QSR1843/1/5/39

Depositions and examination - Robert Chapman charged with stealing a shirt

3 December 1842

From: 1842 To: 1843

Ann Monk, wife of William Monk of Hockliffe, labourer - she washes the linen of George Green the hostler of the White Horse Inn at Chalgrave. She received a shirt from him last Sunday to wash. She washed it on Thursday and mended the collar. On Friday she hung it out on a hedge in a field joining the Turnpike Road at about 9am. She missed it at about 1pm. She gave information to Policeman Clough and the same day he brought the shirt back to her. William Clough, police constable stationed at Hockliffe - he received information from Ann Monk that a shirt had been stolen. He went towards Dunstable and overtook the prisoner. He found him wearing the shirt now produced over another shirt. It was quite damp. He took the prisoner into custody. Ann Monk recognized the shirt as the one she had lost. Robert Chapman - will say nothing.

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Monk, Ann,
Monk, William,
Clough, William,
Chapman, Robert

HOCKLIFFE, CHALGRAVE, stealing, clothing, ostler, police constable, washerwoman, Chalgrave White Horse