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Depositions of William Wright and William Coombs - Charles Morris charged with stealing carpenter's tools from William Wright and Thomas Peer.

29 April 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

William Wright of St Paul Bedford, carpenter - he lost a quantity of carpenter's tools: 3 smoothing planes, one saw, 2 chisels, one file, one folding rule, one axe and one mallet. He missed them on 21 March from the buildings in Victoria Terrace in the parish of St Paul at which he was at work. He had not lent them or disposed of them to anyone. He knows Morris. On Saturday three weeks after he missed his tools he saw one of his smoothing planes and the mallet in the possession of Mr Coombs. His name is on the plane and he can swear to the mallet. William Coombs, chief constable of Bedford - from information received on 9 April he went to the prisoner's house in Tower Court, Gravel Lane, St Paul's Bedford to search for some carpenter's tools. He found the plane in the coal hole (he had a house to himself) and the mallet in his bedroom. He showed them to Wright who immediately identified them as his property.

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Morris, Charles,
Peer, Thomas,
Wright, William

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