Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1840/4/5/10/a
  • Title
    Depositions and examination - John Gilbert
  • Date free text
    11 August 1840
  • Production date
    From: 1840 To: 1840
  • Scope and Content
    Mary Thurley wife of Thomas Thurley of St Paul Bedford, beerhouse keeper - John Gilbert came into her hose on Sunday 9 August and asked her for lodgings. He said he had come a good way and was very tired, so she took him in. He went into the kitchen and went to bed about 7.30. About 8.30 in the morning she went to his bed and found him gone. About 9am he came in again. He had half a pint of beer and gave her a shilling to pay for it. She went upstairs and looked at his bed and found the bed clothes all right. Afterward she went up into her garret and missed one sheet off a bed there and found other left in its place. She then went into another room and missed the bottom sheet off a bed. The sheets that were taken were good ones and the ones left in their places were bad ones. The ones put on the beds were not hers. She went to John Holloman who sells second hand clothes and found her sheets lying outside the door on a tray. She went home. Mr Coombs came and they went together to Mr Holloman's, where he took possession of the sheets. Going home they met the prisoner and he was taken into custody. John Holloman of St Paul Bedford, broker - he deals in second hand articles. Gilbert came to his house the previous morning and offered him a pair of sheets. About 15 minutes earlier Gilbert offered him a pair of sheets and he said he would look at them. Gilbert told him he had a wife and children in the town and that he must sell the sheets to help him on the road. Gilbert said he was travelling about for employment. He bought the sheets for 3s for the pair. William Coombs, chief constable of Borough of Bedford - about 1pm the previous day he went to Thurley's house and went with Mr Thurley's wife to Holloman's. Holloman produced a pair of sheets he bought that mornign which Mrs thurley Identifed as hers. John Gilbert of St Paul, Bedford, labourer - declined to say anything in his defence.
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