Harborough

Petty Sessions, Tuesday, January 9.

Before the Rev. F. Apthorpe, W. De Capel Brooke, Esq., and the Hon. R. Watson.

John Coe and Martin Coe, father and son, were charged with stealing some wooden paling, at Desborough, Northamptonshire, the property of Mr. Morris Iliffe. The defendants admitted the charge. The father was fined £3 (costs included); the son discharged on account of his youth.

John Bates, of Desborough, was charged with over-holding a house or tenement at that parish, the property of Mr. W. M. Iliffe: a warrant of ejectment was issued under the first and second of Victoria, cap. 74.

Leicester Chronicle, Saturday 13 January 1844


FELONY.— John and Martin Coe, father and son, of Desborough, silk weavers, were charged by Mr. Thomas Payne with stealing a quantity of wood from the premises of Mr. Wm. Morris Iliff and Mr. Jas Biggs, of the same place, about one o'clock in the morning of new year's day. Mr. Payne was going from a friend's house, and met them with it. Coe stated that he had been drinking with several others that night, and they went into a stack-yard, where they left him, and when he was coming away he saw the wood and took it. The damage and costs amounted to £3, which he was ordered to pay in an hour, and the by to be discharged in which time the money was paid and he was liberated.

EJECTMENT.— Mr. W. M. Iliff, of Desborough, applied for a warrant to eject John Bates from the possession of a tenement he rented of him, legal notice having been given him without effect.— After twenty-one days' notice a warrant would be issued for ejectment.

Leicestershire Mercury, Saturday 13 January 1844