QSR1842/4/5/24-25

Depositions - John Dougall alias Featherstone and James Dougall alias Featherstone charged with stealing a sovereign from Michael Connelly

15 August 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

Michael Connelly of Luton, labourer - on Sunday 14 August about 6pm he was at Faulkners Hall Farm in the parish of Luton. The prisoner asked him to mend his boy's shoes. He put his hand into his pocket and pulled out his awl and a tobacco box and put the box down by the side of himself and the prisoner. There was a sovereign in the box. The prisoner's son came into the barn and told him [Connelly] his partner wanted him. He went out to speak to his partner. He found he was bargaining for a watch and wanted 3s 6d which he [Connelly] owed him. He went back to the barn for his box and found James [sic] Dougall coming from the barn who asked if he had any waxend to mend his shoes. He said not and went into the barn. He could not find his box. He came out and asked Dougall for his box. Dougall said he had not got it and had not seen it. He told Dougall where he had left it and that there was a sovereign in it. They and several others went into the barn. They found the boy James Dougall there who ran into one corner of the barn as soon as they entered. He begged John Dougall to give him the box , but he still declared he had not got it. He then went for a policeman who took the prisoners into custody. He could see the barn door while he was at the brewhouse door and was not inside the brewhouse more than a minute. He is sure nobody went into the barn unless while he was in the brewhouse. All the Irishmen were at the brewhouse except the prisoners and nobody was about the yard but themselves. John Chapman of Luton, police constable - that morning he was fetchup up to Mrs Davis' of Faulkner's Hall Farm and Michael Connelly gave him charge of the prisoners. He searched them both and found one pound ten shillings in gold sewed up in the boy's trousers and the father had 8s 6d in his purse. He put them both into the cage. John Dougall said he got £1 5s 5d at Mrs Davis' and the remainder was for 7 days work at Harpenden.

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Connelly, Michael,
Dougall, John,
Dougall, James,
Chapman, John,
Davis (d)

LUTON, Luton Faulkners Hall Farm, stealing, money, Irish