QSR1842/1/5/29-30

Depositions and examinations - (1) John Fleckney, charged with breaking into the house of John Gray and stealing a pair of boots and other articles; (2) George Fensom, charged with receiving the boots knowing them to be stolen

8 December 1841

From: 1841 To: 1842

Mary Scrivener of Luton, single woman - she is servant to Mr John Gray of Luton, builder. On 23 November she found the back kitchen window open and the back door unbolted. She bolted it herself overnight. Her master asked her for his boots - she looked where she had put them behind the door and could not find them. She also missed her shawl, her umbrella which had been hanging in the kitchen, a pair of brass snuffers and a pig's cheek. The umbrella now produced is hers. James Clark of Luton, shoemaker - he made the boots produced for John Gray and delivered them to him on 11 October. Harriet Dimmock, wife of William Dimmock of Caddington Woodside - on Tuesday 23 November she went to the house where John Fleckney lodges and saw him scrape a pig's cheek, wash it and put it into the pot to boil. She ate part of it. The following Sunday she saw John Fleckney again at his lodgings. He had a pair of boots on which were much like the boots now produced. Fleckney asked George Fensom to change boots with him. Fleckney's father married Fensom's mother. Fleckney said he did not like to wear new boots himself. George Fensom changed boots with him. Fleckney did not tell Fensom where he had them from. Sarah Fleckney of Caddington Woodside, spinster - on 23 November her brother John Fleckney asked her if she wished to buy an umbrella he had found. She said she had not much money to spare but would give him 6d then and more another time. On Monday December 5 she used the umbrella when she came to Luton. As she was going home she met her brother near Whitehill - she went home across Mr Crawley's lawn. She gave it to him to carry. She has not seen it since. It was a dark umbrella, but she took little notice and cannot say whether it was the one now produced. She only used it twice. Joseph Perry of Cold Harbour in Caddington - he works for Mr Crawley. On Tuesday 7 December he was going to Stockwood with some straw when he found the umbrella now produced lying on the grass between the gardener's house and Mr Crawley's. It was near the coach road on the way towards Woodside. William Ashton of Luton, superintendent of police - from information received he procured a warrant against George Fensom who he was informed had enlisted in the royal marines. He went to Brompton Barracks near Chatham (Kent) and found the boots now produced in George Fensom's knapsack. He said he had them from John Fleckney. John Gray of Luton, builder - on 23 November when he got up he asked his servant Mary Scrivener for his boots. She said she could not find them. She told him the house had been broken into. He had not seen his boots since until Mr Ashton brought them from Chatham. John Fleckney - he found the boots on Farley Green George Fensom - he made an exchange with John Fleckney

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Fleckney, John,
Fensom, George,
Gray, John,
Scrivener, Mary,
Clark, James,
Dimmock, Harriet,
Dimmock, William,
Fleckney, Sarah,
Perry, Joseph,
Ashton, William,
Crawley

LUTON, Caddington Woodside, Cold Harbour, Stockwood, Farley Green, Chatham, breaking & entering, receiving stolen goods, boots, clothing, household goods, builder, shoemaker, Royal Marines