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 Saturday 28 January 1882
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire


Edward Smith, Robert Smith, and Jas. Booth, gipsies, were charged with encamping in Laughton on Monday night. Defendants made fires by the side of the highway between Mr. Smith's ...



Friday 14 May 1880
 Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire

 Mary Ana Smith, a gipsy, was finedj 2s. 6d. and 17s. costs, for allowing two horses to stray on the ...



 Saturday 11 December 1880
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

 Alleged Theft —Isaiah Smith and Divers Smith, pedlars, both of Leicester, were charged with stealing 12 6., from George Mutton, of Market Harborough, on the 2nd ...


 Friday 19 January 1877
  Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE
... the child, Elizabeth Bellingham, said she was a single woman, and lived with a gipsy named Israel Smith. They lived in a tent, and had no fixed abode. Elvina Smith took the child to Dr. Lakin, Leicester, on Tuesday and Wednesday last. said it was not to ...

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    Saturday 05 June 1875
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

COUNTY PUBLIC OFFICE
... John Smith, a man and a boy, were charged with sleeping-out —  the prisoners were lying under a stack at Belgrade. The man was asleep; and both were covered with straw. Riley had three half-pence in his possession, but Smith was ...

 

Friday 16 October 1874
  Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire

MARKET HARBOROUGH
  Supt. Holioway charged Israel Smith and Robert Smith, two gypsies, with being drunk and riotous on the highway Market Harborough, on September 19th.—P.C. Aspell said, he was sent

 


Saturday 06 January 1872
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

CRIMINAL BUSINESS
  STEALING RAZORS. Benjamin Clayton alias James Clayton, 49, razor grinder, pleaded guilty to stealing five razors, value 5s.,



 

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Friday 05 January 1872
  Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire
 
TRIALS OF PRISONERS.—TUESDAY
 Benjamin  Clayton alias James Clayton, 49, razor grinder (gipsy), was indicted for stealing five razors, value 5s, the property of George Callis, at Markfield ...

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 Saturday 08 July 1871
 Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire


 Melton.— Petty Sessions, July 4.—(Before W. A. Pochin and T. W. Claggett, Esqrs.)— John Smith, chair mender, Wymondham, Israel Smith, fiddler, no residence, and Bob Holland, chair maker, of Collingham, Notts., were charged by P.C. Bott ...
 


Friday 08 September 1871
  Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire


Joseph Smith, 49, chair bottomer, and Israel Smith, chair bottomer, no residence, were charged with stealing from a field, at Barkstone, on the night of or ...

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 Saturday 19 March 1864
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

The Ringstead Murder. — The expectation that the trial of Weekley Ball for the murder of Lydia Atley would take place at the Assizes has been disappointed Ball is discharged, without having had the charge against him investigated, even by the grand jury. Mr. Serjeant Tozer, on the part of the prosecution, stated that there were certain defects in the evidence which rendered it desirable that no bill Should be presented to the jurry. Within a short time an addition had been made to the evidence, and he therefore thought the case could not now be carefully investigated. A few minutes later the learned Sergeant added that important additions had been lately made to the evidence and he was instructed that there were some more additional facts which had not been fully investigated. Without, of course, imputing to the prosecution the intention in any degree to mislead the public, we cannot help thinking that this statement may tend to induce a belief that the case against Ball has been strengthened since his committal by the-magistrates by the discovery of facts of a serious character. We may, we think, take upon ourselves to say that this would be an erroneous conclusion, shown to be so by the very course adopted by the prosecution. If there were within a grasp important facts which only required arrangement  and investigation, the prisoner would, of course, have made his detention more necessary than before, and this might have been pursued by the grand jury. That there may be some additional evidence calculated to strengthen the belief that the disappearance of Lydia Atley could not have been  accomplished by herself un- assisted, and that she was therefore, probably murdered, is possible enough.But the main part of the additional evidence is certainly in the opposite direction. On Friday week a second skeleton was found lying foot to foot with the first — the skeleton of an adult man of six foot stature. On Monday two others were discovered in the immediate  vicinity, a little nearer to Mr. Peach's lodge; and other traces of human remains are talked of. The truth, in fact, has oozed out that Ringstead open-field was greatly frequented by gypsies, who ordinarily buried their dead there. The practice was carried out to such an extent that fifty years ago legal steps were taken to check. it is of course obvious enough that these discoveries are nearly fatal to that of the skeleton first found with the body of Lydia Atley. It may be assumed that the murderer, whoever he was, chose the open-field for the burial of the body, precisely because it was known to be a kind of gipsy cemetery, and that therefore the disturbance of the ground would be less likely to attract notice ; but it is to be remembered that a vigilant search was made by the police at the time, and the fact that the open- field was popularly known to be a gipsies' burial ground would almost inevitably lead to the search in that direction.

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  Saturday 17 January 1863
 Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire


  Absalom Smith and Divers Smith, gypsies, of Melton Mowbray, were charged with trespassing in search of conies, at the parish of Leesthorpe. — Absalom was fined £1, and costs 8s. ; and Divers was fined 10s., and 8s. costs



Friday 16 January 1863
  Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire

DISTRICT NEWS
  Absolam and Divers Smith, gipsies, charged by P.C. Ball with encamping and making a fire by the highway, in the parish of Owston. Fined 2s, mid costs 5s. Darnel Cox, labourer, and Absolam and Divers Smith gipsies, were charged by Thomas Wild ...



