Trying to find a report in a local paper 1835

[FelicityH]

I am researching Francis Wetton who was tried at the Derbyshire Quarter sessions at Chesterfield in April 1835 for stealing money by false pretences.  He was transported for 7 years. 
The National Archives summary (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12761411  ) states :
 Annotated : This application prays  for the actual transportation of the prisoner on account of his notorious behaviour.  Correspondence: Letter from 33 inhabitants of Castle Donington, Leicestershire.  They state that the convict is of the most notorious character and a danger to society at large; as a clerk to several attorneys he has used forgery, false representation and unlawful means to reduce the families to poverty.
So my questions are - 1.  Why can I find no report of this case in local papers?  (I have searched long and hard via BNA)  and 2.  How come he only got 7 years ?

[giblet]

Loughborough Police Report
Date: Friday,  Mar. 6, 1835
Publication: Leicester Journal (Leicester, England)
Volume: 84 , Issue: 4361

Francis Wetton, of Castle Donington, charged by Robert Glover and Richard Thacker, with obtaining £1 under false pretences. Wetton pleaded the authority of Mr. Smith, in whose office be had been engaged—failing to prove which, be was committed for trial.

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Date: Wednesday,  Apr. 22, 1835
Publication: Derby Mercury (Derby, England)
Issue: 5362

Convicts.-Yesterday morning Francis Wetton and Josiah Barrowclough were removed from our County Goal at to be conveyed to Woolwich and placed on board the Ganymede Hulk, until their several-sentences of transportation can be further carried into effect.

[mckha489]

Leicester Journal
27 March 1835

Has a Francis Whetton 34 .
17s from Mrs Mary Thacker about 2 & half years ago


Although this one

Leicester Chronicle, or Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser.
28 March 1835

“Defrauding wife of Richard Thacker”
Says he was discharged.


OCR is giving Fraucis Wbettou

[bbart]

Although this one

Leicester Chronicle, or Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser.
28 March 1835

“Defrauding wife of Richard Thacker”
Says he was discharged.


OCR is giving Fraucis Wbettou

The OCR is picking up the Not Guilty from the item above, not his.  His last name is written as Whetton in the article.

[mckha489]

Although this one

Leicester Chronicle, or Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser.
28 March 1835

“Defrauding wife of Richard Thacker”
Says he was discharged.


OCR is giving Fraucis Wbettou

The OCR is picking up the Not Guilty from the item above, not his.  His last name is written as Whetton in the article.

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[Neale1961]

From Francis Wetton’s convict record:
Transported for obtaining money under false pretences.
Gaol report ….supposed very bad,  Had been guilty of gross frauds, on the lower order, & supposed forgeries.
Hulk report . Good, widower, 5 children. Stated offence obtaining money by false pretences, prosecutor Robt Briggs at Tarlingstone, once a similar offence discharged no Bill.
Surgeons report, not to be trusted in any one way.


( I don't know Tarlingstone - perhaps should be Arlestone)

[mckha489]

If this is a close relative, you might have to pay for that TNA record to be digitised.

[Neale1961]

The prison hulk records say he was convicted at Chesterfield 7 April 1835

[mckha489]

At last! OCR is WEILON.