William Calverley Bateman

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Maureen Withey on 23rd November 2019

Stealing Leather. William Calverley Bateman, (33, shoemaker) was charged with stealing one cwt. of leather, value £7.12s. 4d. the property of Thomas Hall, at at Redmile, on the 8th Dec. last. Mr. Merewether prosecuted ; Mr. Palmer defended prisoner. Mr. Merewether, after stating the case, called Benjamin Pick, shoemaker of Stathern, who stated that on the 8th Dec. he went to Grantham and bought 1 cwt. of leather, value £7 12s. Id. The piece of leather produced was part of that which he bought. He knew it the marks. —Cross- Bought the piece produced just as it was, and had not cut it since. Re-examined: Had no doubt that the leather produced was the same he bought. ——Mr. E. Martin, currier of Grantham deposed to selling the last witness a quantity of leather. The leather produced was the same he had curried. He saw it on the Monday morning.—Cross-examined: Sold the leather in one roll to Pick. Henry Manderfield, apprentice to Mr. Martin, spoke to taking a quantity leather to the Strathern carrier. Knew one of the pieces produced by the sample mark.—A boy named Hall, son of the Stathern carrier, said he received the leather from the last witness and placed on the it shafts of the cart. —Thomas Hall, carrier to Stathern said, he tied the bundle of leather on the back of his cart. Saw it safe at 7 o'clock near Woolsthorpe pasture. Missed it at Barkestone village and went back to look for it. He afterwards went and gave information to the police. The rope was cut that held the leather to the cart. Cross-examined : Barkestone was a mile from Plungar. There were two other bundles of leather in the cart.— Delivered a bundle of leather to prisoner's house the same day and told him he had had leather stolen from his cart Re-examined : Did not ask prisoner if he had taken the leather.—P.C. John Taylor said he went with the carrier to prisoner's house at Plungar, between 12 and o'clock on Sunday. Told him he had come to inquire about bundle of leather that had been stolen from Mr. Hall's cart, belonging to Mr. Pick of Stathern. He said he had not the least objection to his searching the house, and asked why he suspected him, and whether he had searched anywhere else. He told him he had been to Mr. Watchorn's. Found some leather in the house which Pick identified. Asked him where he got the leather and he said bought one piece at Grantham and the other at Nottingham. Witness then took the leather away.—Mr. Palmer addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and after careful summing up by by the Chairman, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. previous conviction of prisoner in Feb. 1852 of breaking into a house at Plungar and stealing two cwt. of bacon, was proved, for which he had been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. He had now returned on a ticket-of-leave and had been back four years.—The Chairman sentencing him observed that he was an example of the ill-manner in which the ticket-of-leave system had acted. He had been allowed to return on a ticket-of-leave which was a mark of indulgence to him, and that was the manner in which he had used that indulgence. The sentence of the Court was that he be confined to penal servitude for eight years. Leicestershire Mercury, 5 Jan 1861

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Geoffrey Bateman on 22nd November 2019

William was followed to Freemantle by his wife Mary Ann Bateman (nee Green) and her two children Matthew and Emily onboard the Strathmore arriving May 1864. When William was pardoned in October 1867 the family went to Pinjarra. Sadly Mary Ann died in 1878. William married twice more; Rebecca Chamberlain-White in 1880 and Victoria Janet Davies in 1894. William died in 1898 - a well known and liked citizen.