QSR1844/1/5/9

Depositions - Sarah Ingram

7 November 1843

From: 1843 To: 1844

Emily Ingram – she lives with her parents at Warden. Sarah Ingram is her sister and lives in the same house. They sleep in the same bed. Her parents and another sister also sleep in the same room. Last Sunday night when she went to bed she put her gown which she had worn during the day into her box in her bedroom and put her shoes under the bed. Sarah Ingram slept with her that night. When she woke on the following morning Sarah Ingram was up and had gone. She found her gown and her mother’s shawl which was in the same box had gone, and so had her shoes from under the bed. The gown and shoes produced by the constable are hers and she believes the shawl to be her mother’s. George Sharpe of Biggleswade – yesterday afternoon Edward Blunden, the superintendent of police handed Sarah Ingram over into his custody having apprehended her on a charge of felony. She had the gown, shawl and shoes on her person. He asked whose gown it was. She said it was her own. The prisoner kept the articles on her until she went to bed when they were put into his possession by the servant of the house where the prisoner slept.

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Ingram, Sarah,
Ingram, Emily,
Sharpe, George,
Blunden, Edward

Old Warden, BIGGLESWADE, stealing, clothing, shoes, gown, police superintendent