Newspaper Extract
Horse Stealing at Kimberworth
18th March, 1843At Yorkshire Assizes, Henry Turner (31) was charged with having, on the 30th of August last, at Kimberworth, feloniously stolen a mare, the property of John Mangham.
Mr. Walker and Mr. Aspinall were for the prosecution; the prisoner conducted his own case.
The prosecutor resides at Thorpe, near Rotherham; the prisoner lives at Doncaster.
On the 29th of August the mare was put into the prosecutor's field, and on the following morning at 4 o'clock she was missed. On the afternoon of the 29th the prisoner was seen riding an ass in the direction of the prosecutor's field, and that animal was afterwards found turned loose in a field adjacent.
Information was given to the police, and the mare was found in the prisoner's stable.
The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses at great length, and in a very impertinent manner, so much so that the judge had several times to call him to order. Nothing material was elicited by him.
In his defence, he said he sold his ass to a pot-man on that day for 18s.0d. at Hickleton, and that he bought the mare near Bolton, off a stranger, named John Smith, for six sovereigns, and got sixpence returned. He protested his innocence with great vehemence.
Verdict
Guilty: to be transported for fifteen years.
