Robert Vale

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Tony Beale on 17th January 2021

Old Bailey online 336. ROBERT VALE was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Rice , about the hour of two in the afternoon of the 28th of March , no person in the same dwelling-house then being, and stealing therein, one coat, value 1l. two waistcoats, value 10s. one pair of breeches, value 15s. one handkerchief, value 2s. two shirts, value 10s. one brooch, value 5s. one neck-kerchief, value 1s. three pairs of stockings, value 1s. forty shillings in monies numbered, and one 1l. bank note , the property of said John Rice. JOHN RICE . This happened on the 28th of March. I went out at about nine o'clock in the morning, and came home between ten and eleven at night; I have no family; nobody but myself; I live over the stables; I have a servant, who does my work over the stables; but she does not live there; I am quite a single man . I left every thing secure. When I came home, the first thing I discovered was the door open; I went up stairs, and discovered the door of the hay loft open, which goes into the mews; they had come in through the cieling When I opened the dwelling room door, the cieling there, was broken. I discovered some clothes were gone, a coat, two waistcoats, a pair of small clothes, a handkerchief, and two shirts, a gold brooch, upwards of two pounds in silver, and a one-pound bank note; there is a door which opens from that room to another room, which door had been locked; but it was broken open with a poker and tongs. I learned from my man who helps me to clean my horses, that a man had slept in a coach house in the mews all night, and I asked him if he would come with me, and he did. We went to the man who owned the coach-house, and I told him what had See originalClick to see original happened, and he said, we were extremely welcome to search his place. I asked my man if he had seen the prisoner at the bar that day; I had seen him several times before; he had been a regular servant with a man in the mews for about a month. In consequence of questions I asked, I found the prisoner had absconded. We did not see nor hear any thing of him for about a week; at last, I gained information of him, and we went down very early last Sunday morning, and found him at his father's house; his father lives at the other side of Hockland, by a place called Birchinghall. When I got there, we found my coats in his father's house; two waistcoats on his person, a pair of small clothes on his person, a shirt, a handkerchief, and a pair of boots, all on him. Mr. Lee found the brooch in his pocket; but no note, no money, nor silver. Prisoner's Defence. I have been left with the key of his stable several times. Rice. He could go out of the hay loft over my room. GUILTY - DEATH , aged 16. [Recommended to mercy on account of his youth.] First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder. New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827. On list of prisoners disembarked from the ship Morley and sent to Liverpool for distribution. 18/4/1817. Assigned to Dr Townsend along with James Winter same ship New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870 for Robert Vale Conditional received 1/2/1845