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Depositions and examination - Edward Osborn charged with stealing a cotton handkerchief from John Spring

12 November 1844

From: 1844 To: 1845

Samuel Rollings of Eaton Bray, labourer – on Monday 11 November he was at work for his brother John Rollings sowing tares. He had a dumpling, a piece of bread, and a piece of meat done up in a pocket handkerchief. He hung it up in a shed belonging to his brother where they roll whitening in the parish of Eaton Bray. When he came back he missed the bundle. He asked his brother’s wife whether she had taken it. She said she had not seen it. He told the policeman. The handkerchief now produced is the one his things were wrapped in. it belongs to his wife’s father John Spring, who left it at his (Rollings) home last Friday week. John Kitchener of Eaton Bray, police constable – on Monday 11 November Samuel Rollings told him he had lost a handkerchief with some victuals wrapped in it. Rollings said he had left it in John Rollings’ whitening shed. He saw Osborn go into the shed in the morning. He went after him and found the handkerchief now produced tucked down the leg of his trousers.

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Osborn, Edward,
Spring, John,
Rollings, Samuel,
Rollings, John,
Kitchener, John

EATON BRAY, stealing, handkerchief, food, police constable