Kentish Independent, 09 September 1865.
BURGLARY AT PLUMSTEAD.
John Williams, 28, landlord of the "Alma," beer shop, Mulgrave Place,
Woolwich, was charged with being concerned with two others, named
Sergeant and Perks, in burglariously entering the dwelling house of
William Samuel Jocelyn, at Plumstead and stealing property to the value
of £5.
Prosecutor said he was a grocer living at 1 Plumstead Terrace. On the
Wednesday previous he discovered that his cellar bad been entered, and a
box containing 40lbs of butter, a firkin of butter and 1/4 cwt of soap
stolen. The outside flap had been broken open, and on the top someone
had written in chalk "To let."
John Brompton, a milkman in the employ of Mr Standing, said that on
Wednesday the prisoner employed him to bring a box, and a basket, to his
house, from the residence of a young man named Sergeant, at Plumstead
Village, and he did so, receiving them from Sergeant, and taking them to
his master‘s yard, from whence they were afterwards taken during his
absence.
Detective officer Margetson said that he had ascertained that there were
three persons concerned in the robbery, of whom no doubt Sargeant and
Perks were two. Another man named Ammond, had also no doubt something to
do with it, but he had absconded. The prisoner now before the court was
charged as the supposed receiver, and when apprehended he at first
denied knowing the other men, afterwards saying that they were at his
beerhouse on the night before and after the robbery.
The prisoner said he had been in the carriers business, and was still
occasionally engaged in the same line. Sergeant asked him to move some
boxes, and he entrusted the job to Mr. Standing, never having seen the
property himself.
Margetson said the prisoner had admitted knowing the men to be thieves.
The prisoner said this was true, and he always treated them as such.
Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner, taking two sureties in £25 for his
appearance next Tuesday.
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