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Purcoriotts Depravity.—An urchin, named John Creed, aged twelve years, but an old offender, was charged with stealing four pairs of shoes from the shop-door of Mr. Bark’s boot and shoe warehouse, High-street, Shad well.Mr. Gravenor, a hatter in the same street, saw the prisoner and a younger boy near the shop, and watched them. While the prisoner stood before his companion the latter unfastened four pair of new shoes, which he handed to Creed, who put them in his pinafore. They were going away when Mr. Gravenor stopped both, but was only enabled to retain the prisoner, who dropped the shoes, and declared it was his first offence, and he would not do the like again.The prosecutor’s shopman, anil the witnesses, said that although repeated detections and convictions of juvenile offenders had taken place, robberies by children were still very frequent, and no property was secure from their depredations.Thu prisoner made no defence, and the magistrate committed him for trial, remarking that, in the event of a conviction, he would he sent to the prison-ship established for the reformation of juvenile convicts.T .v s. n.Sr v a i i Yf»»:f«»rdriv Wm. Rrmrn and (1 ear a e
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London Shipping Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Apr 08, 1836
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