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Hi
I thought maybe you would like to see this article about my gt.gt uncle.
"A PICKPOCKET" - Samuel Garland of Maldon was charged with picking the pocket of a Mr Chas Blanks of Chelmsford at Galleywood Common Races on the 21st ult (1850) was brought up for final sentence. It was proved that when the prosecutor entered one of the refreshment booths upon the course the prisoner was seen to extract a handkerchief from his pocket, which was subequently found in his possession. He was committed for trial but the Bench expressed a Willingness to admit him to bail in £40 and two sureties of £20 each. Not really funny.
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yappie

All that for pinching... a hanky?

Fledge wrote:All that for pinching... a hanky?

Bail at £40? In 1850, £40 would have the same spending worth of 2005's £2,340; from http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/curr ... t0.asp#mid

A total commitment of around £4,700! That was a very snotty bail remand! Although a couple of decades earlier he could have ended up in Australia.

Fledge & Dickiesam - Yes it was a lot but I am wondering if it was a pure silk hanky embroidered in gold He was only a poor seaman couldn't have earned much because he joined the Royal Navy in 1854 and that is the last I can find of him. Maybe he found himself a nice desert island away from the temptation of picking pockets
yappie

I was wondering how old he would have been, him being a seaman clarified the point, how on earth did they expect somebody to be able to come up with such an amount

That was a very snotty bail remand!

One of my lot was imprisoned a while back for stealing a loaf. Two hundred years earlier they could have faced a gibbet.

I suppose a gentleman's hankerchief was a saleable commodity in those days.

Hi MaryA
He was born in 1824 so he would have been 26 in 1850. He married in 1849 and then joined the RN in 1954. His Wife remarried in 1860 so he was either lost at sea or found that desert island

Hi Fledge
Either the Judge was very harsh or the journalist made a mistake After all it was just a hanky (I wonder if it was unused )

yappie

yappie wrote:I wonder if it was unused )

yappie

I was trying to avoid thinking about that.

Fledge