Thursday Flashback

The paddle steamer Cambria returns to port loaded with visitors possibly from a trip down to Flamborough Head.

The passenger vessel was operated by the Chester and Holyhead Railway from 1848 to 1859 and the London and North Western Railway grocer, who has a garden at Donner’s allotments, Scalby Road, had accidentally left the padlock and keys.

PC Ward said he found these on the youth, who said they belonged to his father, and he had had them all the time he had been in the Army, he brought them from Manchester.

Prisoner, in the box, alleged that he saw two men coming from the gardens and he found the keys.

The chief constable said the youth had told him so many lies he (the chief ) would not advise him to tell any more.

The mayor: If you found these keys why did you tell the constable they belonged to your father?

The youth: Well, there were so many against me.

The mayor: There was no one against you at all.

The youth: There were so many, they were all asking questions. I can only tackle from 1859 to 1861.

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He added that he had not been insulted before.

In the remaining charge the owner Wilson, a constable in the North Riding Force, had left the key after locking his greenhouse at his garden, Osborne Park, Scalby Road, in the lock as another man was going to use the greenhouse to put tools in.

PC Ward said the youth had stated that he found the key.

The youth repeated this to the bench.

The chief constable said that since being an absentee he had been sleeping out, in sheds and so on.

His captain said the youth joined up on June 10th, and they were trying to get his discharge as he was of no use to the army.

He had been in some trouble for being absent before, but nothing very serious.

He had been absent several times. The youth was a carter in civil life, and had a mother and a step-father.

The magistrates, on the charges of stealing, sent the youth to prison for 14 days on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.

At the end of that time he would be handed over to the military as a deserter.