| Description | Bill of indictment of Nicholas Patterson weigh clerk employed by Stevenson Jaques and Company ironmasters of the town of Middlesbrough and whose job was to record the number of tons of ironstone tipped and filled by the labourers employed by the Company, for obtaining £4 3s 3d from Thomas Layton pay clerk employed by the same Company by falsely pretending to have given a true account of the weight of ironstone tipped and filled during the fortnight ending on 3 January 1874. He claimed that William Turner Robinson a labourer employed by the Company had filled 372 [or 327] tons of ironstone in the fortnight ending on 3 January 1874 rather than the 77 tons which he had in fact filled
Offences committed on 9 January 1874
Patterson had previously been convicted of felony at the Assizes for county Durham on 9 July 1866
Endorsed with names of witnesses and "true bill"
With certificate of conviction at the Assizes and General Gaol Delivery for the County Palatinate of Durham and Sadberge held at Durham on 9 July 1866 of Nicholas Patterson for twice obtaining a forged acquittance and receipt for money on 25 November 1865. Patterson was sentenced to hard labour at the House of Correction at Durham for nine calendar months. Certificate dated 1 July 1874
With draft indictment |