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Depostions of George Daniels, police sergeant of Shefford, Elizabeth Daniels, wife of George and William Odell, roadman of Shefford. In the case of Henry Plummer, accused of stealing a cotton pocket handkerchief.

16 March 1881

From: 1881 To: 1881

Elizabeth Daniels: wife of Sergeant Daniels at Shefford. On 25 February, she hung a quantity of linen on the clothes line in the garden. A man who she recognised as Henry Plummer came to the back door and asked for a piece of bread. She told him she had none to give him and he went away. About 5 minutes later she noticed the handkerchief had been torn from the clothes line, with 2 or 3 strips of it left with the pegs. When shown the handkerchief the following evening, she identified it. William Odell: A roadman of Shefford and on 25 February the prisoner passed him on the bridge at Shefford. It was 9.30am and the prisoner was going towards Bedford. The prisoner would have had to pass Sergeant Daniels house. George Daniels: he apprehended the prisoner on 26 February, in Clifton Fields, on another charge. He found the handkerchief which he identified as his own property. The prisoner said he had found it by the side of the road 4 or 5 miles away. Statement of the accused: the young man who took the handkerchief and went to the door was Arthur Walters. He had passed the handkerchief to him, 4 or 5 miles up the road.

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Plummer, Henry,
Daniels, George,
Daniels, Elizabeth,
Odell, William,
Walters, Arthur

SHEFFORD, stealing, handkerchief