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Depositions - John Field charged with stealing eggs

19 April 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

Rebecca Dancer of Luton - the previous Saturday afternoon Field came into her husband's shop for some coals. She told him to go up the yard and he would find the boy there to weigh them. After he had been there some time he returned to the back door and said he could not find the boy and asked her to go to check the coals herself. She did not do so but sent the boy, and as Field was going out of the yard gate her son stopped him. John Dancer - he saw Field coming out of his father's yard and asked him how he came to cut the string of a hamper with eggs in. Field did not reply. He accused Field of having some in his pocket. Field denied it. He laid hold of him and searched him. He found 32 ducks eggs in Field's pockets. One of the eggs was broken or cracked - he saw that egg in the hamper the previous Friday. Smalley the policeman was sent for. Field said he took them and would not do so any more if he would forgive him. Henry Smalley - he took Field into custody under the market place in Luton. Field told John Dancer in his hearing that he had taken the eggs, but would do so no more if he would forgive him. He said he took 32.

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Field, John,
Dancer, Rebecca,
Dancer, John,
Smalley, Henry

LUTON, stealing, eggs