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Deposition of Joseph Morris of Luton, rag merchant - Jeremiah Fensom charged with stealing lead

20 December 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

Last Thursday or Friday week Fensom came to his house and asked if he was going up to Woodside with a cart as he had some lead. When he said no, Fensom said he would pay a shilling if somebody would bring it. On Saturday 8 December he came to Morris's house with a quantity of lead in a sack. Fensom said there was a hundred and a quarter - Morris weighed it. He wanted £4 for the hundred. He claimed to have bought it at Hempsted [? Hemel Hempstead] - he said he believed it came from Midgewater. Morris offered him 5 farthings a pound. Fensom said he would call again but did not. On Monday night Morris went to Wright the police man's house but he was out so he told his wife. He saw Wright on Tuesday and said the lead was at his house. Last Monday he was at St Albans and saw Fensom with the St Albans police man and knew him to be the man who had brought the lead to his house.

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Fensom, Jeremiah,
Morris, Joseph

stealing, lead, rag merchant, LUTON, Luton Woodside, St Albans