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Deposition of John Booth of Luton, constable - 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

On request of Mrs Gregory he went to Mr Eyles in Church Street last Saturday and found a fowl there. When he was fetching the fowl he saw Warner and Burgess at the churchyard gate and apprehended them. A young woman names Eliza Carrington lives at Mileman's adjoining Warner's who is George Mead's sweetheart. In the afternoon he apprehended Mead at Milemore's where he was in company with her. This morning he found three more fowls in the yard there - their feathers were rumpled, their coops empty and they were in poor condition. At Mrs Milemore's house he foudn a quantity of feathers in a hole near the stairs and some fresh chicken dung. Mrs Milemore denied any knowledge of the feathers or dung, When put with other fowls the first fowl began to fight, but when put with the 3 found this morning they were familiar and began to feed together. After the prisoners were remanded last Monday he heard Mead say to the others that he and Laurence would have been at liberty if it had not been for young Warner. The other 2 said there would have been nothing against them if it had not been for Scales.

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Mead, George,
Lawrence, James,
Warner, Reuben,
Burgess, Isaac,
Gregory, Elizabeth,
Booth, John,
Eyles,
Carrington, Eliza,
Milemore, Robert,
Scales, Thomas

LUTON, stealing, fowls