'From an 1870 newspaper'

From the 'Leicester Journal, Friday, February 4, 1870.'

BOROUGH POLICE.




MONDAY.- Before the Mayor (G.Stevenson, Esq.), J. Baines, S. Viccars, W. Miles, W. Hunt, and J. Howcutt, Esqrs.




John Green, Birstall, was charged with allowing two night-soil waggons to stand in Brunswick-street from twenty minutes to six on the evening of January 17th till eight o'clock on the following morning.- Fined 7s. 6d.

James Freer, a boy, was charged with stealing a pot of jam.- P.S. Langdale said on Saturday night he saw prisoner and another boy in the shop of Mr. Smith, grocer, Market-place. From the manner in which they were behaving he watched them and saw prisoner take a pot of jam from a shelf and put it underneath his jacket. He then went into the shop, and asked prisoner what he had got; he said he had nothing, but witness found the pot of jam under his coat. The other boy ran away.- John William Mills, shopman to Mr. Smith, said the pot of jam produced was Mr. Smith's.- Fourteen days' hard labour.