A Batch of Orchard Looters at Llandough
… four … boys … appeared in answer to the charge of breaking into the orchard of Great House Farm, on Sunday morning, and [taking] therefrom a number of apples, the property of John Williams … P.C. Herbert Evans said … with the assistance of Mr John Williams, junior, caught three of the offenders … The boys got into the orchard over the hedge from the railway … John Williams, junior, corroborated the evidence of the constable, and added that about half the apples in his father’s orchard had been [taken].
Source
Barry Dock News, 16 August 1889, p.2. Legal Wiki EV-0279.
Welsh Newspapers Online · EV-0279
Archive note: Before the Penarth magistrates (Messrs J. S. Corbett and V. Trayes); each boy was fined 10s and costs. Library OCR; gaps marked ….
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