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Depositions and examination - Frederick Sinfield charged with stealing one silver penholder from Arthur Perry Bower

21 March 1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

George Holme Bower of Luton – he is in his 15th year. He is a pupil at the College, Luton. The silver penholder now produced is his. He knows it by the mark round the top. On Sunday 27 February he left it in his best waistcoat pocket when he went to bed. He put on a different suit the next day and his best clothes went out to be brushed. He did not see the penholder again until Mr Wright and the Inspector James showed it to him. It is the one now produced. His father’s name is Arthur Perry Bower. The penholder is worth 1s. Henry Wright, principal of the College, Luton – it was Sinfield’s duty to brush the boys’ clothes. The boys’ best clothes were given to him to brush and return to the wardrobe woman. He was not instructed to take out anything he found in the pockets. George James, Inspector of Police at Luton – on Saturday March 5 he searched Sinfield’s left hand trousers pocket and found the penholder now produced. He has since charged him with stealing it at Mr Wright’s house. Sinfield said he never did it, the penholder was his. Frederick Sinfield – “I never stole the penholder”.

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Sinfield, Frederick,
Wright, Henry,
Bower, Arthur Perry,
Bower, George Holme,
James, George

LUTON, stealing, schoolmaster, specific schools, police inspector