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Depositions of Henry Ison Jebbett, police superintendent of Bedford, John Illiffe, farmer of Marston Moretaine, Thomas Lovesey, labourer of Cranfield, John Ford, labourer of Cranfield and Charles Flint, police constable of Cranfield. In the case of Ebenezer Iliffe accused of stealing a sack and beans.

14 August 1851

From: 1851 To: 1851

John Iliffe: following from information received from Charles Flint, he went ot Cranfield and saw a sack with his name on it, which he knew to be his property. The sack contained a quantity of beans. The prisoner did not have his authority to take the sack or the beans. Thomas Lovesey: on the morning of 8 August, about 4 o'clock he was going to work at Richardson’s in Cranfield. He met the prisoner and another man and spoke to them. They were both on horseback, and each had a sack. There appeared to be something in both sacks. They went off towards Cranfield. John Ford: about 4 o'clock on 8 August he saw the prisoner on horseback with a sack. The sack appeared full of something. Another man was about 10 yards from the prisoner, also on horseback. Shortly after, he was advised by Mr Folder's man that there was a sack of beans lying at the bottom of his garden. Ford picked it up and took it into the house. The second man he had seen did not have a sack on his horse. He later saw the prisoner going in the direction of Marston. Charles Flint: from information received he went it John Ford's house on 8 August. There he saw a sack of beans which had John Iliffe mark on it. Ford told him he had found the sack in a ditch at the side of the road in his garden. Ford told Flint how he had seen the prisoner and the other man that morning. He went to Marston and apprehended Ebenzer Iliffe at a public house. Iliffe told Flint that he had not been in Cranfield that morning, and he had only just met George (Edward Millard’s man, who Flint suspected to be the second man). Once taken into custody, Ebenezer Iliffe told Flint that this would not have happened if his father had behaved well to him. He said his father knew he had corn as he had previously found it concealed on the farm. Henry Ison Jebbett: as he conveyed the prisoner from Bedford to Ampthill, the accused began to talk about his case, and that his father had kept him without pocket money. He knew he had taken the beans and was at liberty to make money from them.Statement of the accused: said that there was no evidence that the beans had been in his possession. Nobody had seen him come away from the beans. He had nothing else to say.

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Iliffe, Ebenezer,
Iliffe, John,
Lovesey, Thomas,
Ford, John,
Flint, Charles,
Jebbett, Henry Ison,
Millard, Edward,
Richardson

BEDFORD, CRANFIELD, stealing, beans, sack