QSR1841/3/5/12/a

Depositions of Thomas Higgs of Dunstable, bricklayer, against Charles Maddocks

24 April 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

He had a quantity of slatingnails in his possession about a month ago. Suspecting some had been stolen he marked some of the remainder with a file and mixed them with the others in the bag. The previous day Joseph Langley came and informed him that some slating nails had been offered to him for sale by Maddocks and Bowers. He went with John Tutte the police constable to Reuben Bowers and asked him for the nails. Bowers said they were at his house and he would fetch them. He did so - they are the ones produced by John Tutte. He knows them by the marks to be his property, stolen out of a bag in the loft at the back of his house at Dunstable. He lost about 12 lbs of nails, worth 5s.

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Maddocks, Charles,
Higgs, Thomas,
Langley, Joseph,
Bowers, Reuben,
Tutte, John

DUNSTABLE, stealing, nails, bricklayer