Burglary at Desborough
6th October 1871
JOHN CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT, 17, labourer, pleaded guilty to having broken
and entered the dwelling-house of Herbert Yeomans, and stealing £5
14s. 11d., the monies of the said Herbert Yeomans, at Desborough, on the
6th October.
—He had been twice previously convicted, on the last occasion for a
similar offence to the present, and was now sentenced to Twelve Months'
Imprisonment and Five Years' Police Supervision.
Northampton Mercury,
Saturday 21 October 1871
Note: There were two men named Herbert Yeomans in Desborough, both born
about 1827: Herbert
son of Richard Smith Yeomans, and
Herbert son of
Thomas Yeomans.