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Depositions - William Mace of Gamlingay (Cambs) charged with stealing one great coat from Samuel Manning

21 June 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Samuel Manning of Biggleswade, timber merchant - on Saturday 10 June he left his great coat at the Bird in Hand at Cambridge with Wood the landlord. It was the same great coat as is now produced. He has had it since last Michaelmas. Joseph Smith of Biggleswade, labourer - on Wednesday 14 June he drove Mr Manning's timber carriage home to Sandy from Cambridge and brought on it his master's great coat which he received from Woods the landlord of the Bird in Hand at Cambridge. When he got near to the corner of White Wood in the parish of Gamlingay (Cambs) it was about 11.30pm. A tall man dressed in a dark coat and a cap snatched his whip out of his hand and ran away. He ran after him and when he got back to the waggon he found the great coat, together with another great coat he had in the carriage, were gone. He saw a shortish man wearing a short jacket and trousers and a cap jump over some rails into the standing rye and then he lost him. He did not know either of the men. He searched for some time but could not find either of the great coats. William Breakwell of Biggleswade - he is a police constable. Last Monday he went to William Mace who was in a brick field in the parish of Potton and asked him if he had got a great coat. Joseph Smith was with him. Mace said "yes". He asked to see it. Mace took them to a hack of bricks and pulled off the straw and showed him the coat under the straw. It is the coat now produced. He took Mace into custody.

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Mace, William,
Manning, Samuel,
Smith, Joseph,
Breakwell, William

Gamlingay, BIGGLESWADE, POTTON, Sandy White Wood Corner, stealing, coat, timber merchant, Cambridge Bird in Hand, brick making