QSR1843/1/5/18

Deposition and examination - Joseph Sands

21 October 1842

From: 1842 To: 1843

Elizabeth Hopkins - she is the daughter of Samuel Hopkins of Leighton Buzzard, publican. She lives with him. On Wednesday about 5pm Sands and another young man came into the taproom and asked for some ale. They sat in the taproom to drink it. She was in the parlour. She came out and saw Sands in the act of sitting down, but as soon as he saw her he walked very sharp out of the house. She saw his coat sticking out at the breast. She looked to the shelf of the taproom and missed a brass pestle and mortar. She ran after Sands and caught him just as he was going out of the front door. She seized him by the collar and accused him of stealing something. She took the pestle from the breast of his coat and he then gave her the mortar from the same place. She let the prisoner go away, but when she told her mother she had him taken into custody. She is quite sure the prisoner is the man. The other man ran away and has not been heard of since. The pestle and mortar are worth more than 2s 6d. Joseph Sands - he is very sorry for what he has done. He had a deal of beer in him at the time and was fuddled. He has never been in the hands of the police before. He is a native of Manchester. He was going towards Manchester from London. He is a picture frame maker by trade. He knows very little about the man who was with him - he is an Irishman, but he does not know his name. He does not know the name of the man who spoke to them that morning. He only knew him as travelling. He was lodging at Little Brickhill before he was taken.

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Sands, Joseph,
Hopkins, Samuel,
Hopkins, Elizabeth

LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Manchester, Little Brickhill, stealing, publican, picture frame maker, drunkenness