| Description | Bill of indictment of John Dobson for stealing one rip saw, the property of John Bateson
Includes indictment of Dobson for receiving the stolen goods
Offences committed on 7 February 1885
Dobson had previously been convicted of felony at the Petty Sessions for York held on 14 November 1877
Endorsed with names of witnesses and "true bill"
With certificate of conviction at York on 14 November 1877 of John Dobson alias John McDolan aged 11 years for stealing 1s 1/2d in money, the property of William Henry McShane, at the township of Clifton on 12 November 1877. Dobson/McDolan was sentenced to hard labour at the Castle of York for 21 days and then, as he is a Roman Catholic, to five years at the Roman Catholic Reformatory School at Market Weighton. Certificate dated 2 April 1885 |