The Yeovil Cheese Robbery and Other Cases
Two cheeses valued at five shillings were stolen from Jane Corry at the Yeovil Market under the Town Hall on High Street during the evening of 13 January 1854, and three teenagers went to gaol. The three, sixteen years-old John Collins, George Vincent, 15, and William Sylvester, aged 16, appeared at the Somerset Quarter Sessions during the following March charged with stealing two cheeses the property of Jane Corry. The said Jane told the court that she had purchased 68…