QSR1841/2/5/2-3/c

Deposition of James Bates, superintendent of Bedfordshire Rural Police - Edward Underwood and Thomas Page

18 March 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

The prisoners were that morning in the custody of his men. Underwood is step-father to Page. Page's mother applied to see him - he would only allow it in his presence. She asked Page to tell her if he knew where the stolen property was. He warned Page that he might use anything he said in evidence against him. Page was silent for some minutes and then said he would tell his mother. He [Bates] cautioned him again, and told him several times he must have no hopes from telling. Page then told his mother that Spendelow's leather was concealed over the porch of Millbrook Church, and told where some stolen goods were. He had a search made and Millbrook Church and found the leather between the ceiling and the roof of the porch. Page said he got up into the place where the leather was put and it was given up to him by Underwood and James Sherwood. Page said he and Sherwood had got into Spendelow's house and taken the things.

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Underwood, Edward,
Page, Thomas,
Spendelow, Samuel,
Bates, James,
Sherwood, James

MILLBROOK, CHURCH, breaking & entering, leather