Saturday 16 November 1861
  Leicester Chronicle
 Leicestershire

 MELTON MOWBRAY AND ITS NEIGHBOUBHOOD. Police Intelligence.—(Before H. C. Bingham, Esq.)— John Smith and Hawthorn Smith, gipsies, were charged by P.C. John Sills with sleeping in an out- house belonging to Mr. Wm. Chandler, farmer, Kirby Bellars

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Saturday 10 November 1860
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

 Abraham Clayton, late of Leiceater. but now travelling with a gang of gipsies was charged with having on the 28th of March last unlawfully trespassed in search and pursuit of game



Saturday 15 October 1859
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

 Levi Smith and Peter Smith, two travelling gypsies, Were bronght up by warrant, charging them, with having created a disturbsnoe on the 6th instsnt. at Wymeswold, whereby James Clayton. another gypsy, was seriously hurt and remained in a dangerouse state. From the evidence it appeared that the defendant belonged to a regular gypsy band, who had encamped near to Wymeswold. There had been some dispute amongst them in referenoe to some dogs, and even when in the village itself they oould not control the ill feeling which had sprung up between them. A party of six or eight of them went to the Bull's Head, and had some drink together, but speedily one of the parish con- stables was fetched to quell a disturbance amongst them. The constable (J. Colltngton) wished them to be quiet, and they promised to be so; but two houres afterwards he was called upon a second time to interfere. Again he urged them to be of good behaviour, and requested them to leave the village, which they promised to do, and the constsble saw them out of the town, but they speedily returned and continued the disturbance. They pulled their shirts off, and walked about the town streets without them. During the affray one of the men was wounded, and fainted away and required immediate medical assistance. The whole neighbourhood was in an uproar. Defendants were ordered for sureties to keep the peace for three months and themselves to be bound in £10 each. The other men concerned in the matter have not yet been apprehended.

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Saturday 06 February 1858
 Leicester Guardian
  Leicestershire


—Charles and Plato Smith, hawkers, Willoughby, Notts., were charged by Mr. Harvey, grocer, Leicester, with having, stolen a quantity of hay from ...


 
Saturday 20 March 1858
 Leicestershire Mercury
  Leicestershire

— Plato Smith, a gipsy, pleaded guilty to having encamped on the highway, and was fined ls. and costs

 

Saturday 10 October 1857
  Leicester Guardian
  Leicestershire

  Woodbine Smith, 84, his wife, 85, with their grandaughter and her husband (gipsies) were brought up for sleeping in a hovel on the Lawton road. They were dismissed with a ...
 
 

 Friday 11 January 1856
  Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire

Plato Smith, a gipsy, pleaded guilty to having encamped on the highway, and was fined ls. and costs




Saturday 11 August 1855
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

 
Lutterworth Petty Sessions, Augnst 6.  James alias Benjamin Clayton and Tobias Clayton, grinders, were charged by Supt. Deakins with having encamped within fifty yards of the highway, between ...


Saturday 21 October 1854
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire


 Keythorpe Hall, last week, Mary Smith, a gipsy, was taken before Lord Berners by P.C. Hawksworth, and was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour, for camping on the side of the highway in the parish of Markfield. — Plato Smith, a gipsy, was at the same time ...




Saturday 14 May 1853
  Leicestershire Mercury
  Leicestershire

Market Harborugh
  P. C. Plant charged Saml. Smith, a gipsy, with making a fire near the highway Mowsley, on April 24. Defendant was found lying near the fire with his son Plato. (There is a warrant out against Plato as he did not appear to-day.) Defendant was ...
 

 
Saturday 23 November 1850
 Leicestershire Mercury
  Leicestershire


Plato Smith was charged with stealing a donkey, the property of William Read, of Markfield, on Sunday, the 10th instant. It seemed that the donkey was taken out of Read's stable by Phinial Smith, and he gave it up to Plato, and threatened ...

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Saturday 26 May 1849
 Leicestershire Mercury
  Leicestershire

 Melton Mowbray
  Hawthorn Smith and John East were charged by Roberl Benskin with camping in the parish of Burton Lazars, or Sunday morning last, and ...

   

Saturday 09 January 1847
  Leicestershire Mercury
  Leicestershire


LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY SESSIONS
  where found in a gipsies' camp, and in it Clayton and Bennett together in bed. On searching the camp they found half the flesh that was taken away, and the police apprehended Clayton. The next day the police searched Ann Bennett's ...

 
Friday 20 June 1845
 Leicester Journal
  Leicestershire


Ann Holland, Margaret Bennett, Eunice Hodgking, Emma Dinah Clayton, Elizabeth Clayton, and Louisa Clayton, gipsies, were charged on the information of Mr. Skeviiiglon, farmer, with encamping by tbe side of the highway ...



 Saturday 18 October 1845
 Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

MICHAELMAS.COUNTY SESSIONS
 :— On the 20th of July last, the appellant, who is a widower, encamped together with his relations Plato Smith and Violet (Plato's wife), Dives Smith and his wife, and a younger female of the same name, at Knossington, on the public road between Owston ...


 
Saturday 06 January 1844
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

BOROUGH EPIPHANY SESSIONS
  Thomas Smith (17: neither read nor write) pleaded guilty to stealing a brass rule and other articles, the property of J . A. Bosworth : — three months' hard labour. David Smith (42 : neither read nor write) — a gipsy- ...



Saturday 16 December 1843
  Leicester Chronicle
  Leicestershire

  David Smith, a gipsy, wa. charged as follows: — John Worsdell, a miller and one of the Belgrave parish constables, deposed that on Friday evening the 8th inst., he was called to apprehend a person named Angelo Smith (also a gipsy), the nephew ...