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Depositions of Abraham Kennedy, Superintendent of Police, Gadsby Street, Bedford, George Bundy, horsekeeper of Wyboston and Joseph Billington, police constable of Wyboston. In the case of John Keighly accused of unnatural offences with a mare.

26 March 1881

From: 1881 To: 1881

George Bundy: a horse keeper to Isaac Brightman of Wyboston. On 19 March, he was going into the stable and saw the prisoner on a wooden block, trying to engage with a horse. The prisoner’s trousers were undone and doing what a man does with a woman. The prisoner stepped off the block and walked beside the mare. After a discussion in which he originally denied the offence he said he had done it and he would never do it again. Bundy said he should tell his master. Joseph Billington: a police constable who apprehended the prisoner on a warrant. The prisoner said he did not understand and was he to be punished if anything happened to the mare? The police constable explained he was charged with attempting to commit an unnatural offence with a mare. Keighly said he had and he was very sorry and he would plead guilty. Statement of the accused: nothing to say.

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Keighly, John,
Kennedy, Abraham,
Bundy, George,
Billington, Joseph,
Brightman, Isaac

Wyboston, Bedford Gadsby Street, horses, sex crimes