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Depositions and examination - Thomas Kelley, charged with stealing 2 pocket handkerchiefs and 3 1/2 d from Thomas Latchford [sic] at Dunstable on 16 March 1878

20 March 1878

From: 1878 To: 1878

Charles Latchford of Dunstable, dealer – he is a lodger at Mr Franklin’s, the White Horse Inn, Dunstable. On 15 March he left 2 handkerchiefs in his coat pocket on his bed and 3½d in coppers in his trousers pocket on a chair by his bedside. He awoke about 7am. Kelley, who had slept in another bed in the same room, had gone. He missed the handkerchiefs and money. He identifies the handkerchief produced as one of those he lost. There were only 2 beds in the room. He saw Kelley when he came into the house the day of the robbery. The value of the 2 handkerchiefs is 1s. Septimus Franklin of Dunstable, tailor – he is a son of the landlord of the White Horse Inn. He remembers Kelley asking for lodgings on 15 March. Kelley occupied a bed in the same room as Latchford Henry Tofield of Dunstable, police constable – he apprehended Kelley at Bedford on 16 March. Kelley said he came from Luton. He charged Kelley with stealing 8s and 2 pocket handkerchiefs at Dunstable. He found the handkerchief produced and 15s 1¾d in money on Kelley. After he charged him Kelley said “if the old man said he had lost 8s he was a liar. I only took 3½d. That was all he had in his pocket.” Thomas Kelley – he has nothing to say.

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Kelley, Thomas,
Latchford, Charles,
Franklin, Septimus,
Tofield, Henry

DUNSTABLE, stealing, money, handkerchief, dealer, tailor, police constable, Dunstable White Horse