QSR1841/3/5/7

Depositions - James Hopwood

16 April 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

George Chambers of Luton, coach builder - on the previous Saturday James Hopwood asked him to let him have a set of harness and a whip. He told him he could not as he wanted them himself. In the afternoon he went out and did not return until late in the evening. He never gave Hopwood leave to have any harness of his as he had heard Hopwood was going to leave the place altogether. That morning due to something he heard he went to Hopwood but could not get a satisfactory answer about the harness he had got from him under false pretence. He threatened to charge the police with him. Hopwood said if he would come into Charley's, menaing the White Hart, he would make it all right. Instead of which Hopwood got away and he has not seen him since. George White, journeyman to George Chambers - about 2pm on Saturday Hopwood came to his master's shop. Hopwood said he was to get the harness ready and bring it up to his place about 7pm, and that Mr Chambers said he was to have it. He took the harness about 7.15 thinking his master had given Hopwood leave.

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Hopwood, James,
Chambers, George,
White, George

LUTON, Luton White Hart, stealing, harness, coach builder