Lead theft (1850)

Post date: Mar 10, 2012 9:8:42 PM

Extract from Kentish Gazette of 26 March 1850 re Lent Assizes held at Maidstone

George Orpin [?], 27, carpenter, pleaded guilty to stealing, on the 15th March, one packet of black lead, the property of Robert Inde at Wateringbury.-— Fourteen days' hard labor.