QSR1843/1/5/55

Depositions and examination - John Odell

7 November 1842

From: 1842 To: 1843

Sarah Foxley, wife of Samuel Foxley - they keep the Birchmoor Arms beer house in Woburn. On Saturday 29 October John Odell was in their house. William Grover a butcher from Bow Brickhill was with him. They were there 2 or 3 hours and left about 5pm. They were not tipsy but had had a good deal of beer. About 5 minutes after they left she missed a pair of snuffers from the tap room mantel shelf. There were usually 2 pairs there. She also missed a drinking glass with the initials of her name on it. The snuffers she lost and the remaining pair were both alike except that the pair taken had lost the two legs behind. She had bought both pairs together at Mr Wolfe's a month before. She gave information to Parrott the police constable. Yesterday Parrott brought the snuffers she had lost (now produced). Three or four other persons had been in during that afternoon but they were all regular customers. She had no other reason for suspecting Odell than that she could trust the others and knew little of him. James Parrott, police constable 34 - yesterday he went to John Odell's house. He saw the snuffers hanging over the mantelpiece. He asked where Odell got them - he said he bought them a week last Saturday from some chap on the road. He took the snuffers and showed them to Mrs Foxley and she identified them as hers. They were hanging openly. There was no one in the room besides Odell and a child. John Odell - he did not take the snuffers out of the house. He was very tipsy. He can't say if anyone put them anywhere about him. He gave 4d for the snuffers. He bought them as he was going to work. He can't tell who he bought them off. It was a travelling man going down the road. Both Grove and he were drunk. Judy Kent was in the cart with them.

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Odell, John,
Foxley, Sarah,
Foxley, Samuel,
Parrott, James,
Grover, William,
Kent, Judy

WOBURN, Bow Brickhill, stealing, household goods, Woburn Birchmoor Arms