Hi Everyone, Bohdan has sent me another snippet from the Bradford Observer. It refers to W. Barraclough, butcher of Wibsey. Thanks Bohdan Best Wishes Kim 1863 June 25th Page 5 Column 3 ROBBERY AT A PUBLIC-HOUSE.- On Friday, at the Borough Court (before Wm. Dewhirst, Esq. and Mr. Alderman Wright), two young women, named Mary Allen and Catherine Mortimer, and a young man, named Martin Coldwell, were charged, the two former with stealing a pocket book containing five or six sovereigns and a bill of exchange for £95, and a silk handkerchief, the property of Mr. W. Barraclough, butcher, of Wibsey: and the male prisoner with feloniously receiving some of the property. Mr. Hutchinson appeared for the prosecution. On Wednesday evening, the prosecutor went to the Oddfellows’ Hall, in Thornton Road. He had something to drink, and met with the female prisoners, whom he treated with a few glasses of ale. He subsequently fell asleep, and when he awoke, in an hour and a half after, he found that he had been robbed of the pocket book, containing a bill of exchange for £95 and a silk handkerchief. He gave information of the robbery at the police station, and described the prisoners. P.C. Burnet found the prisoners Mortimer and Coldwell at a common lodging-house in Longlands Street, and the other, Allen, at another. He found the silk-handkerchief and a sovereign, one shilling, and eightpence halfpenny upon the male prisoner. He also observed the male prisoner go upstairs, and throw some money from him. Mortimer was subsequently asked to stand up, and money dropped from her clothes. Mortimer declined to say where she had got the money, and the male prisoner said he had worked for it. The two female prisoners had taken the bill of exchange to Mrs. Sarah Haigh, of the Old George and Dragon beerhouse, in Westgate, and requested her to take care of it till next day. The prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions.