QSR1841/2/5/2-3/d

Depositions and examination - Edward Underwood

18 March 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

Samuel Sheffield of Ampthill, shoemaker - on Monday morning 22 February bewteen 9 and 10am he missed a pair of men's high shoes, an unfinished pair of boy's shoes, a pair of pincers, a punch and a piece of calico. The mens shoes were very stout, high and large, and watertight. They were finished except the tongues were not stitched up by the side of the lace holes. He thinks the lace holes were not punched. The boy's shoes and pincers now produced were stolen from him. Edward Joyce of Newport Pagnel (Bucks), pawnbroker - Underwood and Page came to him on March 9th and among other things offered for sale a pair of watertight men's boots or high shoes - the proper term is half boot. They were unusually large. He thinks the lace holes were not punched. He cannot say if the tongues were stitched to the sides. He refused to buy them. Underwood said he made them himself, and said that big as they were they were not big enough for the man he made them for. He considered Underwood and Page were acting together. Francis Roberts, police constable - while Underwood was in his custody he said he had found the gun he pledged at Mr Joyce's together with the 2 pairs of shoes and the half boots in his garden. Underwood said he did not steal them himself but knew when they were taken and knew he was guilty of doing wrong when he sold them but he was starving. He said he sold the pair of half boots to a man near the Pound at Newport Pagnel. He [Roberts] found the unfinished pair of shoes and the pincers above the ceiling of the porch of Millbrook Church. Edward Underwood - Mr Joyce says wrong that he said the boots were not big enough for the man he made them for. He said they were not big enough for the man he offered them to. He found the things and then sold them. He was starving. He did not know whose they were.

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Underwood, Edward,
Page, Thomas,
Sheffield, Samuel,
Joyce, Edward,
Roberts, Francis

MILLBROOK, AMPTHILL, Newport Pagnell, CHURCH, receiving stolen goods, shoemaker, leather, shoes, guns