QSR1854/1/5/6

Depositions of Thomas Waller, baker of Shefford, Elizabeth Ann Bates, servant and Edward Shreeves. In the case of George Green accused of obtaining 6d by false pretences.

10 November 1853

From: 1853 To: 1854

Elizabeth Ann Bates: a servant in the employ of Reverend Daniel Josiah Oliver of Clifton. On the morning of 7 November a lad in her masters service brought a parcel from Shefford which he had been sent by mail cart from Biggleswade. He delivered it to a fellow servant in her presence. It consisted of medicine from the doctors and the lad said there was 8 pence to pay, which he had been unable to pay when he was at Shefford. That evening George Green called her master’s house and said he was the driver of the cart from Biggleswade to Shefford and he was calling for sixpence for the carriage of the parcel that morning. She went and fetched sixpence and gave it to him and he went away. The footman had asked her o go and get the sixpence as he had no change. Edward Shreeves: he was in the service of Thomas Waller a mail contractor at Shefford. He drove the mail cart from Biggleswade to Shefford and had done so for about 10 days. George Green used to drive the cart but left his masters employment about a fortnight or three weeks previous. On the Monday morning he carried the parcel from Biggleswade to Shefford and left it at the post office there. The usual charge for carrying a parcel was sixpence. He did not authorize Green or anyone else to collect the sixpence for him. The money arising from the carriage belonged to the driver of the car. The parcel consisted of bottles wrapped together. Statement of the accused: when he left Mr Waller’s there was no carriage of the bottles owning to him.

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Green, George,
Waller, Thomas,
Bates, Elizabeth Ann,
Shreeves, Edward,
Oliver, Daniel Josiah

CLIFTON, SHEFFORD, BIGGLESWADE, carrier, false pretences, servant, medicine