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Depositions and examination - William Brown alias Ginger Jarvis, charged with stealing one mare value £30 from George William Darby on 13 August at Luton

27 June 1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

George William Darby of Luton - he is a butcher at Cheapside, Luton. On Thursday 12 August 1869 about 3pm he put a dark brown mare into a field adjoining the new Bedford Road, Luton. He missed it the next afternoon. From information he received he went to Ringwood in Hampshire on 25 August. He saw the mare he had lost there. He received the mare from Superintendent Stevenson on 2 September. She was worth £30. He has since sold the mare to Mr John William Green of Luton. William Bradford of Ringwood (Hants), innkeeper – he is innkeeper at the George Inn, Ringwood. He knows the prisoner. On 17 August 1869 the prisoner came to his house with a brown mare. On 18th he gave him £7.10s for it. On the 24th he showed it to Superintendent Stevenson who took it into his possession on 25th. He was there when Mr Darby came and identified the mare. He saw the prisoner with some others at the Luton Police Station and recognised him as the man who sold him the mare. Charles Henry Stevenson of Ringwood (Hants), superintended of police – on Wednesday 25 August 1869 he received the mare from Bradford. On 2 September he gave it up to George William Darby. Frederick Smith of Luton, sergeant of police – he took the prisoner into custody at the Main Bridewell, Liverpool, on 14 June 1870, where he was detained by the Liverpool Police. He charged him with stealing the mare. He then took him to the railway station. As the train was leaving Liverpool the prisoner said “I know who it was that told you superintendent where I was”. The prisoner said that if he had known a little sooner he would have been in Ireland and he would not have got him, “but it doesn’t much matter. I shall plead guilty. I know the man I sold the mare to knows me and I shall plead guilty before the Magistrates for if a man is a thief he must expect to be caught sometime”. William Brown / Ginger Jarvis – nothing to say.

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Brown, William,
Jarvis, Ginger,
Darby, George William,
Bradford, William,
Stevenson, Charles Henry,
Smith, Frederick,
Green, John William

LUTON, Luton Cheapside, Ringwood, Liverpool, horse theft, butcher, innkeeper, police superintendent, police sergeant