QSR1854/4/5/23

Depositions of William Beach, police sergeant in the rural police at Great Barford and Eliza Daniels, wife of Caleb a labourer of Wilden. In the case of John Wilson accused of stealing 2 shoes.

18 October 1854

From: 1854 To: 1854

William Beach: from information received he apprehended the accused at Colesden in the parish of Roxton. The prisoner was asleep in a manger in a hovel in Mr Colegrave’s yard. He made the accused get up and found the shoes under his head. He asked the prisoner where he had the shoes from and he said he had found them. The prisoner was taken into custody. The prisoner then said he had bought the shoes off a man on the road for 9 pence and some bread and meal. Eliza Daniels: a servant living with Mr Chalk of Wilden. She had seen the prisoner in Mr Chalk’s yard begging but did not give him anything. She left him in the yard. A pair of shoes was lying in a covered passage leading from the kitchen to the scullery. She missed the shoes the next morning. The shoes produced by Beach were the shoes which she missed and they were the property of Mr Chalk. Statement of the accused: nothing to say.

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Wilson, John,
Beach, William,
Daniels, Eliza,
Daniels, Caleb,
Chalk

Great Barford, WILDEN, Colesden, stealing, shoes