QSR1850/4/5/25/b

Depositions of William Breakwell, police constable of Girtford, in the case of Joseph Francis, accused of stealing turnip seed and beans

5 July 1850

From: 1850 To: 1850

William Breakwell: he searched the prisoner’s house and found a sack of turnip seed in a child’s cradle. Upstairs he found another sack which he opened in the presence of Bird and found it contains about a bushel and a half of beans and a dead fowl. The prisoner said that he hoped to be transported, and that it was him who had done it. He wished to bring nobody else any trouble.

item

Francis, Joseph,
Bird, Samuel,
Hills, Stephen,
Breakwell, William

Beeston, stealing, beans, footwear