QSR1844/3/5/2

Depositions and examination - John Richards, charged with stealing a carpenter's square from John Bazley

15 April 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

John Flood of St Paul Bedford, wheelwright – he is employed by Mr Bazley of St Paul’s, wheelwright. Bazley’s shop is in a yard at the back of his house. About 12.30 this morning (15 April) he [Flood] was going from the house to the shop and heard a noise in the shop as of something jinking like steel. When he got to the shop Richards was coming out of the door. Richards asked if it was a wheelwright’s shop and if the master lived in the house up the yard. He told him yes. Richards left the yard. A few minutes later he missed a tool they use for squaring wood called a square. He had been using it about 2 hours earlier. No one else was in the shop during that time. The square produced by Lamb is the one he lost. John Bazley of St Paul Bedford, wheelwright – the square produced by Lamb is his property. He knows it from a cut he made in the handle 2 or 3 years ago. Samuel Lamb, constable of Borough of Bedford – from information received he followed Richards to Bromham and took the square from him. John Richards – the square is his own. He bought it at Pembroke in South Wales 20 years ago.

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Richards, John,
Bazley, John,
Flood, John,
Lamb, Samuel

BEDFORD, Bedford St.Mary, Bedford St.Paul, Pembroke, Wales, stealing, tools, carpenter, wheelwright, police constable