Reference
QSR1820/267
Title
Examination of Robert Gostelow of Dunstable, labourer.
Date free text
28 November 1820
Production date
From: 1820 To: 1820
Scope and Content
"That Richard Maddox & James Whitbread were in the street together (he belives before the Fair Day (which was on Nov 13) - they met with himself & Maddox said to Whitbread that he (Whitbread) had no shirt to wear that he would see to get him one - going up West End they turned up Butt's Lane & saw some linen hanging to dry in a field - He Gostelow was to watch and to give alarm if he saw anybody coming - Maddox went into the field where the linen was and Whitbread stood in the lane near the hedge where the linen was - He did not see Maddox take the linen but In a very little time both Maddox & Whitbread came back to him Maddox had some linen things tucked up in front of him - Maddox as they walked along hid the things under his smock frock - They went together to a ditch at a some distance - when Maddox pulled out the things from under his frock - viz two shifts, one shirt and a white handkerchief - Witness lent Maddox his knife with which he cut off the frill of the shirt and also cut out the mark on the flap and then gave the shirt to Whitbread - Maddox kept the shifts and he does not know what became of the handkerchief. - They told him to go away, and he soon afterwards saw Matthew Neal with Maddox and Whitbread. Maddox said it would not do to let the letters remain in, so he cut them out, & buried the frill & the piece he cut out where the letters were, in the bank of the dtich or in the ditch."
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