Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1880/3/5/12
  • Title
    Depositions of John Olden, police sergeant stationed at Leighton Buzzard and John Rolls, on behalf of his daughter Mary Ann, a minor. In the case of William Rolls accused of stealing a jacket.
  • Date free text
    8 June 1880
  • Production date
    From: 1880 To: 1880
  • Scope and Content
    Mary Ann Rolls: an 11 year old who lived with her father at Heath & Reach. The prisoner was her brother. On 8 June her father came to dinner about 12pm and left about 1pm. They looked in the money box and there was a florin, a shilling and a sixpence in it. Her father shut the box and went to work, leaving her and her sister alone in the house with their mother. There was a coat of her fathers hanging by the window. The prisoner came in, sat down and told her to go next door. She did so and left him alone in the house. He did not tell her why she was to go. When she returned he had gone from the house and she saw him going down Lindslade Road, wearing a coat. He did not have a coat on when he came in. She went to look for her fathers coat and it was gone. He sister Emily came in and looked in the box. The money had gone. She stayed in the house until her father came back. John Rolls: a labourer, working for George Swinstead, living in Heath & Reach. He came home for lunch. He left 3 shillings and sixpence in a box on the table. It was closed but not locked. He had a dark blue twill jacket hanging near the window on a nail. He returned home a little before six. His daughter told him of the missing coat and money. The prisoner was his son but not living with him at the time, he had been away from that part of the country for some time. John Olden: a police sergeant in Leighton. On 12 June, he saw the prisoner in Leighton and told him he wanted him on the charge of stealing a jacket and three shilling and sixpence. He said he did not know what he had done with the jacket but later said he had thrown it in the canal. Statement of the accused – William Rolls: nothing to say
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