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Depositions of George Hart, baker of Tavistock Street, Bedford, John Harrington, collector of marine stores, Gravel Lane, Bedford and Thomas Tillyard, police constable, Beckett Street, Bedford. In the case of John Joyce accused of stealing a coat.

7 May 1852

From: 1852 To: 1852

George Hart: a baker living at Tavistock Street in Bedford. On the evening of 28 April he hung his coat on a nail in a barn in Newnham in Goldington. His father occupies the farm and barn. He then locked the barn. On retuning to the barn the following morning he missed the coat and the lock on the barn had been broken by a grafting took which had been in the hovel by the barn. John Harrington: on the morning of 6 April he was going up Ampthill Street and saw the prisoner standing against the corner. He called Harrington by name and asked him to buy a coat. Harrington declined at first but afterwards agreed to buy it for 2 pences. After he had purchased the coat he heard that Mr Hart had lost a coat of similar description. Thomas Tillyard: from information received he apprehended the prisoner on the morning of 6 May and told him of the charge. The accused said he did not steal the coat but bought it at Newnham that morning from a person he knew but he did not know their name.

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Joyce, John,
Hart, George,
Harrington, John,
Tillyard, Thomas

GOLDINGTON, Bedford Gravel Lane, Bedford Tavistock Street, Bedford Beckett Street, stealing, coat, marine stores dealer, baker