QSR1844/3/5/30-31/b

Depositions and examinations with covering letter - Samuel Partridge and Charles Freshwater, charged with stealing a pair of sugar nippers value 1s and a pair of candle snuffers value 1s from Edward Long at Thurleigh on 18 June 1844

21 June 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

Covering letter - depositions enclosed. "Part of the depositions by Austin apply equally to the case of Long against the prisoners. But there will be no difficulty if Austin's case is taken first". Elizabeth Long, wife of Edward Long of Thurleigh, publican – on Tuesday morning 18 June the prisoners came into their house. They left at 11.30. They came in together and called for a pint of beer. They stayed some time. She was backwards and forwards waiting on her husband who is ill upstairs. She asked Partridge to go out and hold the doctor’s horse, which he did. Freshwater was lef in the house alone for some time. The property produced was safe on the shelf when the prisoners came in. She went down to draw them a pint of beer and as she came up the steps she heard the nippers rattle as if falling down on the shelf. The nippers and snuffers were on the chimney piece behind the screen, behind the paper. She saw Freshwater reaching down the paper, which he had in his hand. The brush was in the kitchen. Freshwater went several times to the kitchen to light his pipe. She did not miss the brush until the evening. She heard Mrs Austin had lost something and then looked and found she had lost the articles. She does not recollect anyone coming into the house while the prisoners were there, but there was no one left alone in the house when the prisoners went away. She has no doubt the property produced is hers. George Hilson – he found the property snuffers, sugar nippers and brush produced near the place where it had been pointed out to him that the prisoners had been lying in Mr Desborough’s wheat field. He took them down to Mr Long’s house and when he produced them from his basket Mrs Long owned them as the property of her husband. Samuel Partridge – “I was never in Long’s house but a very little while I was out holding the doctor’s horse.” Charles Freshwater – “I never touched anything but some beer, tacca [sic] and a paper on Long’s dresser.”

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Partridge, Samuel,
Freshwater, Charles,
Long, Edward,
Long, Elizabeth,
Hilson, George

THURLEIGH, stealing, household goods, publican