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The Western Gazette Saturday 07 May 1864
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NORTH PETHERTON.
THE HORSE-STEALING GIPSIES. - At the recent Sessions held at Aylesbury for the county of Buckingham Henry DELL and his two sons William and Elias, were convicted and sentenced to three years penal servitude, and a young man who also gave the name of DELL at the same time was convicted and sentenced to twelve month's hard labour, for horse stealing. It will be remembered that the prisoners William and Elias DELL were apprehended at North Petherton by superintendent JEFFS, after a very hard struggle, but that Elias DELL, after severely maltreating a constable, effected an escape. Two or three days afterwards he was found in Walthamstow, in Essex, having walked between fifty and sixty miles per day. Henry DELL and two females, it will also be remembered, were apprehended in the parish of Pitminster, a few days after the occurrence at North Petherton, when they resisted and violently assaulted the police and were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. It is a singular circumstance that the father and his two sons were apprehended on the same spot in the parish of Pitminster on some charge five years ago.