Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1883/4/5/15
  • Title
    Depositions of Charles Carter Jeeves, farmer of Blunham, James Harding, labouer of Blunham, Frederick Prentice, Thomas Matthews, marine store dealer of Northill and Thomas Woods, police constable of Blunham. In the case of James Wheatley accused of stealing a rick cloth and bag.
  • Date free text
    10 September 1883
  • Production date
    From: 1883 To: 1883
  • Scope and Content
    James Harding: on 24 September he was going to have his breakfast when he saw the prisoner coming out of Mr Jeeves rick yard with a bag on his shoulder. Frederick Prentice: a labourer working fro Mr Jeeves. On 21 September he was in is masters rick yard at Blunham, looking for a ladder and he saw a cloth lying on a tub in the yard. On going to working on 24 September, he missed the cloth. Thomas Matthews: a marine store dealer of Northill. On 24 September he had been at Blunham collecting rags. He called on the prisoner who told him he had a bundle of old clothes and sacks to sell. The prisoner brought these out of his house and gave them to him in exchange for a shilling and sixpence. Charles Carter Jeeves: a farmer of Blunham. On 24 September the prisoner was brought to him by PC Woods along with the cloth and bag. The prisoner said he had nothing of from Jeeves before and what he had taken wasn’t worth anything. Thomas Woods: from information received he stopped Thomas Matthews, a marine store dealer at Blunham, and searched his cart. He found the old cloth and bag branded Lewis of Birmingahm in the cart. Matthews said he had brought the lot off Wheatley. Woods charged Wheatley who said he had not stolen the cloth it had belonged to Gardener Hills and nobody saw him steal it. Woods told him he had a man who had seen him take it out of Mr Jeeves’s yard. Wheatley said the items had come from different places. He took the defendant to Mr Jeeves who identified the cloth and bag as his property. At the police station, Wheatley said to him to get the little job settled by a little fine as the stuff had no value, and asked him to be a friend as they had known each other long enough. Statement of the accused: he wife was ill and he hoped to be let off with a fine.
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