QSR1841/1/5/14

Depositions and examination - Robert Williams

18 November 1840

From: 1840 To: 1841

Lucy Skevington of Turvey - from information given to her by Skevington Eyles that morning she missed a pair of cloth boots. She is 18 years of age. The boots now produced are hers. She last saw them on Sunday evening in the kitchen of her father Charles Skevington's house at Turvey. She saw Williams on Sunday eveing in the kitchen. Her father keeps a public house called the Tinker. Williams came with some beasts and stopped at her father's house that night. Skevington Eyles of Elstow, farmer - the previous night he saw Williams in the Swan public house at Elstow. William Prudden in William's presence showed him the boots and told him he had bought them from Williams for 2 shillings. He asked Williams where he found the boots - he said a little way off Northampton Toll Gate. Later he said he found them against Clapham Toll Gate - then he said he found them along the Kempston Road against the hand post. He told Williams he suspected he had not come by them honestly. Williams said his master saw him pick them up. He asked Williams' master and he said he did not. Williams' master said they stopped the previous night at the Tinker at Turvey. William Prudden of Elstow, painter and glazier - he bought the boots at the Swan in Elstow for 2 shillings the previous night. Williams said he found them against Northampton Toll Gate

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Williams, Robert,
Skevington, Lucy,
Skevington, Charles,
Eyles, Skevington,
Prudden, William

TURVEY, ELSTOW, stealing, boots, Turvey Tinker, Elstow Swan