morning, and that was before the robbery was committed. These four men were regular lodgers in the house , and had lodged there for some years. Mr Raynor stated that yesterday morning, the prisoner Samuel Knight sent a message to him, saying that if permitted he would tell all he knew about the affair. Mr Raynor then sent for him up and he said that the day before the robbery Brown came and asked him and his brother to take a walk into the country, but nothing was said about a robbery. They got as far as Deepcar and slept at Duke's public house as stated. After they left in the morning, Brown gave each of them 10s 6d., but they did not know where he had got it. Mr Fretson contended that his clients could not have known that Brown had committed the robbery for if they had they would not have been content with so small a portion of it as a guinea between them. Mr Albert Smith said this evidence could not be taken so long as Knight was a prisoner, nor unless the prosecutor was willing. The two prisoners, Samuel and William Knight were then remanded at large, and Brown was charged with stealing 10s, the property of Mr Beal, scissors manufacturer, Jericho street. .................. (the article continues and Brown was committed for trial on the charge re Mr Beal, the scissors manufacturer).
ADD, so the three had originally been held on Remand, IN CUSTODY as on the day of the trial the three were 'brought up' ie brought up to the bench magistrate, from the (police/prison/lockup) cells, and once the court heard the statement from the Knights, and the explanation from their legal representative, they were released - ie remanded at large. So no further action was taken, and the charges fall away after the statutory period of time. And Chas has already noted this was three weeks.
JM
