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Depositions of Leonard Philip Banks, physician of Sharnbrook, Ebenezer Cain, Inspector of Police at Sharnbrook and Ann Sanders, wife of Thomas. In the case of Joseph Pugh accused of obtaining food and lodging to thevalue of 2 shillings and money to the sum of 3 shillings by false pretences.

24 January 1890

From: 1890 To: 1890

Ann Sanders: On Tuesday 7 January she went into the Railway Hotel for her supper beer and she saw the prisoner there. The prisoner asked her to take him in as a lodger until April. She told him she could take him but not for as long as that and he said he would go when she wanted him to. Before he went to bed he said he would give her 3 shillings a week for his lodging because he would want a little help. After she had consent to take him in, he told her he had a 16 shilling a week pension coming in from the railway company. He said he had come out of hospital at Bedford and the doctor had sent him to the country for the good of his health. He took supper before bed and she supplied him with food all the next day. On Wednesday he asked he to lend him 2 shillings to get a doctors certificate and asked where the nearest doctor lived. She lent him the 2 shillings and gave him an extra shilling and he left the house about 4pm and returned about 8pm. He said Dr Banks would not give him a certificate under 3s 6d and asked her to lend him another shilling, which she did. He told her his pension was coming the following morning to the station; a fortnights pay. He had his breakfast on the Thursday and then left saying he was going to the doctors again. He never returned. Leonard Philip Banks: a physician and surgeon practicing in Sharnbrook. He had never seen the prisoner before or given him a certificate. The prisoner had not applied to him for one. Ebenezer Cain: an Inspector of Police stationed in Sharnbrook. He apprehended the prisoner on 10 January at Yardley Hastings on a warrant. On being read the charge, the prisoner said he was very sorry and didn’t know what had made him do it. He conveyed the prisoner to Sharnbrook police station and searched him. He found nothing on the prisoner except a pair of spectacles. Statement of the accused: he left Bedford at 10am on Tuesday morning and it took him 6 hours to walk from Bedford to the village where the first station was. He tried to get a bed there and had eight pence in his pocket. He tried to get lodging at Oakley and could not so went on to Sharnbrook. He felt bad of the diarrhoea and that had made him do what he did. He intended to have gone to Blisworth and send her the money back. He should have found a friend.

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Pugh, Joseph,
Banks, Leonard Philip,
Cain, Ebenezer,
Sanders, Ann

SHARNBROOK, false pretences, , money, physicians, Sharnbrook Railway Hotel