Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1852/1/5/3,30/b
  • Title
    Depositions of John Shaw, police constable In the case of James Britton & Samuel Townsend the younger, accused of stealing 10 bushels of potatoes.
  • Date free text
    15 November 1851
  • Production date
    From: 1851 To: 1851
  • Scope and Content
    John Shaw: a police constable stationed at Potton. He received information on 12 November that Mr Peter’s potato pits had been opened and a quantity of potatoes taken. He went the following day to Royston and inconsequence of further information there, went the following day to Buntingford with John Evans. Evans showed him some potatoes in a sack and Shaw took a sample from them. These potatoes matched with those produced by David Boness.
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