QSR1843/3/5/46/b

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

24 June 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

William Mace and his wife lodge at her house. On Monday afternoon Mace came in the police officer's custody and went upstairs to his wife who was then confined and in bed. Soon afterwards he called her upstairs into his bedroom and asked him to go to Ellen Harman and tell her to see after Henry Sharman to stick to the same story as his and say the coat was found near the keeper's house at White Wood Corner. She asked him no questions and made no answer. She did not go to Ellen Harman. On Wednesday night she went to bed about 10.30pm and bolted the door of the house. Mace had not then come home. She heard no one come in during the night. Mace sleeps in the adjoining room.

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Mace, William,
Manning, Samuel,
Compton, Sarah,
Sharman, Ellen,
Sharman, Henry

Gamlingay, Sandy White Wood Corner, stealing, coat