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Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser Wednesday 21 Oct 1874
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SOMERSET QUARTER SESSIONS. - The Michaelmas sessions commenced at Wells on Tuesday. The chief matter on the agenda paper for the day's business was Mr. H. W. HOSKINS's notice of motion that the court should take into consideration the expediency of forming a Mendicity Society for Somerset. The calendar contains names of the following 31 prisoners, whose trials (and the appeals, if any) will be proceeded with to-day:- William STONE, false pretences at Wellington; George WATTS, felony at Wellington; William COLES (on bail), duck-stealing at Crewkerne; Lavinia GOODMAN, shoplifting at Taunton; Thomas Henry CHANTER?, false pretences at Wiveliscombe; James DAVIS, cattle-stealing at North Curry; Joseph BISHOP, attempted rape at Lopen; John EDWARDS (on bail), felony at Frome; Mary WOODEHOUSE, felony at Chewton Mendip; George MAGGS, felony at Midsomer Norton; Matilda AYRES, felony at Witham Friary; Johnathan HUMPHREYS, shop-lifting at Bruton; John COLLIER, Henry COLLIER, Mary Ann COLLIER, and Julia COLLIER, assaulting a constable at Paulton; John HOBBS, felony from the person at Weston-super-Mare; Luke CANNON, felony at Wincanton; Izett WHITE (on bail), receiving at Wincanton; Jessie PRICE?, attempted felony at Chew Magna; James CROSBY (on bail), false pretences at Weston-super-Mare; George BRIDGE, grievously wounding at Farmborough; Sansom BOND, felony at Ansford; John WELLS, robbery at Radstock; William HUISH, felony at Wincanton; John Thomas TITMAN, stealing a promissory note at Glastonbury; Samuel TRIPP (on bail), felonies at Nempnett and Compton Martin; Henry CARTER and William JONES, watch-stealing at Bedminster; Clara Mary ENGLISH, false pretences at Shepton Mallet; William FRY, false pretences at Kewstoke.