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Depositions and examination - Joseph Chandler of Leighton Buzzard, labourer, charged with stealing one bushel of onions value 5s from Thomas Eggleton at Leighton Buzzard about 1st November 1876

29 November 1876

From: 1876 To: 1877

Thomas Eggleton of Leighton Buzzard, market gardener – he employed Chandler at the beginning of November for about 3 weeks to whitewash his cottages. He had about a ton of onions there when Chandler mixed his lime wash. He would not have missed a bushel. He was drawing from the heap daily himself. His onions are not all the same sorts. They are White Spanish and Globe. The samples produced correspond – they are a mixture of White Spanish and Globe. James Lunniss, police constable stationed at Leighton Buzzard – on 17 November he searched Chandler’s house. In a bedroom upstairs he found about a bushel of onions in a bag. He took possession of them and produces a portion. It corresponds with a sample from Eggleton’s heap. When Chandler was charged he said he had bought the onions near the Town Hall but did not know who from. Joseph Chandler – he bought the onions near the Town Hall but can’t say who he bought them from.

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Chandler, Joseph,
Eggleton, Thomas,
Lunniss, James

LEIGHTON BUZZARD, stealing, onions, market gardener, police constable