QSR1854/3/5/27

Depositions of Thomas Price, woodman of Millbrook and William Hillyard, police constable stationed at Ampthill. In the case of Ann Burrows accused of stealing part of a fagot of wood.

17 June 1854

From: 1854 To: 1854

Thomas Price: was a woodman employed by the Duke of Bedford. On 8 June 1854 about 1.30pm he was in a plantation called Moor Close in Millbrook and saw the prisoner. She was alone. There was a quantity of fagots in the plantation put up, ready for sale. He saw her got into the plantation and take a stick from one of the fagots which was untied. It lay loose on the ground. The stick was about the thickness of his arm and about 5 foot long. The stick the prisoner took away was the value of about a halfpenny. Burrows had no business in the plantation and there is neither a road nor path through it. He had seen the prisoner in the wood before but she had got away before he could say anything to her. He went up to her and told her she was doing wrong. Burrows said she knew it and he said he would tell his master. William Hillyard: he was ordered to apprehend Ann Burrows and on doing so she told him she had dropped the piece of wood when she saw Thomas Price coming. She said she had not been there many times before and would not have gone unless her daughter had told her when [?]. Statement of the accused: she did not know what to say.

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Burrows, Ann,
Price, Thomas,
Hillyard, Thomas,
Russell, Francis (7th Duke of Bedford)

MILLBROOK, AMPTHILL, stealing, wood, woodman, police constable