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Deposition of Anne Clarabut of St Paul, Bedford, widow - William Holmes, Henry Fowles and William Fowles charged with receiving stolen goods

20 December 1839

From: 1839 To: 1840

On December 6 she missed two £5 notes of Mr Barnard's Bedford Bank from her pocket book in the drawers in her sleeping room. Last evening she missed a tortoiseshell watch, a pair of silver mounted spectacles, a large snuff box, an abridged history of Greece in one volume and an abridged history of England in one volume, Cottle's poems and a small mourning ring. Her son Gaius Clarabut confessed to her that he had stolen these articles. He had sold the watch to William Fowles a shoemaker who works with Mr Holmes for 1s; the spectacles to Mr Fowles senior, the father of William Fowles, for 1s 6d; the books to Mr Holmes for 6d each; the snuff box also to Mr Holmes but she forgets what he said he received for it. Her son Gaius was only 12 years of age last February. He informed her that William Fowles had resold the watch to Mr Holmes. She believes the articles were purcharsed by Fowles senior, William Fowles and Holmes knowing them to have been stolen, and that some of the articles are now in the possession of each of them.

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Holmes, William,
Fowles, Henry,
Fowles, William,
Clarabut, Anne,
Clarabut, Gaius

Bedford St.Paul, receiving stolen goods, watches, books, shoemaker