The Northampton Mercury - Saturday July 5th 1879

Report of the Quarter Sessions

PLEADED GUILTY

JOHN ROULLIER (26), private in the 48th Regiment, to stealing a silver watch and chain, value £6-10s, the property of John Campbell, in a dwelling-house, at the parish of St. Sepulchre, on the 16th June.  The Recorder, in sentencing the prisoner to Six Months Hard Labour, remarked that this was the first time since he had sat on this bench that he had a soldier before him on a charge of theft.

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