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Depositions and examination - Cornelius Minty alias John Merchant of Eggington, labourer, charged wtih stealing one pocket handkerchief with some bread and bacon wrapped up therein (value 4d) from John Brinklow

12 March 1872

From: 1872 To: 1872

John Brinklow of Hockliffe, labourer – Minty is a stranger to him. On Thursday 7 march between 10 and 11am he was at work ploughing in a field in the parish of Eggington. He had a handkerchief with some bread and bacon in it which he placed in a basket under a hedge in the field by the side of the highway. He saw Minty leave the road and come over the hedge, stoop down at the place where he had put the basket, and return to the road. He went to the basket and his handkerchief with the bread and bacon was gone. He followed Minty. He saw Minty leave the road and run over a field. He went after him. He saw Minty drop something. When he got to it he found it was his handkerchief with the bread and bacon. He overtook Minty and handed him over to a police constable at Hockliffe. William Knight Clough, superintendent of police for Leighton Buzzard Division – Minty was brought to the police station at Leighton on 7 March by a police constable stationed at Hockliffe. He told the prisoner the charge. Minty made no reply. Cornelius Minty – “It was not that man that kept me. It was another man what catched me.”

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Minty, Cornelius,
Merchant, John,
Brinklow, John,
Clough, William Knight

EGGINGTON, HOCKLIFFE, stealing, bread, bacon, police superintendent, agricultural labourer, ploughing