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Depositions - James Dalley and James Hare, in case of George Maddams

19 March 1839

From: 1839 To: 1839

James Dalley - had been employed by Mr Rogers in February to watch his premises. He found the coal cellar window unfastened on the Monday after the second robbery. He found a bit of stick he had put in himself on the previous Thursday lying on a bench in the cellar near the window. He could not have got out of the cellar window without dirtying himself with the coals. He did not notice that the coals had been disturbed. James Hare - carter to Messrs Cobby and Phillips of Ampthill. Recalls Monday 18 February which was a very snowy morning. He set off with his waggon from the Kings Arms Yard at 4am, going to Fenny Stratford through Steppingley. Maddams caught him on the road just through Steppingley at about 5am. He knew him as Mr Rogers' apprentice. Maddams asked him to take his two parcels on the wagon - one was a carpet bag and the other was in a cloth. Maddams was wearing slippers made of carpet of something similar with fur round them, had some black marks on his face, but he may have got them in the waggon as he covered himself up in the waggon with a sack which was dirty with coal. Hare commented on his shoes as unsuitable, and Maddams said he was wearing them for "easement" as he had been on a long journey the day before. Maddams got out of the waggon at Penfold Pond and went on the road toward Heath and Reach.

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Maddams, George,
Rogers, John,
Dalley, James,
Hare, James

AMPTHILL, STEPPINGLEY, heath and reach, Fenny Stratford, carter, road transport