QSR1849/3/5/18-19/c

Statement of the accused - Thomas Newman & John Williams, alias James Webb, accused of passing counterfeit coins.

31 May 1849

From: 1849 To: 1849

Thomas Newman: stated he did not know that Williams had the half crowns until the came into Cranfield. Williams asked him if he wanted a beer and gave him half a crown to buy it. It was unknowing to him that they were bad or had not been found and it was dark when he gave them to him. John Williams: he found them and when paying nobody objected to them. He found them in Leighton in a privy. He did not know Newman before that day and gave him some, so as to change them.

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Williams, John,
Newman, Thomas

passing counterfeit coin, CRANFIELD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Marston Moretaine Sugar Loaf, Cranfield Leathern Bottle