QSR1820/269

Information of Barnard Gleed of Worship Street Office, Shoreditch, London.

28 November 1820

From: 1820 To: 1820

"Having received information that the shirt, belonging to Mr Dear, which had been stolen was concepted in the house of Mr Fassey of Market Street, Ragman, he went to the house of Fassey this morning (Tuesday Nov 28) and enquired for Mr Fassey of a little girl at the house, who told him that her father was gone to London - the girl called Mrs Whitbread (the mother of the prisoner Whitbread & who lodges in the house of Fassey) down stairs - who immediately said "you are the gentleman, who are come for the shrit" - she took him upstairs, opened a box and said, This is the shirt, which my son brought home" - at the same time giving him the shirt, which he now produced. Robert Dear upon oath, saith that the shirt produced by Mr Barnard Gleed is the very shirt that was stolen from him... Susannah Atwood, upon oath, saith that the shirt produced by Mr Barnard Gleed, was the very shirt, which James Whitbread had at her house, though it appears that a bit of cloth had been sewed over the round hole at the flap & taken off again and also that the boson of the shirt had been cut apparently with a pair of scissors."

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Whitbread, James,
Gleed, Barnard