QSR1842/3/5/8/c

Depositions of Thomas Peer of Russell Street, St Paul Bedford, carpenter and William Coombs chief constable of Bedford - Charles Morris charged with stealing a saw

29 April 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

Thomas Peer - On 21 March he missed a saw from the new buildings in Victoria Terrace, St Pauls Bedford where he was at work. He saw it about 3 weeks later in the possession of Mr Coombs. He is sure it is the same saw. He had not lent or disposed of it to anyone. He knows Morris. He never heard him say anything about it. William Coombs - from information he received he searched the prisoner's house on 9 March [sic, marginal annotation "April"] for some carpentry tools and found the saw now produced upstairs in the prisoner's bedroom. His house is in Tower Court Gravel Lane St Paul's.

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Morris, Charles,
Peer, Thomas,
Coombs, William

stealing, tools, carpenter, Bedford St.Paul, Bromham Road Victoria Terrace, Bedford, Bedford Tower Court, Bedford Gravel Lane