QSR1876/1/5/9

Depositions and examination - Samuel Endersby, charged with converting to his own use at Biggleswade on 11 November 1875 one violin, one violin bow, two green baize bags and one shirt, total value £2 6s, the property of Dozer Welsh, for which he was the bailee.

18 December 1875

From: 1875 To: 1876

Dozer Welsh of Eaton Ford, labourer – on Thursday 11 November he was with Samuel Endersby of Biggleswade, labourer. They walked from Shefford to Biggleswade together. He had a violin and bow, 2 green baize bags and a shirt with him. Near Newtown Bridge, Biggleswade he gave these articles to Endersby to hold while he went to ease himself. He left Endersby standing in the road and went through a gate into a field. When he got back Endersby was gone. The violin, bow and green baize bags produced are the ones he lost. [Cross-examined] When they got out of the Shoulder Mutton they went down Newtown. He did not say he going in the Shoulder of Mutton window. Alfred Simpson of 88 High Street, Whitechapel, London, pawnbroker’s assistant – he is assistant to Mr Silfer, 88 High St, Whitechapel, London, pawnbroker. In November he was assistant for Allen Brothers, pawnbrokers of Bucklesbury, Hitchin and took a violin, a green baize bag and bow in pawn from the prisoner for an advance of 2s 6d. Endersby also pawned a pair of trousers for 2s 6d. Endersby said he had been on a “drunken freak” and wanted money to get to his sister at Luton. The violin, bag and bow produced are the ones that were pawned. About 16 November Supt Bedlow produced the pawn ticket, paid the money due and received the articles. Endersby gave the name of “Samuel Brinkley, traveller to Luton”. Frederick Smith of Biggleswade, police inspector – on 15 November he apprehended the prisoner as he was leaving the gaol at Hertford on a warrant and charged him with this offence. Endersby asked who put the value on the things, saying that the fiddle was only a deal one, a 7/6 one, and he pawned it and a pair of trousers of his at Hitchen for half a crown each. William Bedlow of Biggleswade, police superintendent – on 16 November he went to Hitchen to Messrs Allen Brothers, pawnbrokers with Dozer Welch. He gave Alfred Simpson the ticket, 2/6 and 1d for the ticket and received the articles. The other bag was handed to him by Inspector young at the police station, Hitchin, as was the pawn ticket, on 16 November. Samuel Endersby – has nothing to say.

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Endersby, Samuel,
Welsh, Dozer,
Simpson, Alfred,
Smith, Frederick,
Bedlow, William

BIGGLESWADE, Eaton Ford, Hitchin, Whitechapel, violin, pawnbroker, police inspector, police superintendent, Biggleswade Shoulder of Mutton, drunkenness