QSR1843/4/5/16

Depositions and examination - Robert Davis charged with stealing one silver watch, one steel watch chain, one steel watch key and one other metal watch key from John Randall

8 September 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Deborah Randall, wife fo John Randall of Tebworth in the parish of Chalgrave, labourer - that morning she went to a neighbour's hosue for a short time. Whe left her husband's watch hanging on a nail over the mantelshelf. She returned in about 1/4 hour and missed the watch immediately. She went to the next house and asked William Haley's wife if she had seen any travelling man pass as she had lost her watch. She said she had seen one man pass who was stripped in his shirt sleeves and had a cap on. She made enquiries but could not find him. She went to Thomas Smith and asked him to go after the man. The watch chain and seal now produced are her husband's property and are those taken that morning. Thomas Smith of Tebworth, labourer - he went after the prisoner at Deborah Randall's request and found him begging from house to house at Toddington. He watched until he got to the house of a constable. He then went to the man and laid hold of his arm and told him to go in. The man went in and he charged him with stealing a watch. The constable's wife (Mrs Powell) said he may as well say whether he had it or not and the man pulled it out of his pocket saying it was no use denying it. The man said he was tired of begging and wanted to be sent out of the Country. He sent for the constable, who was at Woburn, and gave the man into his custody. The watch chain and seal now produced are those the prisoner gave to him. The prisoner exactly answered the description given to him. Robert Davis - he is guilty of the crime. He was born in Ireland and has travelled in England as a hawker.

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Davis, Robert,
Randall, John,
Randall, Deborah,
Smith, Thomas

Tebworth, CHALGRAVE, stealing, watches, hawker, Irish, vagrancy