QSR1841/4/5/27

Depositions and examination - Thomas Cannell charged with stealing a sovereign

16 September 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

William Sugars of Riseley, labourer - on Tuesday night 14 September he went to bed about 12 o'clock and felt the sovereign safe in a purse in his breeches pocket. He laid his breeches by the side of his bed. The next morning he missed the sovereign. Thomas Cannell was the only other person to sleep in the same room so he suspected him. He repeatedly asked Cannell for it but he denied taking it. He told Thomas Henry Cullen the policeman and went with Cullen and George Sugars and [took] Cannell to his [Sugars] brother's house. While Cullen was searching the house Cannell gave him a sovereign and said he hoped he would forgive him. Thomas Henry Cullen, constable - William Sugars came to him and informed him that Cannell had robbed him of a sovereign. He went with Sugars to Cannell and accused him of robbing Sugars. He denied knowing Sugars had a sovereign. Sugars said Cannell was present when it was given to him. He searched Cannell but did not find the sovereign so took him to his lodging. While searching his apartment George Sugars called out that they had found the sovereign in Cannell's shoe. While Cannell was in custody he admitted going to bed a few minutes after William Sugars and that he put his hand into Sugars's breeches pocket and took the sovereign out and put it into his own boot. George Sugars of Riseley, labourer - he saw Cannell give his brother a sovereign. Cannell said "here William, her is your sovereign". Thomas Cannell - wishes to say nothing.

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Sugars, William,
Cullen, Thomas Henry,
Sugars, George,
Cannell, Thomas

RISELEY, stealing, money