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Old Bailey Online ROBERT HEFFER. JOHN LEWIS. Theft; theft from a specified place, Theft; theft from a specified place. 17th August 1846. Text type Trial account Defendants ROBERT HEFFER, JOHN LEWIS Offences Theft > Theft from place, Theft > Theft from place Session Date 17th August 1846 Reference Number t18460817-1723 Verdicts Guilty > With recommendation Punishments Transportation 1723. ROBERT HEFFER was indicted for breaking and entering the warehouse of Francis Marcus Beresford, at St. John, Southwark, and stealing 25 hides, value 22l. 10s., his property; and JOHN LEWIS for inciting him to commit the said felony, and also feloniously receiving the said goods, knowing them to have been stolen. John Molesworth Thomas, cabinet-maker; James Jenkinson, of York-place, Kent-road, leather-dresser; Joseph Fisher, glove-manufacturer, King-street, Bermondsey; William Jordan, leather-dresser, of West-street; and John Slow, constable, of Bermondsey, gave Heffer a good character.) (James Murrel, glover, of Wild's-rents, Long-lane; Thomas James Scates, tailor, of the Borough; Henry Rodgers, lighterman, of Russell-street, Bermondsey; William Watson, carman, of Long-lane; James Cole, pump and engine-maker; and William Ax ton, of Russell-street, Bermondsey, gate Lewis a good character.) HEFFER LEWIS GUILTY .—Recommended to mercy by the Jury, on account of their previous characters. Transported for Ten Years.