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Deposition of Samuel Lawford of Luton, carpenter - George Mead, James Lawrence, Reuben Warner and Isaac Burgess, charged with stealing fowls at Luton from Elizabeth Gregory

22 November 1839

From: 1839 To: 1840

He lives in a yard called Lawford Yard in Church Street, Luton. Robert Milemore and widow Warner mother of Reuben Warner live in the same yard. George Mead keeps company with a young woman who lived at Milemore's. On Friday morning he saw a strange fowl in the yard, which floew over the pales in to Mr Eyles' yard.On Tuesday morning 12 November he saw Mead and Lawrence at Robert Milemore's house between 8am and 9am, and saw them again a little after 6pm. They tried the door of Robert Milemore's house which was locked. They knocked several times before they were let in, and the door was then locked again. On the Wednesday morning he found the head of 4 fowls and some legs in his barn which is near Milemore's premises. The barn is locked - they may have been put through the holes in the barn. This mornign a little before 8am he saw 3 fowls against his barn in the yard. He sent to Mrs Gregory to come and look at them and fetched Booth the constable. One of the fowls now produced is the fowl he saw fly over the pales, and the other 3 are the ones fetched from his yard that morning.

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Mead, George,
Lawrence, James,
Warner, Reuben,
Burgess, Isaac,
Gregory, Elizabeth,
Lawford, Samuel,
Milemore, Robert,
Eyles

LUTON, Luton Church Street, stealing, fowls, carpenter