| Description | Bill of indictment of Richard Bowes late of the House of Correction at Northallerton labourer for obtaining by false pretences one silk handkerchief value 5s and five yards of cotton cord value £1, the property of George Chapman. Bowes pretended that he had been sent for the goods by John Bowes of the township of Scampston in the East Riding, a customer of Chapman's
Offence committed at the parish of St Leonard in New Malton on 20 August 1812
Endorsed with names of witnesses and "a true bill found" |