• Reference
    QSR1820/266
  • Title
    Information of Linford Horn of Dunstable, bricklayer's labourer.
  • Date free text
    27 November 1820
  • Production date
    From: 1820 To: 1820
  • Scope and Content
    "on Sunday night the 19 instant Robert Gostelow of Dunstable aforesaid, laborer, asked him whether he had heard that Mr Dear had lost some things. He (Horn) answered that he had heard it, and asked Gostelow whether he had any of them - Gostelow then told him "that he had none of them but that Richard Maddox had some of them - viz two shifts and that Maddox had given them to a girl but that Maddox afterwards said that he did not give them to a girl, but to Matthew Neal that he Gostelow watched while Richard Maddox took them from a field up Butt's Lane that James Whitbread of Dunstable aforesaid laborer was with Maddox & Gostelow at the time of taking the things that two children happening to be near the spot, Maddox said to him that he would cut their throats if they said anything" Gostelow desired the witness Horn not to say anthing about it. Gostelow also said that Whitbread had a shirt, cut the mark out of the shirt, tore off the frill, and burned the frill. Gostelow also mentioned something about a gown and a handkerchief, but the des not recollect what it was."
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